51st Annual Jazz Festival ConcertWednesday, May 6, 20207:30 p.m.Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

The Visual and Performing Art Department’s Music Program, in conjunction with the Creative Arts Committee and the Office of student Life and Leadership Development, will hold its annual festival in May. Great national, regional, and local musicians have performed with MCC’s Jazz Ensemble and various small-group student combos in the past. This coming year will feature several guests, including Will Zimmer, Eric Metzgar, Doug Stone, Vince Ercolamento, Ron D’Angelo, and Oliver Haynes, among others to be determined.

11th Annual Madrigal FeasteFriday, December 6, 2019 | 6:30 p.m.R. Thomas Flynn Campus CenterForum, 3-130

Come one, come all! See and hear the spectacle of the Renaissance through music and drama. Tickets: $20 available at www.monroecctickets.com

Instrumental and Vocal ConcertsInstrumental and Vocal Concert

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.The Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

Instrumental ConcertWednesday, December 4, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.The Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

Vocal ConcertWednesday, December 11, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.The Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

Instrumental and Vocal ConcertWednesday, March 11, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.The Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

Vocal ConcertWednesday, May 13, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.The Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts BuildingMCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

Spring ProductionBeyond the HorizonBy Eugene O’Neill

Friday, March 27, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.Saturday, March 28, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.Sunday, March 29, 2020 | 2:00 p.m.Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts Building MCC Theatre, 4-141$10 public $8 Students/Faculty and Staff

Beyond the Horizon tells the story of brothers Andrew (a farmer) and Robert (a poet). While Andrew plans to inherit the family farm and stay on the land, Robert—now recovered from a lengthy illness—will set sail with his uncle, and venture throughout the world. But before he leaves, Robert discovers his love for Ruth Atkins—a woman the families assumed would marry Andrew. Caught by love, Robert stays to farm while Andrew ventures to the sea. Three years later, Andrew returns to a farm in ruins, his father dead, and Ruth bitter. While fully intending to fix his family, Andrew is called away and returns five years later to a farm even more desolate and in despair. Written in classic Eugene O’Neill style, Beyond the Horizon explores the bonds of brotherhood in the face of all adversity, even until the very end.

Children’s PlayThe Velveteen RabbitBy Todd Hatlem

Thursday, May 21, 20206:00 p.m.Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts Building MCC Theatre, 4-141Free and Open to the Public

This heartwarming adaptation of Margery Williams’ classic children’s story shows how the power of love brings about remarkable transformation for an ordinary toy bunny. With a dash of nursery magic, ordinary toys come to life and mute the boundaries between what is real and imaginary.

to another special season of creative arts programming at Monroe Community College. The primary mission of MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is to develop a student-centered learning initiative that combines a holistic approach to the arts with the educational mission of our institution. We invite you, your family, and your friends to come and enjoy the rich cultural experiences that these events provide. Members of the Rochester community are always welcomeat MCC events. Ticket Information: Tickets for specific programs are available online at www.monroecctickets.com; at the Brighton Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3; or at the Downtown Campus Bookstore. For further information, call the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development at 585.292.2534.

Parking for MCC Events:We have two kiosks on campus, one located on the sidewalk area of Building 4 near the Theatre and another located near Building 10, the Samuel J. Stabins Physical Education Complex. At these pay-by-plate kiosks, you can register your license plate and pay $5.00 in cash, Visa® or Mastercard®. Once the vehicle is registered at the pay-by-plate kiosk, the vehicle can park in any of the 11 student lots for the entire day until midnight. Parking is also available in the visitor lot (V) and at the parking meters located near the Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts Building (Building 4). The meters hold a maximum of two hours and the cost is $.50 per hour. Reserved parking is available in designated parking lots for evening programs. For directions to the Brighton Campus, go to www.monroecc.edu/go/maps.

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THEATRE

A Key Bank Rochester Fringe Festival PresentationOz and Effects Written by MCC Alumnus Tyler Wolff

Saturday, September 14, 2019 | 2:30 p.m.Sunday, September 15, 2019 | 4:00 p.m.School of the Arts Black Box Theatre,45 Prince Street, Rochester, NYrochesterfringe.com$10.00

This twisted tale visits the land of Oz after Dorothy leaves. Witness the dark, unforeseen lives, actions, and struggles of the Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man once they have come to terms with having been granted their prospective desires.

Fall MusicalA Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman Music and Lyrics by Steven LutvakBased on a novel by Roy Horniman

Friday, November 22, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.Saturday, November 23, 2019 | 7:30 p.m.Sunday, November 24, 2019 | 2:00 p.m.Robin and Tim Wentworth Arts Building MCC Theatre, 4-141$10 Public$8 MCC Students/Faculty and Staff

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs. When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he’s eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D’Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and so sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Murder isn’t the only thing on Monty’s mind…

Visiting Poet: t’ai freedom ford

Reading and Book SigningThursday, October 3, 20197:00 p.m.R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Warshof Conference Center, Monroe AFree and Open to the Public

Poetry Workshop Friday, October 4, 201912:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.Building 8, Room 200Free and Open to the MCC Community

t’ai freedom ford is a New York City high school English teacher and Cave Canem Fellow. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in the African American Review, Apogee, Bomb Magazine, Calyx, Drunken Boat, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Kweli, Obsidian, Poetry, Tin House, and others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color. Freedom ford’s first collection, how to get over, won the 2015 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize published by Red Hen Press. In 2018 she won a Face Out Emerging Writers Award from the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses. She lives and loves in Brooklyn where she is an editor at No, Dear Magazine.

Visiting Fiction Writer: Brian Wood

Fiction Reading and Book SigningThursday, November 14, 20197:00 p.m.R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Warshof Conference Center, Monroe AFree and Open to the Public

Fiction WorkshopFriday, November 15, 201912:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.Building 8, Room 200Free and Open to the MCC Community

Brian Wood holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University. He has served as the Managing Editor of Reed Magazine, as well as Fiction Editor for POST. His work earned him a Ludwig Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing, as well as James Phelan Awards for Short Fiction and Familiar Essays. Most recently, Wood’s story collection Joytime Killbox was a finalist for the BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize. He also has ghostwritten five published books.

Visiting Artist: Ernest Mellas MCC Emeritus Professor of Biology

Marine Life Imagery-PhotographyBuilding 12, Hallway Art CasesMarch 2–April 26, 2020

Visiting Artist: John PerryLower Deck Card Series Artist Lecture:Building 12, Hallway Art Cases Thursday, October 17, 2019October 14–December 13, 2019 10:00 a.m. 12-228 Free and Open to the Public

John Perry has recently been exploring old trading cards as blank canvases to manipulate. His cards range from zombies to superheroes, cartoon characters, to nostalgic characters from the past. In this latest endeavor, Perry has established a brand called Lower Deck Cards and has over 100 designs completed that were painted directly onto the trading cards themselves. Perry is a 16-year veteran art teacher in the West Irondequoit School District.

Visiting Artist: Gerry SzymanskiHistoric Photography Collection Artist Lecture: “The Democratic Image: Building 12, Hallway Art Cases Collodion in Ante-bellum America” September 2–October 11, 2019 Monday, September 16, 2019

4:00 p.m. 12-211 Free and Open to the Public

Gerry Szymanski is a commercial and fine art photographer who specializes in portraits. Honored thrice with City Newspaper’s Best of Rochester Local Photographer award (2010, 2011 and 2012), he is a familiar presence in Rochester’s musical and visual arts circles and has photographed for the Eastman School, the George Eastman Museum, and Hedonist Chocolates and Ice Cream. His portraiture, food photography, and environmental retail images have appeared in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, City Newspaper, Rochester Business Journal, Country Living, and Downbeat, among other publications. Trained in music and library science, Szymanski is an adjunct professor in the Eastman School of Music’s Department of Musicology where he manages the 100,000-item collection of sound recordings at the Sibley Music Library.

Visiting NonfictionWriter: Jaquira Díaz

Reading and Book Signing Creative Nonfiction WorkshopThursday, February 27, 2020 Friday, February 28, 20207:00 p.m. 12 noon–12:50 p.m.R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Building 8, Room 200Warshof Conference Center, Monroe B Free and Open to theFree and Open to the Public MCC Community

Jaquira Díaz is the author of Ordinary Girls, a memoir, and I Am Deliberate, a novel, both forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She’s the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and The MacDowell Colony. Her work appears in The Best American Essays, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The FADER, Longreads, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and others. Díaz teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and is a Consulting Editor at the Kenyon Review.

Visiting Playwright: Nathan Yungerberg

Reading and Book Signing Playwriting Workshop Thursday, February 13, 2020 Friday, February 14, 2020 7:00 p.m. 12 noon–12:50 p.m. R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Building 8, Room 200 Warshof Conference Center, Monroe B Free and Open to the Free and Open to the Public MCC Community

Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include Esai’s Table, The Son of Dawn, Pousada Azul, Orchids and Polka Dots, Seven Pools of Lebanon, and Isosceles. His work has been developed or featured by The Cherry Lane Theatre (2017 Mentor Project with Stephen Adly Guirgis), Roundabout Theatre Company, The Playwrights’ Center, JAG Productions, Crowded Fire Theater, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, The Lark, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours in Harlem, Climate Change Theatre Action, The National Black Theatre, The August Wilson Red Door Project, The Bushwick Starr, and BBC Radio Afternoon Drama. Yungerberg is one of seven black playwrights commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments which was published by Samuel French. His awards and honors include the 2016 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semifinalist), Ken Davenport 10-Minute Play Festival (Winner), 2019 Djerassi Resident Artist, and 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence.

44th Annual Student Art ExhibitionMay 8–June 5, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, from 6:00 -8:00 p.m. A Backyard Barbecue • Awards and Dinner at 6:00 p.m.

This exhibition features the work of the 2020 Visual Arts graduating students, The William H. Lagerway and Faith Prather Endowed Scholarship for Students in Photography, and the 34th League for Innovation National Student Art Competition Representatives. Music is provided by the MCC Jazz Ensemble.

THE WALL PROJECTThe Wall Project is an area in the Building 4 corridor near the North Atrium and Mercer Gallery. Its dimensions are 12 feet x 20 feet. This project commissions artists from the MCC community and/or the greater Rochester area. Potential artists or groups of artists can submit proposals, which are now being accepted.

DIRECTOR’S CHOICE Director’s Choice includes eight showcases measuring 67.5” long x 34.5” wide x 5” deep and are located on the first and second floors of Building 12. Artwork displayed in these cases is part of a curated exhibition of the Mercer Gallery. Please submit proposals for a potential artist or artists.

The Sixth ActFormed in 2004, The Sixth Act provides co-curricular support for the study of drama across disciplines at MCC. To this end, The Sixth Act (1) develops co-curricular events and materials for MCC faculty and students, especially those who might teach or study plays or playwriting, and (2) provides enrichment opportunities to encourage all MCC faculty, students, and staff to see and talk about plays produced at MCC and in the Rochester area. The Sixth Act seeks as its leaders faculty, staff, and students drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and departments. The Sixth Act is supported by MCC’s Creative Arts Committee and School of Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information, see http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/sixthact/?a-zindex or contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@monroecc.edu.

2019-2020 Special ProjectsThe Sixth Act will continue to develop curriculum-support materials and post-production talk-backs for both VaPA’s and Geva’s 2019-2020 seasons in an effort to encourage faculty across MCC to teach these plays in their individual courses and to enrich this process for all involved.

The Sixth Act also will continue to develop Drama on Demand, now as a Video Library. This popular program features web-based, filmed versions of VaPA students performing scenes from published plays so these scenes can be used as co-curricular tools across campus.

13th Annual Sixth Act Student Playwriting CompetitionThursday, May 7, 20207:00 p.m. Black Box TheatreReservations Required

This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, provides MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, offers winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed as staged readings with an eye towards future play development, and furnishes VaPA students with the opportunity to participate in the new-play-development process. Three winning playwrights receive cash prizes. One winning playwright also will have his/her play submitted to a nationwide competition. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.

Brian Cirmo: An Assembly of MemoriesFebruary 27–March 26, 2020 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 275:00–7:00 p.m.

For the past two decades, Brian Cirmo has traveled throughout the country visiting museums, large cities, small towns, national parks, civil war battlefields, assassination sites, graveyards, and national monuments. He is also a lifelong student of American music, as well as a glutton for American history, literature, western painting, film, comic strips, and cartoons. According to the artist, “These interests and practices are harvested and used within my process to create an intertextuality in the paintings.” Using western painting, literature, popular culture, personal memories, and personal aesthetics as sources, Cirmo’s paintings encapsulate and examine characteristics of the human condition, such as life and death, love and loss, evolution and creationism, comedy and tragedy, fame and anonymity, conflict and harmony, and morality and immorality. Cirmo lives and works in Albany and Syracuse, New York, and is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Onondaga Community College.

Donald Owen Colley April 2–April 30, 2020 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 25:00–7:00 p.m.

In 2012, as one of Faber-Castell’s celebrated instructors, Donald Owen Colley led an illustrated road trip across America, which covered 11 cities where he held drawing and illustration demos using Faber-Castell products. For this exhibition of his numerous sketchbooks and drawings, Colley will conduct workshops and artist talks throughout the week. The artist has been exhibiting paintings, prints, and sketchbooks in earnest since 1983. According to Colley, “I am now, after a couple decades of pondering societal woes and coulrophobic parallels, working primarily on visual journaling, urban sketching while returning to a nomadic lifestyle as pencil salesman. While in Rochester, he plans to attend a Red Wings Baseball game to sketch the players in action.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 21st Annual Otis Young Motivational Speak-off

Saturday, May 2, 20209:00 a.m.–NoonMCC Theatre, Brighton Campus, Building 4, Room 141Free and Open to the PublicParking in Lot F

This annual event provides students the opportunity to further develop their public speaking skills. To prepare for this event, students participate in an Honors course in which they develop, revise, and rehearse an original five-to-seven minute motivational speech.

Bake-Off/24-Hour PlaySaturday, October 5, 20197:00 p.m.Forum, R. Thomas Flynn Campus CenterFree and Open to the Public

MCC students will meet in The Forum at 7 p.m. on Friday, October 4, to begin the process of creating a series of short plays from nothing. Twenty-four hours later, those plays will be ready for an audience. Come laugh, cry, and celebrate the magic of co-curricular, interdisciplinary collaboration at its most immediate.

Commanding Space, Reading and Conversation Friday, March 20, 202012 noonBlack Box TheatreFree and Open to the Public

Commanding Space: The Rise of Annie Easley and the Centaur Rocket tells the story of Annie Easley’s early years at NASA as a human computer during the Space Race and the Civil Rights Movement. Join us for a reading of this compelling, lyrical play, followed by a conversation with the playwright, Stephanie Leary, who was born and raised in Rochester, New York. Leary rediscovered her love of writing while attending Monroe Community College and discovered her love of plays while reading Fences as a student at SUNY Brockport. She obtained her MFA in playwriting from Goddard College and was commissioned by Syracuse Stage to write Commanding Space as part of their Backstory program.

Annie Easley

Marilyn Anderson November 7–December 12, 2019Opening Reception: Thursday, November 75:00–7:00 p.m.

Marilyn Anderson will exhibit her relief prints, drawings and photographs. Several examples of textiles by Mayan women weavers will be included. This work focuses on the rich Mayan-Guatemalan arts and craft tradition. Based on years of residence, research and documentation, it graphically celebrates different aspects of a wide array of artesian activities. Anderson has exhibited her prints, drawings and photographs in New York City; Washington, DC; Mexico City; and Guatemala City; among others. She also has received three NEA awards. Her book Guardians of the Arts/Guardianes de las Artes will be available for purchase at the opening.

Judy and Kurt FeuerhermJanuary 21–February 14, 2020 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 235:00–7:00 p.m.

Judy Feuerherm’s career spans 40 years of diverse experience including painting conservation, art gallery and real estate development partnerships, journalist and editor, corporate leadership and training and coaching. Judy maintains a painting studio where she explores her interests in abstracting aerial land formations and her love of profuse flower arrangements, whether in her garden, in vases throughout her house, or on canvas. A trained journalist as well as fine artist, she has been featured in numerous Rochester-area shows. According to Judy, “My acrylic collages are inspired by the beauty of color, shape and form in the floral world.”

Kurt Feuerherm’s art focuses on the abstraction of nature-related subjects. His landscape paintings and collages are influenced by his lifelong curiosity about nature and his exposure to varied geographic areas of the world. His ceramic creatures—birds, snakes, dogs, and anteaters—reveal his irrepressible sense of humor and his fascination for animals and their behavior. Kurt has traveled extensively in the US, Mexico, the Caribbean islands, and Europe. From that travel and his close observation of the natural world, he has produced a body of work that bridges media, techniques, and forms, just as it reflects the images and nuances of many topographies and cultures. According to Kurt, “The artists I admire include Joan Miro, Saul Steinberg, Ronald Searle, Wilhelm Busch and Joseph Herriman.” He is a retired professor of Art at Empire State College, State University of New York, and has taught in Florence, Italy. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. His paintings have been selected for juried exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His one-man exhibits throughout the U.S. have included galleries in Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, Buffalo, and Wellfleet.

Mercer GalleryFine Arts Building 12, Room 114

Gallery Hours:Thursday / 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Friday / 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.Winter Recess, Spring Recess,

and Summer Session Hours: Closed

Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director585-292-2021 or 585.292.3121email: kfarrell@monroecc.edu

Parking for Art Opening Receptions is free in Lot F. Parking is otherwise available in visitor parking (Lot V)

or meters.

This non-profit gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the Office

of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC

Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic

Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Alliance of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.

MYSTERY VIDEO HOURVideo Dailies, Fine Arts Building, Mercer Gallery, 12–114, Brighton

Campus. Art and Artist video viewing with introductions and discussion. Have an idea, a video, or animation and want to be part

of this? Submissions of original work are welcome.

GENERAL NOTESFor more specific information about Mercer Gallery events, proposal

applications, up-to-date Internal Combustion Events, workshops and Mystery Video Hour schedules, call, write or stop by the gallery.

Mitch Messina and Lynn DuganCoalesce

August 26–September 26, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 55:00–7:00 p.m.

Coalesce is the shared layering of similar narrative content, personal aesthetic, and visual complexity between two artists working with the figure. After exchanging rudimentary sketches, each artist developed individual interpretations of the other’s drawings, letting the work coalesce and evolve from the combination of distinct elements. Messina and Dugan have exhibited their work both nationally and regionally at various galleries and museums. They have had numerous solo and group shows and have conducted workshops and lectures. This is their first collaboration.

Alumni Photography ExhibitionDepth of Field

October 3–October 31, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 35:00–7:00 p.m.

Alumni Weekend Gallery TalkSaturday, October 5 2:00 p.m.

Curated by Associate Professor Jason Flack, Depth of Field celebrates the work of five MCC alumni photographers. Emily Baker (class of 2013) specializes in food photography. Anthony Bristol (class of 2013) specializes in Sports Photography and NASCAR racing. 2012 graduate Zachary DeClerk works in Photojournalism. Malorie DePerna, from the class of 2011, pursues Fashion Photography, and Donald Hyatt, from the class of 2011, explores Fine Art photography.