Artsfest 2014

Events - April 5, 2014

03 Apr

Lower Gallery: Faculty and Students: Fables, Fairy Tales, and Physics

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 - Sunday, April 27th, 2014    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Butler faculty members Gautam Rao and Stephen Nyktas display works from their catalogues that relate to the Butler ArtsFest theme of Fables, Fairy Tales, and [...]
03 Apr

Upper East Gallery: Petronio Bendito—Color Code: Algorithms and Expressions

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 - Sunday, April 27th, 2014    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Petronio Bendito, Brazilian Intermedia Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Communications Design at Purdue University, explores computational processes to generate expressive color palettes while raising [...]
03 Apr

Upper West Gallery: Angela Lopez—Mythical States

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 - Sunday, April 27th, 2014    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The narrative watercolor and multimedia paintings of Chicago-based artist Angela Lopez explore power struggles and concepts of evil. Related events: Tibetan Buddhist Art, lecture by [...]
05 Apr

Composers’ Orchestra Workshop: Making It Up as You Go Along

Saturday, April 5th, 2014    
1:00 pm
An improvisational workshop for musicians and non-musicians using graphic notation. Open to young people and adults.
05 Apr

Bound by the Stories We Tell

Saturday, April 5th, 2014    
3:00 pm
Join Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, director of Butler's Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative, and a panel of artists, theologians, and historians, as they explore [...]
05 Apr

Tibetan Buddhist Art

Saturday, April 5th, 2014    
5:00 pm
Guest artist Jamyong Singye, former Tibetan Buddhist Monk and master painter of Tibetan art, discusses the tradition and technique of Buddhist art. More on art [...]
05 Apr

From Superstition to Science: Stories from the Sky

Saturday, April 5th, 2014    
6:00 pm
Chris Faesi, Butler University dance alumnus, and now, a doctoral candidate in astrophysics at Harvard University, reviews humankind's history of searching the sky for the [...]