Creative Misuse
Center for Italian Opera Studies Receives Five-Year Grant
The Center for Italian Opera Studies (CIAO) received a five-year grant from the Packard Humanities Institute to produce critical editions of Works of Gioachino Rossini in collaboration with Bärenreiter-Verlag and develop the database OperaCat.
Gray Center to Continue Bold Collaborations Between Artists, Scholars
In its first three years, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry has made possible everything from a conference featuring the world’s leading cartoonists in dialogue with each other and a cross-section of faculty; to a monthlong alternate reality game involving students, a professor of English and an experimental phenomenologist from Montreal; to a yearlong collaborative exploration of low-level light undertaken by a distinguished physicist and an award-winning architect.
Joan Harris One of Three Arts Leaders With UChicago Ties to Receive National Medal of Arts
President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Arts to three arts leaders with University of Chicago ties, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today.The honorees are longtime University supporter and arts patron Joan Harris and architects Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, who designed the University’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. The ceremony will take place on Monday, July 28 at the White House.
Chute Goes 'Outside the Box' in New Book on Contemporary Comics
Since joining the University of Chicago faculty in 2010, Hillary Chute quickly established herself as the campus’ resident comics expert. In addition to co-teaching a course on comics and autobiography with famed cartoonist Alison Bechdel, Chute organized a conference through the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, which brought together the world’s leading cartoonists for three days of public conversation.
