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Distinguished Guest Lecture and
Performance Series
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The Arts Institute has recently sponsored appearances by Dr. Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Internationally known sculptor Rodney Carroll whose Flight of Enlightenment was installed on the Rockville Campus in 1993.
The Arts Institute sponsors on-campus programs in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Distinguished Chamber Music Series.
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The Arts Institute facilitates Art Internships at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, and other museums.
The internships are open to all Montgomery College students enrolled full-time and who have an arts-related major. In order to qualify students must have completed 24 arts-related credits and have achieved a 3.2 GPA. Students awarded the internship will enroll in the Arts Internship class, AR 295, a three-credit MC course. Please note that the internship offerings vary from semester to semester and are based on the participating intuitions requirements and internship opportunities. The deadline for fall applications is mid-April and for spring mid-November. For more information please contact Professor Krueger at: david.krueger@montgomerycollege.edu.
2010 Fall Internship
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Arts Institute Study Abroad
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The Arts Institute sponsors scholarship study abroad for exceptionally talented MC arts students. Eight outstanding students worked in Italy in 2006, and 13 followed in 2007. For 2008, The Arts Institute provided art study abroad scholarships for nine students and two faculty to study and learn in Tibet and China.
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Study Abroad on YouTube "China: From the Silk Road to 798 Art Zone" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyvcm-7NpiA
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The Arts Institute initiated the highly successful co-sponsorship of Rep Stage’s professional production of Santaland Diaries at TP/SS in January, 2007, and repeated with a co-sponsorship of Thom Paine, April, 2008.
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Portraits of Life II
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Portraits of Life: Student Experiences
On October 15, 2008, the exhibit "Portraits of Life: Student Experiences" will open in The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafrtiz Foundation Arts Center. This remarkable show is a tribute in words and photographs to student experiences of resilience, transformation and inspiration.
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The Arts Institute helps make possible more than 50 events annually in the World Arts Festival produced by Professor Dawn Avery.
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“Creating Community” was the college-wide arts them for 2008-09. Conceived by arts faculty from all three campuses, this theme, like “Ryhthm and Blue” in 2007-08 and “ In Time and Space” for 2009-10, the college-wide theme provides opportunities for inter-campus arts communication and cooperation and inspires creativity in the development of exhibits, concerts, dance works, and plays.
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The Arts Institute facilitates special exhibits at MC, such as the “Morris Yarowsky (1933-2006) Selected Works” exhibit the works of Mary Donner, "Middle School Diversity in The Arts," and others.
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The Classical Theatre Forum is a program that immerses
students in the performance and study of enduring works by William Shakespeare. Guest actors, directors, designers, and other theatre
professionals work directly with students at each of the College’s
campuses. WILLPOWER
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Distinguished Master
Class Series
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The Distinguished
Master Class Series brings acclaimed arts professionals to the College to
work directly with students, introducing them to different perspectives, cutting edge
techniques, creative approaches, and to exciting, current developments in
the arts. Working with and learning from experts, students make important
vocational contacts and have opportunities for professional networking.
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Artists-in-Residence Program
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This program provides for a sustained period of time during
which arts professionals actively engage in comprehensive arts-making
processes while observed, studied, and queried by students throughout the
entire creative period.
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Supporting the Arts at MC
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Contributions to support the Arts Institute may be made to the Montgomery
College Foundation, Inc., a registered 501 © (3) charitable organization.
For further information, please contact Susan Dankoff , Director of Development, 240-567-7493.
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