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Friday, January 23, 2009
UTPAC names new director
Kathleen Panoff, director of the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond, has been named the director of the University of Texas’ Performing Arts, UT officials will announce later today.
Panoff replaces Pebbles Wadsworth who retired last year. Panoff will work part-time this spring with the PAC staff until she assumes full-time duties this summer. She has more than two decades experience as an arts administrator. In addition to having served as managing director of the Cincinnati Playhouse, she was a development officer for the Celebrity Series of Boston and WGUC-FM, Fine Arts Public Radio in Cincinnati and owned a private consultancy in fundraising.
A practicing flutist, she received her bachelor’s and masters in music from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
The UTPAC today re-opens its flagship venue, the Bass Concert Hall, after an 18-month $14.5 million renovation.
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Public tours of Bass Concert Hall scheduled
The University of Texas Performing Arts Center has just scheduled a pair of free public tours of the recently remodeled Bass Concert Hall.
2 p.m. Sunday, January 25
6 p.m.Tuesday, January 27
Tours last approximately 30 minutes. The front doors of Bass Concert Hall will be open approximately 30 minutes prior to each tour and tours will start promptly at the appointed times.
Bass Concert Hall Corner of 23rd Street and Robert Dedman Drive The entrance faces south, across the street from the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
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Texas art in the White House?
Could there be the work of a Texas artist in the White House?
Well, we don’t know. But we do know that President and Mrs. Obama have had a work by Texas photographer Keith Carter on display in their Chicago home.
A photograph published in the Time-Life’ book, ‘The American Journey of Barack Obama,’ shows the Obamas in their Chicago home during the presidential campaign. On a wall is a print of Carter’s photograph ‘Garlic.’ The 1991 photograph shows an African American woman who has just yanked a stalk garlic out of her Mississippi garden.
A longtime resident of Beaumont, Carter was named as a winner of the Texas Medal of Arts on Thursday. Ten books of his moody and enigmatic photographs have been published, three by the University of Texas Press. Carter’s work is included in the collections of institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others. In Austin, Carter is represented by Stephen L. Clark Gallery.
“Garlic” by Keith Carter. 1991.
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