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Ingrid Schorr
Program Administrator
Brandeis Office of the Arts
PO Box 549110/MS 051
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
781-736-5008

2008 Grant Awards

student paintingMore than 100 students and faculty will participate in 45 dance, music, theater and multidisciplinary projects at Brandeis during the 2008 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, sponsored in part through funding from the Office of the Arts. Grants are awarded to Brandeis undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff to produce innovative and artistic work that offer the Brandeis community opportunities to create, participate and learn about the arts. The jury evaluates applications on the quality and innovation of the project, and the potential for broad involvement of the Brandeis community during the festival.

The grant jury for the 2008 festival comprises Ingrid Schorr and Scott Edmiston of the Office of the Arts, Danielle Friedman '09 (Fine Arts), Monique Gnanaratnam (Intercultural Center), Stephanie Grimes (Student Activities), Molly Haas-Hooven '09 (Theater), Shawna Kelley (staff, Music), Adrianne Krstansky (faculty, Theater Arts), Lisa Lynch (Women's Studies Research Center), Scott Moerdler '08 (Fine Arts), David Rakowski (faculty, Music), Ellen Smith (faculty, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies), Matt Stern '08 (Music) and Joe Wardwell (faculty, Fine Arts).

Dance

  • Susan Dibble (faculty, Theater Arts) for a performance by the Brandeis Dance Collective.
  • Samantha Lakin '08 for "Improvisation Innovation," a tap performance improvised to live music.
  • Casara Nemes '08 for "Red," a modern dance performance.
  • Tzvetomira Kaltcheva (graduate student, Politics) for "Shopski Rhythms," a Bulgarian folk performance.

Music

  • The Irving Fine Society for Irving Fine, American Master, performance of music by Fine and undergraduate composers.
  • Mohammad Kundas '09 for a soundtrack recording for the documentary film, "Palestinians Inside Brandeis University."
  • Seunghee Lee (graduate student in Music Composition and Theory) for "Sounds and Images from Korea," a performance of contemporary Western and traditional Korean music.
  • Rebecca Lehmann '08 for the original musical "I Didn't Do It!"
  • Peter McMurray, Maxwell Dulaney and Christian Gentry (graduate students in Music Composition and Theory) for "BEAMS Electronic Music Half-Marathon," a performance of new works of electronic and electroacoustic music.
  • Avram Mlotek '09 for "The Niggun Remix."

Theater

  • Free Play Theater Cooperative for a performance of "Good."
  • Joshua Mervis '08 et al. for "Collaborative Theater Arts Thesis Project."
  • Rebecca Ramo '08 for the original performance, "What We Do in Our Spare Time."
  • Walaa Sbait '08 for "Journey into a Refugee Camp," an original performance.
  • Anthony Stockard (graduate student in Acting) for "King of the World," an original performance.

Visual Arts

  • Danielle Angel '08 for "Brandeisia," a multimedia exhibition.
  • Shirly Behar (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "The Castle," a site-specific sculpture.
  • Brooke Binstock '09 and Danielle Friedman '09 for "Take a Picture, Share a Secret," an interactive photography project.
  • Stephen Chow '09 for "Portraits of Brandeis Students."
  • Claudia Kaufman (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "Three Squares: 2008," a series of paintings.
  • Jessica Kent '09, Esti Schloss '09 and Tanya Fredman '08 for "I.F.," a site-specific sculpture.
  • Daniele Kohn '08 for "Sugar Cookies," an interactive sculpture.
  • Emily Leifer '10 for "Brandeis Museum of Contemporary History."
  • Esteban Longoria (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "One Month's Work at 157 Prospect Street," a series of paintings.
  • Sarah Lubin (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "Figures in a Landscape," a series of paintings.
  • Scott Moerdler '08 for the sculpture "Creative Growth."
  • Robert Moody (faculty, Theater Arts) for scene painting demonstration.
  • Aiko Nishioka '08 for "Paintings on Glass," a group project.
  • Rachel Pfeffer '08 for "Variations on a Theme," a reworking of a photograph of Leonard Bernstein.
  • Ryan Pressman (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "An Affair With Art," a series of paintings.
  • Carol Prost (M.A. Program in Cultural Production) for the sculpture, "Turbulence and Tenderness."
  • Nina Ragowsky '08 et al. for "Imagery," a group printmaking project.
  • Danielle Riechers (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "Celebrating OurSpace," a series of paintings.
  • Jenna Rosenbloom '09 and Nichole Speciale '09 for "The Not-So-Secret-Garden" installation.
  • Jillian Rubman '09 for "Beautiful Bodies," manipulated photographs.
  • Naomi Safran-Hon '08 for "Inside Out," a photographic installation.
  • Jill Seplowitz '08 for "Room for Pictures," an interactive photography project.
  • Rachel Silverman '08 for "The Art of Dance," a large-scale painting.
  • Ariella Silverstein-Tapp '09 for "Faces of TYP," a series of portraits.
  • Erin Soares '08 for an untitled sculpture.
  • Jenna Weiss (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for "Tesseract Triptych," a series of paintings.
  • James Wheaton (post-baccalaureate program in Studio Art) for an untitled painting.
  • Jonathan Zornow '08 for "Roboticelli: Fresco Painting Robot," a printmaking demonstration on modified ink-jet printer.