Featured Guests
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk, is a 21st century “renaissance artist” living in New York, NY. A pioneer in interdisciplinary performance for over 40 years, Monk has been a two time recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant and was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ms. Monk will present a solo concert performance of original compositions for voice and piano on Thursday, March 19th, 7:30 pm in the Brendle Recital Hall of the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University. She will also deliver the closing keynote address on Friday, March 20th.
http://www.meredithmonk.org/
David Edwards
David Edwards, Scientist, writer, entrepreneur and Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University. Edwards started two companies and patented nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs through the lungs. He credits his artistic pursuits with enabling him to approach problems in novel ways.
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/%7Ededwards/
Abigail Child
Abigail Child is a film and video maker whose work in montage and sound/image relations pushes the envelope of film/video with humor and ephemeral beauty. Her films explore mixed genres and strategies for rewriting narrative, as well as investigating public space through memory and history.
http://abigailchild.com/
Josh Frieman
Josh Frieman's primary research is in cosmology – the study of the Universe as a whole and its history since the beginning – especially the formation of large-scale structure and the interplay between cosmology, particle physics, and astrophysics. Current research interests include the analysis of large-scale structure in galaxy surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Frieman is a member of the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Fermilab, which has close connections with the cosmologists and theoretical astrophysicists at the University of Chicago where he is Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the College.
http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/joshua-a-frieman.shtml
Emil Kang
Emil Kang is Executive Director of the Arts at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill after serving as President and Executive Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) as well as positions with the Seattle Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL). In leading Carolina as a ‘creative campus’, he is also known as a national leader and advocate for the arts and their crucial importance in today’s world. Kang is also Professor of the Practice of Music and co-teaches courses in artistic entrepreneurship and the creative process.
http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/
