Trinity University is pleased to present its Spring 2022 Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, which brings to campus a distinguished array of outstanding leaders in the fields of art, music, drama, communication, literature, art history, and aesthetics. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit Trinity’s events calendar.
The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series is made possible by an endowment gift from Jane and the late Arthur Stieren of San Antonio.
Meet Trinity’s Spring 2022 Stieren guest artists.
Marnie Weber
American artist Marnie Weber is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, film, video, sculpture, collage, music, and costuming. Her work has been exhibited internationally including recent survey exhibitions in France and Switzerland. Weber will offer a public lecture to the campus and San Antonio communities, followed by the opening reception for her corresponding gallery exhibition in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery.
This survey exhibition of collage work spans 30 years and features Weber’s resplendent, uncanny worlds that conflate the imagined and the sentimental. Tenaciously realized, her mixed-media collages are carefully staged and colorized dreamscapes inhabited by a wondrous roster of anthropomorphs and archetypes. Unreal Paradise takes us on a journey through absurd landscapes with the allure of desire, magic, and loss. The art of collage is a fundamental part of Marnie Weber’s studio practice.
Thursday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m., Stieren Theater
Opening Reception for Unreal Paradise: Collage Works from 1992-2022
Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m., Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery
Art Exhibition: Unreal Paradise: Collage Works from 1992-2022
Exhibit runs Feb. 18 - March 26 in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 1-5 p.m.
Guest Artist Film Screenings:
- Wednesday, March 2: Marnie Weber, The Day of Forevermore, 6 p.m., Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
- March 11-27: Marnie Weber, The Cabin of Mothra Crone, virtual via viewing portal on @neidorffgallery on Instagram
- Wednesday, March 23: Mike Kelley, Day is Done, 6 p.m., Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
- Saturday, March 26: Marnie Weber, The Day of Forevermore, 1 p.m., Ruth Taylor Recital Hall
Concert featuring Sinfonia Spirituosa
Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Parker Chapel (in person) and Tiger Network (virtual livestream)
Baroque chamber orchestra Sinfonia Spirituosa will offer master classes, lectures, lessons, and chamber music coaching for students in the Department of Music from Feb. 19-22. The residency will culminate in a concert collaboration with the Trinity University Chamber Singers in a performance of Delalande’s grand motet, De profundis clamavi, under the direction of Gary Seighman, director of choral activities.
Concert Program:
- Michel Richard Delalande: De profundis clamavi
- François Couperin: La Sultane
- Georg Philipp Telemann: Sinfonia Spirituosa
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: Instrumental music from Dardanus, Castor et Pollux, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Boréades, and Platée.
A Public Lecture by Paul C. Taylor: “Dark Futures: Against the Aesthetics of Racial Innocence”
Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m., online only (registration required)
Paul C. Taylor is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University. He received his undergraduate training at Morehouse College and his graduate training at the Kennedy School of Government and at Rutgers University. Taylor’s research focuses primarily on social philosophy, critical race theory, American philosophy, and Africana philosophy. His books include On Obama and Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, which received the 2017 monograph prize from the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA). He has recently launched the Racial Justice Humanities Lab at Vanderbilt and assumed the ASA vice presidency.
Toi Derricotte: A Reading with Commentary
Tuesday, April 19 at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall (Chapman Center)
Internationally acclaimed poet Toi Derricotte will read and discuss her work in this public reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Toi Derricotte is the author of “I”: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award; The Undertaker’s Daughter; Natural Birth; Tender, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Captivity. She is also the author of The Black Notebooks, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2019, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The Paris Review, and many others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Derricotte is professor emerita at the University of Pittsburgh.
Spring Choir Concert featuring Ēriks Ešenvalds
Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Parker Chapel
The combined Trinity choirs will perform works by Ēriks Ešenvalds, including a world-premiere of “Tonight” composed specifically for the choirs. In residence at Trinity as a guest speaker and visiting artist from April 27-29, Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent. After studying at the Latvian Baptist Theological Seminary and the Latvian Academy of Music, he was a member of the State Choir Latvija. In 2011, he was awarded the two-year position of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Ešenvalds has won multiple awards for his work and undertakes many international residencies working on his music and lecturing.
Ešenvalds’ recent premieres include Lakes Awake at Dawn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Whispers on the Prairie Wind for Utah Symphony and the Salt Lake Vocal Artists, St Luke Passion for the Latvian Radio Choir and Sinfonietta Riga, the major multimedia symphony Nordic Light in the U.S., Canada, and Germany, as well as commissions from the BBC Proms, Gewandhaus Leipzig, and Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. His full-scale opera, The Immured, premiered at the Latvian National Opera in 2016 to great acclaim. In 2018, his second major multimedia symphony, based on volcanoes, premiered.
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