MARCH 2022 EVENTS AND EXHIBITS AT SMU’S MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND MEADOWS MUSEUM
Find out what's happening in March at Meadows!
G. William Jones Film & Video Collection Vault Tour
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
3:00 p.m.
Hamon Arts Library – 6100 Hillcrest Ave, Dallas, TX 75205
FREE
Curators in the G. William Jones Film & Video Collection will conduct tours of the film vault, highlighting the 16mm and 35mm films in the collection, as well as the Gene Autry Films, WFAA, KRLD, and KERA collections of newsfilm. Online registration is required.
Liudmila Georgievskaya: Solo Piano Recital
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Award-winning Russian pianist Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya presents a solo recital program featuring Romantic era piano masterworks. Dr. Georgievskaya has performed as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. She combines a busy performance schedule with teaching classes at the Meadows School and applied piano at the University of North Texas. To learn more about Dr. Georgievskaya, visit https://www.liudmilageorgievskaya.org/. For event information, call 214.768.2787.
Exxon Mobil Lecture Series: Nick Vlahos, CEO, The Honest Company
Thursday, March 3, 2022
6:00 p.m.
Angelika Film Center, Mockingbird Station, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln., Dallas (75206)
FREE, but reservations are required
Please join the Temerlin Advertising Institute as we host Nick Vlahos, CEO of The Honest Company, for a night of networking, nibbles and insights. The Honest Company was launched in 2012 with the mission to inspire everyone to love living consciously. Nick has been responsible for overseeing significant growth and innovation within the company over several years, even taking it public. Come get to know him at the 2022 ExxonMobil Lecture Series hosted by TAI. To RSVP, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-honest-company-ceo-leading-with-purpose-and-building-a-modern-brand-tickets-244041774517. For more information, call 214.768.2000.
Meadows Choral Concert: Renewal
Thursday, March 3, 2022
7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, 1835 Young St., Dallas (75201)
FREE
Join the Meadows choirs for a concert that honors the resiliency and imaginative powers of the human spirit. In lieu of admission, please make a donation to Phoenix House (either in person at the concert or online at www.phoenixhouse.org). For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Gallery Talk
Ignasi Aballí, Artist
Friday, March 4, 2022
12:15 p.m.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE with museum admission: $12 for adults; $10 for seniors; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students
Meadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local guest speakers. For tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meadows-museum-timed-ticket-entry-tickets-108139261442. For more information, call 214.768.8587.
Meadows Museum Exhibition: Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight: Ignasi Aballí
March 6 – June 26, 2022
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mon.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$12 for adults; $10 for seniors 65+; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students; FREE Thurs. after 5 p.m.
The Meadows Museum presents an exhibition of work by the Spanish conceptual artist Ignasi Aballí (b. 1958), the first artist selected as part of the MAS: Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight program. Established in 2019, MAS is a six-year partnership between the Meadows Museum and Fundación ARCO, the leading organization behind Spain’s premier contemporary art fair, ARCOmadrid. Aballí’s series Palabras Vacías (Empty Words) (2020) confronts the viewer with 27 individual, galvanized iron plates hung at eye level. Cut into the metal plates are words such as “INVISIBLE” and “ABANDONED”—and other adjectives that reference being invisible or forgotten—thereby imbuing the negative space with meaning; what he refers to (both literally and figuratively) as “empty words.” The resulting tension between the form and meaning of the words creates a dialogue between language and image, between signified and signifier. For more information, call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meadows-museum-timed-ticket-entry-tickets-108139261442?.
Meadows Museum Exhibition: Masterpiece in Residence: Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber
March 6 – June 26, 2022
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mon.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$12 for adults; $10 for seniors 65+; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students; FREE Thurs. after 5 p.m.
This spring the Meadows Museum launches the “Masterpiece in Residence” loan series, an exciting new loan program featuring singular masterpieces of Spanish art from American collections. The series offers a special, focused look at key works from the history of Spanish art, with each loan accompanied by a scholarly monograph featuring a single essay by a specialist in the field. The first painting in the series is Juan Sánchez Cotán's Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber (c. 1602) from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art. The extraordinary work is among the earliest and best of its kind in the history of European art, the type of painting credited with defining a genre, and among the last paintings executed by the artist before he took monastic orders in 1603. For more information, call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meadows-museum-timed-ticket-entry-tickets-108139261442?.
Chamber Music Masterworks with Carol Wincenc
Sunday, March 6, 2022
2:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit https://bit.ly/SMUMeadowsLive.
FREE
Legendary flute soloist Carol Wincenc joins Meadows students in a program of chamber music treasures. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
William O’Neil Lecture in Business Journalism: Susanne Althoff, author of Launching While Female
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
5:30 p.m.
Crum Auditorium – Collins Executive Education Center, 3150 Binkley Ave. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The lecture will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit http://j.mp/oneilzoom22.
FREE
Susanne Althoff, associate professor at Emerson College and former editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe Magazine, is the author of the recently released book Launching While Female: Smashing the System That Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back. Althoff interviewed more than 100 founders from across the country to investigate the obstacles women and nonbinary entrepreneurs—especially those of color—face when launching, funding, and growing their companies. The William J. O’Neil Lecture Series in Business Journalism brings outstanding business journalism professionals to the SMU campus each spring. It is part of a cooperative program in financial reporting developed in 2007 by the Meadows School Division of Journalism and the Cox School of Business at SMU, through funding from William J. O’Neil, an SMU alumnus and chairman and CEO of Investor’s Business Daily. For more information, call 214.768.1915.
Debussy “Fêtes with Friends” Faculty Chamber Music Recital
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit https://bit.ly/SMUMeadowsLive.
FREE
Piano professor Carol Leone will be joined by Meadows faculty Aaron Boyd, Catharine Lysinger and Jonathan Jones as well as special guests Regan Smith and others for a recital of ravishing chamber works by Claude Debussy. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Lyric Theatre
The True Story of Cinderella by Warren Martin
Thursday, March 10, 2022
7:30 p.m.
O’Donnell Hall – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
So, you think you know the story of Cinderella? Well, think again! This slightly fractured musical comedy fairy tale, written to be performed “oratorio style,” is full of whimsy, elegance, wit and more than a few unexpected twists that will surprise and delight you! For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Lecture: Kept in Suspense: The Enduring Thrill of Sánchez Cotán
Michael Brown, Associate Curator of European Art, San Diego Museum of Art
Thursday, March 10, 2022
6 p.m.
Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium - Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Event will also be livestreamed.
$10; free for museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
This lecture focuses on the painting Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber (c. 1602) by Juan Sánchez Cotán (Spanish, 1560–1627), from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art. Brown’s talk explores new avenues of thought from the points of view of Spanish agricultural innovation, Iberian cultural diversity, and the artist’s brilliant squaring of theology and science. The painting’s own history is one marked by intrigue and suspense, from its perilous transatlantic crossing in the early 1800s to its serendipitous survival during a catastrophic house fire. The painting has been captivating audiences and inspiring contemporary artists since its arrival in the United States in 1816. For in-person tickets, visit this link. For virtual tickets, click here. For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Virtual Lecture Series: “Art History After Hours”
Art of the pre-Columbian Americas, part I
Thursday, March 10, 2022
9-10 p.m. CST
Zoom webinar lecture series; advance registration required.
FREE
The SMU Meadows Department of Art History presents a late-night e-Lecture covering a light and engaging topic. Join Guggenheim Fellow and The Emily Rich Summers Endowed Professor and Chair of Art History Adam Herring, Ph.D. for an exploration of Machu Picchu, the enigmatic masterpiece of Inca civilization. The free, 45-minute lecture will be presented live via Zoom, with a brief question and answer session following. Register for the eLecture. For more information, email meadowsalumni@smu.edu.
Meadows at the Meyerson
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
8 p.m.
Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St., Dallas (75201)
$25 for adults, $20 for seniors, $17 for students/faculty & staff
($10 discount available for subscribers)
The 29th annual benefit concert for SMU Meadows will feature the critically acclaimed Meadows Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Paul Phillips, in the presentation of two symphonic masterpieces by Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms. The first half of the concert features the Suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose Cavalier), a comic opera that was a runaway hit when it debuted in 1911 and remained the most popular opera during the composer’s lifetime. The beautiful, waltz-filled music evokes the romance, intrigue, comedy and melancholy of the story about an older woman who ultimately helps her youthful lover find happiness with the young woman he loves, while thwarting the odious older man also pursuing the maiden. Following intermission, the orchestra will present Brahms’ powerful Symphony No. 4, the composer’s last symphony and the one many consider his greatest, with a tragic character underlying its warmth and beauty. Proceeds from the event support the Meadows Impact Scholarship Fund, which provides vital financial assistance to promising Meadows undergraduate and graduate students. For information on event sponsorship, call 214.768.4189, email meadowsgiving@smu.edu, or visit smu.edu/meyerson. To buy tickets, visit https://bit.ly/MeadowsTix. For additional information, call 214.768.2787.
Spring Dance Concert: The Dance Fabric of Dallas
March 23-27, 2022
8 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun.
Bob Hope Theatre – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The Wednesday and Friday performances will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit https://bit.ly/SMUMeadowsLive.
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
The Dance Fabric of Dallas is the Meadows Spring Dance Concert, featuring the work of three local dance artists whose individual work represents the core of the of Dallas dance. The concert opens with a work by Joy Bollinger, artistic director for Bruce Wood Dance, titled A Winter’s Day, which uses music from 60s, 70s, 80s to explore the Vietnam War, cyclical nature of time, cultural shifts and searching for change. It will be followed by a piece by Zack Ingram, founder and artistic director of 6 o'Clock Dance Theatre, titled Journey. The concert concludes with new work by Michelle Gibson, choreographer/arts activist in the dance conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, titled Pan…Them…Ic. This experimental piece deals with the global pandemic and focuses on the use of dance and art to heal.To buy tickets, visit https://bit.ly/MeadowsTix. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Division of Art M.F.A. Qualifying Exhibition
March 26 – April 9, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 26, 1-5 p.m.
1:00 – 5:00 p.m. daily
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 N. Central Expressway, Dallas (75206)
FREE
This 2022 M.F.A. thesis exhibition is the culmination of two years of intensive work by M.F.A. candidates in the Division of Art and features works in a wide-ranging variety of styles and mediums. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit https://pollockgallery.art.
SYZYGY: Now(ish)
Monday, March 28, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Join SYZYGY, the contemporary music umbrella of SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, for a grab bag of contemporary music. Led by director Lane Harder, this concert will demonstrate an immense range of expression through diverse styles and instrumentation. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Marmen Quartet Recital
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
For more information, call 214.768.2787.
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Pollock Gallery Exhibit: James Sullivan | thinking sculpture
February 12 – March 12, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb. 12, 1-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: 1-5 p.m. Mon., Wed. and Fri.
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 N. Central Expressway, Dallas 75206
FREE
This exhibition honors the teaching and artistic legacy of Emeritus Professor of Sculpture James Sullivan. Sullivan joined the SMU faculty in 1988 and retired in 2020. He served as chair of the Division of Art for 16 years and received multiple University awards for teaching. He also served as a visiting artist at universities around the globe and was a visiting critic in drawing at the Yale School of Architecture for 18 years. He has been featured in more than 50 group and solo exhibitions regionally and internationally, from the Meadows Museum in Dallas to Amerika Haus in Berlin, and his work is included in museum, corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. His sculpture is centered on the body, portraying the figurative image as well as using objects to create abstractions of bodily forms, spaces and experiences. Much of his recent work has been developed in digital form, using CAD systems and 3-D printing as well as industrial fabrication. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit https://pollockgallery.art.
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Hawn Gallery Exhibit: Narrative as Reality: A World Reimagined/ Selections from the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection
February 17 – May 22, 2022
Hawn Gallery – Hamon Arts Library, 6100 Hillcrest Ave. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
A glimpse into works from the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family collection reveals an artistic world of hope, Black joy, reality and aspiration. Each composition within the collection offers a unique story. These non-linear narratives on the Black experience, with their own distinct actualities, exhibit a reality not often portrayed, yet a collective lived experience that strives to represent a livelihood untouched. Narrative as Reality: A World Reimagined presents the work of artists Dominic Chambers, Ryan Cosbert, Robert Hodge, Nelson Makamo, Delita Martin, Sungi Mlengeya, Mario Moore, Robert Pruitt, Athi-Patra Ruga and Ferrari Sheppard. Artist as storyteller and aesthetic elegance collide in this breathtaking collection of work that showcases a world where narratives hold power and imagery conveys truth. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Valerie Bennett Gillespie. For more information, call 214.768.3813.
Meadows Museum Exhibition: Murillo: Picturing the Prodigal Son
February 20 – June 12, 2022
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mon.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$12 for adults; $10 for seniors 65+; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students; FREE Thurs. after 5 p.m.
During the 1660s, Sevillian artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) set out to paint the biblical parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11–32). Many artists tackling this subject focus on the story’s conclusion—that is, the prodigal son’s return from squandering his inheritance to be welcomed by his father’s forgiveness rather than his wrath. Murillo’s depiction, however, draws out the drama into a narrative cycle of six large canvases. Remarkably intact as a group centuries after their production at the height of the artist’s career, and having recently undergone conservation that reveals the mastery of the artist’s technique, the series makes its U.S. debut at the Meadows Museum, marking a rare opportunity for American audiences to view an important painting series by Murillo in its entirety, as it was meant to be seen. For more information, call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meadows-museum-timed-ticket-entry-tickets-108139261442.