Feingold

David Feingold, chair of the Music Department at Western Washington University, will play with the Skagit Symphony in the group’s Masterpiece Conert at 7:30 p.m. March 14. The concert will take place at McIntyre Hall in Mount Vernon.

Feingold, a composer as well as a guitarist, has established a unique sound among nylon string guitarists with a blend of Flamenco in his writing.

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Milica Jelaca Jovanovic

Milica Jelaca Jovanovic, an assistant professor of piano at Western Washington University, will give her faculty recital at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.

She will perform works by Bach, Schubert, Liszt and Schumann.

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Photo courtesy of Ray Wolpow | WWU

A young Noémi Schönberger, second from left, poses for a family portrait with her mother, father and younger sister. Her mother, sister, infant brother, and 18 other members of her family perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

"My Name is Noémi," a film biography of Holocaust survivor Noémi Ban by Western Washington University associate professor Jim Lortz, will have its debut screening at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at WWU's Performing Arts Center Mainstage.

Begun by Lortz almost three years ago as a sabbatical project, "My Name is Noémi" tells the story of 86-year-old Noémi Schönberger, who was taken, along with her mother, grandmother, younger sister, and baby brother Gabor, who was only six months old at the time, from her home in Debrecen, Hungary, to the infamous Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Her mother, grandmother, sister, baby brother and 18 other members of her immediate family never left the camps. Samu, her father, was sent to a forced-labor camp, but survived the war; he would later change his last name to Gabor in honor of his infant son.

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Leverett

Herschel Victor Leverett III, a Bellingham native, costume designer and teacher, passed away from complications of congestive heart failure Aug. 18, 2008. He was born on Feb. 1, 1937. Victor is preceded in death by his mother Lillian (Osdahl) Leverett, his father Herschel Victor Leverett Jr. and his brothers John Roberson Leverett and James Hirman Leverett. He is survived by his sister-in-law Susanne Leverett, his favorite nephews and many great nieces and nephews.

He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Western Washington University in 1961, then earned his teaching certificate from WWU in 1963. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan and at Washington State University, where he earned his master’s degree in speech and theatre in 1973. He completed his professional internship at the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company.

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Amundson

Western Washington University Associate Professor of Art Garth Amundson's new exhibition, "Sub-divisions," is on view at South Seattle Community College's Art Gallery through Aug. 15.

The show was completed in collaboration with Canadian artist Pierre Gour, and investigates the themes of domesticity, immigration and national identity. The exhibit is composed of separate photo-based Mexican landscapes of incomplete houses under construction called obras negras (literally "black works"), contrasted with appropriated vintage images from advertisements of the idealized American home.

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Every spring, the Center for Instructional Innovation publishes a new online edition of its Innovative Teaching Showcase, detailing the innovative teaching practices of several Western Washington University faculty members.

Visit the center in College Hall Room 310 at any time between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. June 3 to learn more about the Web publication, meet the featured instructors, connect with colleagues from across campus and share some refreshments while watching some of the videotaped instructor interviews on a large screen.

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Hutchinson

The Western Washington University Dance Program will present a reconstruction of Susan Marshall's seminal work "The Most Dangerous Room in the House" as part of its annual faculty dance concert May 8-11 in the Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre.

Susan Marshall, an internationally renowned movement artist, has received both a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship in recognition of her achievements as an American choreographer. "The Most Dangerous Room in the House," which premiered in 1998, examines the inner life of a woman through layers of memories, thoughts and fears. It explores the need to ascertain control in one's life and to protect ourselves as well as those closest to us.

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Western Washington University is offering a summer art and art-history program that will take participants on a 20-day tour of Japan.

The summer program, which is open to the public as well as WWU students, will be taught by Assistant Professors Julia Sapin and Seiko Purdue from WWU's Department of Art.

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Thomas Schlotterback, a professor emeritus in the Art Department at Western Washington University, has been notified that his drawing “Old Clown Balancing: With Yoyos” has been accepted for inclusion in the Northwest Art Center 37th annual Americas 2008: Paperworks exhibition.

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The office of the vice provost for research at Western Washington University has released the list of recipients for teaching grants for the summer of 2008. They are:

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The office of the vice provost for research at Western Washington University has released the list of recipients for research grants for the summer of 2008. They are:

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Western Washington University's Rosemary Vohs, a faculty member at Woodring College of Education, Grant Donnellan, a faculty member in the music department, and Jill Whitman, also a WWU music department faculty member, are performing in a local Christmas production along with other talented musicians.

There is only one more local production remaining in the 2007 NOEL! concert series. It's at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, in the Bellingham High School auditorium. Tickets ($15 for adults and $10 for students) are available at Village Books, Community Food Co-op and at the door.

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