Sunday, February 27, 2022

The Winter Series of 'A Life in the Arts'

February 2022

We’re thrilled to announce the roster of our winter series of interviews for ‘A Life in the Arts,’ where we interview people who’ve dedicated their lives to the arts in various capacities. 



Our winter series offers a wide range of remarkable guests. Here’s the schedule: 

  •  Monday, February 28, 2022: Tlisza Jaurique - Tlisza Jaurique is a Mexican/Latinx multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. She uses her inherited indigenous upbringing and aesthetics intertwined with her background in Philosophy as a foundation for her artistic practice.She has a B.A. in Philosophy from Vassar College. She has a Master’s in Art Education from ASU and continued with her Doctoral studies in Education in Curriculum/Instruction. She teaches, lectures and builds curriculums in Studio Art, Art History, Philosophy, World Religions and History with special emphasis on Native American Cultures, past and present. She has consulted, exhibited, lectured and worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (she was the first Mexicana/Xicana to exhibit at the Met), David Rockefeller Center for Latino Studies at Harvard, the Latino Cultural Center at Yale University. She received the prestigious Community Scholar Award from the Smithsonian Native American Awards Program at the National Museum of Natural History. She was a resident scholar and visiting artist for the Southwest Borderlands Initiative Chicana/o Studies Department at ASU. She received the Artists’ Fellowship Grant. In 2020 she was the recipient of the NDN Collective Artist Grant and the United States Artist Grant. 
Later this year she will be exhibiting with fellow artist Marcus Zilliox at Unison Arts in New Paltz ( https://www.unisonarts.org/) 
  •  Monday, March 7, 2022: Michael F. McBride and Samuel Roberts - Michael and Samuel are married performers who met during their tenure as principal artists at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Both continue to create and perform - exploring new genres working as freelance artists.
For more information about Michael, see: www.michaelfrancismcbride.com. For more information about Samuel, see: www.samuelleeroberts.com
  •  Monday, March 14, 2022: Betsy Jacks — Betsy is the Executive Director of the Thomas Cole Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and has been responsible for elevating awareness of the founder of America’s first art movement internationally, while ensuring his legacy remains vibrant and relevant today. 
  •  Monday, March 21, 2022 Wayne Walters — Singer, Teacher, Composer, Conductor — Wayne’s contributions to music are extraordinary. Somehow he also managed to found the Morris Choral Society (www.morrischoralsociety.org )over forty years ago, touring the world and conducting for this group as recently as last December. 

About ‘A Life in the Arts’ 
 'A Life in the Arts' is a Zoom series celebrating those who have committed their lives to excellence in the arts. Our hope is that this series also illuminates how to navigate a career in the arts to up and coming artists. Interviews are conducted by Masterwork Board member Joseph White and run a half hour, with fifteen minutes dedicated to a q and a with attendees. Join us - or watch our sessions on the Masterwork Youtube Channel!  

About Masterwork Arts  
Masterwork Music & Art Foundation was founded more than 60 years ago in Morristown, New Jersey. The Founders, Shirley May and David Randolph, were passionate about the arts and understood the importance of nurturing developing artists, and making the arts available to a broad audience. Generations of artists were influenced by the years of concerts, theatrical events and fine arts projects Masterwork Arts funded and produced.   Today, Masterwork Arts supports excellence in the arts through a variety of grant offerings and awards, a zoom series on 'A Life in the Arts' and virtual classes that are open to all. To find out more, sign up for our enewsletter on www.masterworkarts.org.

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