Senior All-Star Show: Exhibition featuring the best of the best of graduating student work

From now until Tuesday, June 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street, the Program in Visual Arts is presenting an exhibition of work in a wide range of media by the Class of 2013 graduating seniors in the program. The exhibition, entitled Senior All-Star Show, features recent work by students completed as part of their senior thesis projects. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Special additional hours during Reunions Weekend are Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Inaugural Fellows in Creative and Performing Arts Announced: Danielle Aubert & Jason Treuting

Princeton University has announced the selection of the first two Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts, a new program of support for early-career artists funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Graphic designer Danielle Aubert and percussionist/composer Jason Treuting were chosen from a pool of almost 1,200 applicants to receive this award, created to provide artists who have demonstrated both extraordinary promise and a record of achievement in their fields with the opportunity to further their work while teaching within a liberal arts context. Fellows are selected for a two-year residency to teach one course each semester or, in lieu of a course, to undertake an artistic assignment. Aubert and Treuting will be full, active members of the University's intellectual and artistic community while in residence from 2013-2015.

Four Lewis Center Seniors Receive Fulbrights

Four members of the Class of 2013 graduating with certificates from Lewis Center programs were awarded Fulbright grants to study and teach abroad during the coming year. The recipients and the countries in which they will be studying and visiting are: Lily Akerman (Creative Writing and Theater) in Ireland; Courtney Crumpler (Dance) in Brazil; Audrey Hall (Creative Writing) in Argentina; and Eric Silberman (Creative Writing) in Poland. The Fulbright program was established in 1946 and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. The program provides funding for more than 1,500 American students to study, teach or conduct research abroad.

Win tickets to the Lewis Center's fall show, William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz

We would like to add you to our postal mailing list to potentially send you a preview of the Lewis Center's 2013-2014 season of exciting events, most of them free. Click here to submit your mailing address and be automatically entered in a drawing for two tickets to Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's classics directed by innovative theater director and Princeton alum Lileana Blain-Cruz. The show will be presented in early November at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Winners of the free tickets will be notified in early June.

Our weekly newsletter will go on hiatus for the summer, but we will be back in touch in September with an exciting new season. Upcoming highlights* for 2013-14 include:

• A stunning, innovative production of Shakespeare's classic Much Ado About Nothing in celebration of the Bard's 450th birthday, directed by Princeton alumna Lileana Blain-Cruz
  
• The Spring Dance Festival featuring new and repertory works by Bill T. Jones, Doug Varone, Rebecca Lazier, Tina Fehlandt and Hodder Fellow Pam Tanowitz
  
• Readings by Geoff Dyer, Richard Blanco, Jamaica Kincaid, David Ferry, Denise Duhamel, Teju Cole, Dana Levin, Claire Vaye Watkins, D.A. Powell and Ann Beattie
  
• A performance of Fred Ho's martial arts opera, The Further Adventures of Monkey, directed by Rebecca Lazier with fight choreography by Teake
• Exhibition by computer scientist and exuberant, self-identified amateur artist David Dobkin, Princeton's Dean of the Faculty
  
• Anton Chekhov's classic of the Russian stage Uncle Vanya, directed by R.N Sandberg
• Exhibitions and screenings of new visual artwork and films
• Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan's hit musical The Producers
• Henrik Ibsen's classic Hedda Gabler in an innovative, gender-bending interpretation directed by Tracy Bersley
  
• Tino Sehgal's performance installation "This Situation," following his recent performance commission at the Tate Modern in London
  
• Screening and panel discussion on To You, the Birdie (Phèdre), a film by avant garde artists company The Wooster Group
  
• Series of engaging presentations on Irish culture including fiction writer Kevin Barry, jazz singer Christine Tobin and Tony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh
• Neil Bartlett's adaptation of the Dickens classic Great Expectations
  
• I Was The Voice of Democracy, a solo performance by faculty member Brian Herrera
  
• The Greek tragedy Hippolytus with an original vocal score
  
• Performances by Shanghai Yue Opera Company in their adaptations of the Ibsen classics Hedda Gabler and The Lady from the Sea
  
• Showings of new work created in Princeton Atelier courses with best-selling author Meg Wolitzer and Suzzy Roche of the music group The Roches; with the groundbreaking theater group Elevator Repair Service; and with the hilarious musical theater improv group Baby Wants Candy
  

Watch your inbox in September for details on these and many more exciting events we are planning for you. Forward this newsletter along to friends and family so they don't miss out. Even better, encourage them to sign up for this weekly email reminder of the many activities offered each week at the Lewis Center!

*Events as currently planned and subject to change

The Lewis Center for the Arts encompasses Princeton University's academic programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts, as well as the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier. The Center represents a major initiative of President Shirley M. Tilghman to fully embrace the arts as an essential part of the educational experience for all who study and teach at Princeton. Over 100 diverse public performances, exhibitions, readings, and lectures are offered each year, most of them free. For more information about the Lewis Center for the Arts visit princeton.edu/arts.