Mid-Summer Newsletter

July 13, 2023

Greetings—

I hope you’re enjoying the season, wherever you are. It’s been quite a summer in Chicago already—where else can you experience a world class NASCAR race through and around streets we often travel, effects of wildfire smoke from Canada, and localized flooding from forced reversal of the Chicago River due to intense and concentrated rainfall, all in one week?

Even while things might have slowed down somewhat academically, we’re still actively engaged in the DFPA office, busy with the never-ending cycle of planning, producing and reflecting on our work. This summer, the DFPA Academic Program Review will transition into development of a departmental strategic plan, after meetings with CAS leadership and the Provost. We are in process (with the appointment of a university project manager) in the repurposing of MUND 708 for Photography, as well as the re-location of Art History classes to MUND 203. We continue to move forward proposals to renovate/restore Rooney Hall (MUND Aud) into a state of the art performance facility more hospitable for our programming, and to re-activate LUMA with an increased DFPA engagement and presence in that high-profile space.

And as we transition into the 2023-24 Academic Year, I’m most pleased to show the fruits of SOME our labors (multiple searches in both FNAR and MUSC) over the past semester, with new faculty:

Dongryul Lee, DMA, will join us as Assistant Professor of MUSC-Composition and Theory

JaNae Contag will start in August as Lecturer in FNAR-Photography and Video art

Gina Hunt will move from Instructor in FNAR to Lecturer in FNAR-Drawing, Painting and Printmaking

Josh Cook was appointed to ongoing Lecturer status in FNAR-Visual Communications

Colin Holman was appointed to ongoing Lecturer in MUSC-Music History and Orchestra

And joining us as Assistant Professor of FNAR is Fr. Jonathan Harmon, S.J. an additional faculty member joining us from the Jesuit Community.

With all these exciting changes in the mix, we’re doing our best to update LOCUS class assignments, so I advise you to review your fall schedule, and report any errors to your area director and Patricia Moore.

And we will celebrate some additional transitions:

Betsy Odom has been promoted to Senior Lecturer in FNAR. Many congratulations to Betsy for this much-deserved promotion.

Jessica Gondek has retired as Associate Professor of FNAR after 27 years as a faculty member at LUC, and Professor Jonathan Wilson has retired after 47 years and more than 50 productions at LUC. Join me in celebrating both of their long tenures at LUC, and their myriad contributions to our Department, to generations of students, and to the field in general.

Breaking news: November 5-18, CAS/DFPA will host Alexander Chitungu, a Zimbabwean sculptor, who (per the Dean’s office) will “give student and faculty-facing guest lectures and demonstrations and take part in other Loyola events, such as a reception in his honor.” We look forward to keeping you abreast of details concerning this visit as they take shape. And, Chicago playwright and solo performer Rohina Malik will be joining us as our annual Artist in Residence beginning in January, 2024.

When we come back in August, we’ll have much more news to report, and an active Strategic Action Plan under way for targeted activity through the Fall. I know you’ve all been up to some extraordinary activity over the summer, which I look forward to hearing about and seeing. Full time faculty should be on the lookout for an email from me later in the month with information regarding upcoming annual faculty assessment; in the interim, please note the links below where you can update your DFPA profile page, and/or submit items for DFPA marketing and promotion. Please, all FT DFPA Faculty and Staff be on the lookout for updated information (I hope to tempt you with food and some interesting activity in a surprise location) and agenda for our first meeting of the academic year on Friday 8/18/23 from 10-1.

Friends, enjoy the remainder of July—and refresh yourselves as you begin to prepare for another year in art and academia!

Faculty Action Items

Fall 2023 Faculty Adoptions

Fall registration is open, and the bookstore is accepting your list of required materials. Once adoptions are received, your list will be posted on LOCUS/bookstore site for students to see and materials will start to be sourced.

Adoptions are due ASAP.

Please see the flyer to the right for information regarding submitting adoptions.

For questions, please contact Lisette Martinez, Course Materials Manager by email at lmartinez13@luc.edu, or by phone at (773)508-7350.

Part Time Faculty Contracts

ATTENTION ALL PT FACULTY, (Adjunct, 1-year contracted faculty or regular instructors): All contracts should appear within the next two weeks. If you do not receive an anticipated contract, or receive a contract with errors, please inquire by email with Patricia Moore (pmoore2@luc.edu) and April Browning (abrowni@luc.edu).

Office or Course Supply Request Form

As a faculty, staff, or student working for the department, use the Office or Course Supply Requisition form for to request office supplies from Warehouse Direct or as a faculty member who is not a departmental Procard holder to request faculty or student supplies for a course. If you have questions about the form, you can reach out to DFPA@luc.edu. The main office handles the placing of orders and the follow up with requestors.

Enterprise Learning Hub

UPDATE: the Enterprise Learning Hub has updated and opened all required training courses for faculty and staff, and require their completion by Friday, September 29, 2023. To avoid the inevitable harassment we receive by non-compliance, I advise you to complete them prior to the start of the semester.

Updated Contact Information
It is important for a variety of reasons that we have your updated home phone and address while we are working remotely, please  complete this form  to update our records. Thank you!

12th Floor Printer/Copier
All papers left on the copier in the 12th floor breakroom are placed in the black "In Tray" on the shelf above the copier. If you are looking for documents you left on the copier, please look in the "In Tray". The tray will be emptied every two weeks. Also, please remember to lower the lid on the copier if you use it to prevent dust buildup and/or accidental scratches on the glass.

Faculty  Profile Updates
If you do not currently have a faculty profile on the DFPA website or would like to update your profile, please  complete and submit the  Biography and Headshot Form  . Faculty pages are among the most frequently visited pages on our website.  Students  often  look up faculty when they’re shopping for classes so it is important to keep your profile current.  

DFPA Marketing Item Form
The DFPA is accepting promo item/story leads on an ongoing basis. Please complete the new streamlined form to submit an item. Submissions can be of recent, upcoming, ongoing, or future events, research, engaged learning, publications, outstanding student work, student achievements, alumni events, collaborations and partnerships, social justice activities, professional/academic recognition, etc.

Access & Resources

Summer Building Access

During the summer, regular building hours are reduced:

7:00am – 6:00pm | Monday - Friday

9:00am – 6:00pm | Sunday

Unless there are specific University-supported events scheduled, all academic buildings generally lock around 6:00pm during the summer. If there are any events running later than 6:00pm, the building stays open for that event. Exterior doors may be locked during building hours over the summer months, but faculty, staff, and eligible students can swipe into buildings using their UVIDs.

Campus Construction Updates

St. Ignatius sculpture plaza – Construction fencing has was placed on site on June 30 between Cudahy Science and Cuneo Hall. We will be performing site work until July 27, at which point we will pull the construction fence north closer to Cudahy to open up the east-west sidewalk between Cudahy and Cuneo to reconnect the east and west quads. We will pause work and wait for landscape and hardscape materials to arrive at the beginning of October. Starting October 5 we will begin landscaping the plaza and will install the St. Ignatius sculpture in time for the plaza to be re-opened for Alumni Weekend.
Cudahy stormwater management project – This project remains on schedule, and we have begun backfilling and re-paving the north-south pathway between Norville and Dumbach, which will re-open by July 17 and restore that north-south pathway through campus.
Alfie/Gentile paver installation and landscaping – Around July 17, we will be closing the path between Alfie and Gentile to install pavers, extend the TV truck pad, and install landscaping. This space will be open by August 15.
Piper/Coffey/Mundelein plaza – This project remains on schedule as well, and this email serves as a reminder of what the site condition will look like at the start of the fall semester. Please see below. The final pathways between Piper Hall and the oval plaza will be open, as well as temp pathways between the oval plaza and Mundelein so that pedestrians can circulate through that space. But the oval plaza and site surrounding it to the west will remain closed while completing landscape and hardscape installations through the fall semester. This space will not be reservable in the fall semester.

Mark E. Lococo, PhD
Professor, Chair
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Loyola University Chicago
mlococo@luc.edu

\\ STAY INFORMED //

For academic inquiries, contact the DFPA office: 773.508.7510 or DFPA@LUC.edu

Box Office: 773.508.8400 or BoxOffice@LUC.edu

Loyola University Chicago / Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, Suite 1200

1020 West Sheridan Road, Chicago IL 60660

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