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International
Arts Programs
Faculty International Activities
The faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts travel internationally,
presenting at conferences, conducting scholarly research, and exhibiting or
performing. Recent travels include:
Dr. Simmons
works with two students in France. |
Summer 2006
For the third consecutive summer, Dr. Seymour Simmons and
Dr. Peg DeLamater, both in Art and Design, traveled to France to teach a summer painting and art history
program for Winthrop students and faculty. The group stayed in Normandy at a
private château in Meuvaines and in Paris and visited other towns and sites in
those regions. Professor Peg DeLamater also visited arts collections
in London and Cambridge England. Additionally,
Professor Simmons was in France
on a sabbatical during the 2004-2005 academic year. |
Fall 2005
Winthrop University Galleries Director Tom Stanley traveled to
South Africa as a guest of the South African Department of Arts and Culture as
part of an exchange in Winthrop's South by South Africa project.
2004
Professor Jim Connell,
Art and Design, was resident ceramic artist in China over the
summer in 2004 – in
Shanghai and in Jingdezhen, China’s porcelain capital. He was in
Jingdezhen during a celebration of 1,000 years of porcelain production.
Professor Phil Moody and
Associate Professor Marge Moody,
both in Art and Design,
took a research trip to Italy where Professor
Moody photographed a textile in Anghiari, Tuscany.
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Bruce Thompson, Music, and Sharon
Thompson, Kaleidoscope Arts Camp, attended the
National Horn Society conference in Spain.
Additionally, Dr. and Mrs. Thompson have traveled to Iceland, Sweden,
Thailand, and Ireland. Dr.
Thompson enjoys
a refreshment in
an Iceland ice hotel -
a hotel made entirely of ice! |
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Dr. William Malambri,
Music, traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to conduct The Admiralty Russian Navy Band in
concert in Shlstakovich Hall. Professor Malambri also took a research trip to
Italy to research the use of music to increase nationalism during the Mussolini
era.
Dr. William Malambri, was also a guest clinician
and conductor for a symphonic band in Seoul, South
Korea. And he conducted
extensive research into World War II-era Italian martial music in Italy
in Fall 2005.
Dr. Bill
Malambri with
Commander Alexei Karabanov,
commander and conductor of the
Russian Admiralty Navy Band and
Malambri's host while he
was in Saint Petersburg. |
Dr. Jeannie Woods,
CVPA Associate Dean and Professor of Theatre, taught for Semester at Sea
on the 2004 voyage and circumnavigated the globe, traveling to Cuba, Brazil,
South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, South Korea and
Japan. Dr. Woods also went to China as a Guest
Artist at the Shanghai Theatre Academy in summer 2005.
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