February 3, 2023
Hello, Everyone--
Look at what we can do! It feels as though we’ve just begun working together again this semester—here we are with mere weeks under our belts, and we’re already deep into study, deep into rehearsals and exhibition preparation, and even deep into production. Events in February allow us to show off our skills in myriad ways—highlights in each area of our department that will help us get through the bleakness of winter, and fuel our great march into Spring and the end of the academic year.
Administratively, we’re still in the ongoing process of re-grouping and re-aligning responsibilities within our internal DFPA structure—to that end, it’s my pleasure to announce that Noritaki Minami will serve as our new Director of Fine Arts, gradually assuming many of the responsibilities currently (and through the past fall) held by the Interim Faculty Coordinators in Fine Arts over the semester. Please join me in congratulating Nori in this new post, and in serving up ongoing thanks to the IFCs for their service. Nori joins our Advisory Council, currently made up of myself, Managing Director of the Arts April Browning, Director of Dance Sandra Kaufmann, Director of Music Rick Lowe and Director of Theatre Lee Keenan. Other members of the Advisory Council are the Director of Public Programming (currently vacant with Jennie Martin’s departure), Operations and Concert Manager Jeffery Hart, Administrative Assistant Patricia Moore and Office Assistant/Web Content Manager José Perez. We all look forward to functioning with full administrative structure. Not quite there, but getting there.
I encourage all of you to take advantage of any and all of the events highlighted below—support your friends and colleagues within your discipline—and perhaps treat yourself to an experience in one of the other areas. We have something for everyone.
Happy February!
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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.
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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.
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Faculty Development
As you make plans for academic conferences and other professional development activities in the upcoming year, please use this portal to access funding requests, both to CAS and to the DFPA.
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| 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!
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Enterprise Learning Hub
We'd like to encourage all Faculty and Staff, as part of your pre-semester preparation, to check in at the Enterprise Learning Hub, where lives access to any of the required online training sessions about which we often receive reminders or announcements. We ask you to keep up with those required sessions, and complete them in timely fashion so we don’t have to track you down (knowing that the ultimate penalty for non-compliance is removal from email and university systems). I hope we will be able to continue to benefit from the information we get from these relatively painless obligations.
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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.
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Syllabi & Office Hours
Our department is required to have a copy of each of the syllabi of courses being taught at the beginning of the semester. We have prepared some guidance on assembling your syllabi here.
Plan to meet in your class during your scheduled final exam time. If it is not permissible to give final exams during the last week of classes. Be sure to include your final exam time on your syllabus. For classes that do not begin on the typical class grid, follow the final exam time over which your class falls. Please do not use the “other” category. If you are still confused as to when your final is to be scheduled, reach out to Mark Lococo ( mlococo@luc.edu).
Additionally, all faculty are expected to post and hold office hours weekly. If you are teaching less than 3 credits, it should be one hour a week, more than three credits at least two hours a week. Please submit both your syllabi and office hours by February 10, using this form.
If you have key concerns: part time faculty please contact Patricia Moore (pmoore2@luc.edu), full time faculty member please contact Jeff Hart (jhart5@luc.edu).
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Student Juried Exhibition
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Image: Callie Bergeron, The Box
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Exhibition: February 3 - March 3, 2023
Reception: February 10, 5PM-7PM "FNAR Fest"
Ralph Arnold Gallery
For over 25 years the Annual Student Art Competition has showcased the best student work being created at Loyola. Students from all majors have been invited to submit artwork created in the last year for consideration by this year’s juror, artist, writer, and curator Matt Morris. From a strong pool of submissions, Morris has selected the most outstanding works based on their level of originality, thoughtfulness, and skill. The best of these submissions are represented in this exhibition, where the most exceptional artworks will be honored during the reception on February 10th with first, second and third prizes. Our students bring a variety of talents and ideas to this exhibition: visitors can expect to see painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, graphic design, and interesting combinations thereof. The Student Art Competition gives Loyolans the opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional gallery as part of an exhibition that celebrates the creativity and talent on our campus.
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Come for the 2023 Student Juried Exhibition and stay for FNARFEST '23, our annual Fine Arts community celebration. Meet and connect with Fine Arts students and faculty, and learn more about the Fine Arts at Loyola.
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Tuesday, February 14 | 7:00PM CT
Skowronski Music Hall
The Music Program's artist-in-residence for the spring 2023 semester, Kaoru Watanabe, will present a recital.
The solo performance features taiko drums, shinobue flutes, and vocals, mixed with electronic loops and samples as Watanabe explores the dual uses and meanings of the piece's title—burning and calming, smoldering and healing, provocation and release—as they relate to personal ritual, social conflict and rising above the tumultuous moment. Developed during the pandemic and premiered live at Joe’s Pub in NYC, Watanabe has since performed the work at Dartmouth College, Lincoln Center, as well as excerpts of the project at Hirshorn Museum, Centre Musique de Monde in Montreal, Antenna Cloud Farm in Gil, MA and elsewhere.
To read more about this performance, please visit Kaoru Watanabe's website.
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February 23-26
Thu, Fri & Sat at 7:30PM CT |Sat & Sun at 2:00PM CT
Newhart Family Theatre
Written by Jane Austen
Adapted by Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin | Directed By Jonathan Wilson
Jane Austen’s celebrated romance takes center stage in Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Marriage awaits all the Bennet Sisters, but Lizzie adamantly despises the most eligible bachelor in Hertfordshire – or does she? Experience the best of Austen’s comedic wit and Regency gossip in this tale of enemies-to-lovers. With extended focus on economic class, social hierarchy, and the novel’s beloved femme-identifying characters, this classic brings the best of its period to the 21st century.
The Newhart Family Theatre features an Open Captioning system. Audience members who wish to use this feature should select rows C, D, or E, seats 305 and up.
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Saturday, February 25 at 12:00PM CT
Sunday, February 26 12:00PM CT
Palm Court - Mundelein Center
Celebrating the senior dance major class of 2023 with solos performed by internationally acclaimed choreographers, culminating in an ensemble work in collaboration with the dancers and Senior Showcase Artistic Director, Sarah Cullen Fuller titled “Requiem.” Join us in celebrating our graduating seniors!
Tickets are selling fast and the performance will sell out. This is a show you do not want to miss. Reserve your seats today!
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Regular Building Access
Here is the building access information that we have confirmed with Campus Safety. For more information on building access policy, please visit the Our Spaces page on the DFPA website.
Mundelein Center Regular Building Hours
- 7:00am-10:00pm: Monday-Friday
- 7:00am-7:00pm (Campus Safety unlocks/locks the doors)
- 7:00pm-10:00pm (Loyola ID card access)
- 7:00am – 10:00pm: Saturday (Loyola ID card access)
- 9:00am-10:00pm: Sunday (Loyola ID card access)
Ralph Arnold Annex Regular Building Hours
- 7:00am-10:00pm: Monday-Saturday (Loyola ID card access)
- 9:00am-10:00pm: Sunday (Loyola ID card access)
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CAS Dean’s office has Moved
Reminder that the CAS Office moved from Sullivan Center to the 4th Floor of Cuneo Hall over the winter break.
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Room Usage Guidelines
With the large number of shared academic spaces in the DFPA it is especially important that we all contribute to their upkeep. To that end, please comply with the following Room Usage Guidelines. These guidelines and standard layouts are posted on the wall in most of our shared academic spaces.
- Use only dry erase markers on the whiteboards.
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Clean up the room, including the whiteboards. Place all trash in receptacles, food and drink containers should be put in the main hallway receptacles.
- Do not add/remove furniture or equipment to/from the room without permission. A room inventory is posted in most shared academic spaces.
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Rearranging furniture and equipment within the room is permissible, but the room should be returned to its standard layout at the end of use. A standard layout is posted in most of our shared academic spaces.
- Room schedules are posted outside most of our shared academic spaces. Please vacate the space in a timely fashion in order for subsequent events to begin on time.
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If a piano is present, do not set anything on the piano; keep liquids away from the piano; and do not unplug the piano from the wall socket.
- Food is not permitted in Music Studios or Practice Rooms.
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Service Requests
It takes a village to keep our facilities in good working order. If you notice something in need of attention by the Facilities Department, please file a Service Request. Anyone with a UVID and password can submit a Service Request. You can file a Service Request via this link, or by visiting the Facilities Department website and clicking on “Service Request” on the left-hand side of the screen. There is also a handy how-to video on this page. If you are in a hurry, you can also visit the Mundelein Center Info Desk and ask the attendant to submit a Service Request.
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Mark E. Lococo, PhD
Professor, Chair
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Loyola University Chicago
mlococo@luc.edu
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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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