"The Cookie Jar," a photograph by YSU art department faculty member Joy Christiansen Erb, is among the featured work in the Biennial Faculty Exhibition that opens this week in the McDonough Museum of Art. An opening reception will coincide with the annual Mad About The Arts event, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at the museum. See News Brief below for more details.

Below are a variety of items about upcoming events and other news notes on the campus of Youngstown State University:

• McDonough Museum features faculty artwork
• UNC prof lectures on 'Factories and Steel Workers'
• Shakespearean comedy performed in Ford Theater
• World–renowned type designer visits campus
• WInd/Percussion Invitational set for Friday
• Dana Orchestra plays tonight at DeYor
• Fishbone is 'Thomas Entrepreneur' Feb. 23 and 24

Calendar
Monday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m. YSUÕs Dana Symphony Orchestra perform a concert in the Ford Family Recital Hall at the Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion, DeYor Performing Arts Center, in downtown Youngstown. See News Brief below.

Tuesday, Feb. 16. About 250 students from 27 middle and junior high schools will participate in the 2010 MATHCOUNTS competition in Kilcawley Center. The contest was originally scheduled for Feb. 11 but was rescheduled due to weather.

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1 p.m. The Investment Subcommittee of the YSU Board of Trustees meets in the President's Conference Room on the second floor of Tod Hall.

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. The YSU Center for Working–Class Studies presents a lecture by Michele Fazio, assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, titled "Factories and Steel Workers: Constructions of Class in Contemporary Native American Literature." The talk will be in the Presidential Suite of Kilcawley Center. See News Brief below.

Wednedsay, Feb. 17, 12:15 p.m. The YSU Percussion Ensemble performs at Music at Noon concert in the Butler Institute of American Art. Free.

Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2:30 p.m. Special meeting of the YSU Board of Trustees in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center.

Thursday, Feb. 18, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sigma Chi Fraternity at Youngstown State University and the YSU Catholic Student Association hosts a pasta dinner at the YSU Newman Center, 254 Madison Ave., Youngstown. Proceeds will be donated to the Zeta Psi Chapter of Sigma Chi at the University of Cincinnati, which is organizing a mission to Haiti this summer. The Brothers of Sigma Chi have gone on this mission the last three years, but because of the recent devastation the Brothers have decided to send double the amount of volunteers to assist in the rebuild. Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for non–students. The fraternity will also be collecting new or gently–used shoes to donate to the Soles for Souls Haiti Campaign. For more information, contact Steven Tripepi, president YSU Sigma Chi, at 440–759–3840 or smtripepi@student.ysu.edu.

Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m. Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams is the keynote speaker at the second annual STEM Awards Dinner in the DeBartolo Stadium Club. The reception begins at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the awards program at 7 p.m. The cost is $15 and includes dinner. Registration is required and limited to the first 150.

Thursday, Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. "Miracle Inventions by Miracle People" is the title of a multi–media presentation by Greg Mills, writer, comedian, poet and former news reporter, in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center. The presentation focuses on known, and not–so–well–known, African American inventors throughout the history of the United States. The lecture is part of African American History Month.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 18 through 21. University Theater presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy "As You Like It" in Ford Theater on the campus of YSU. Also will be performed Feb. 26 through 28. See News Briefs for details.

Friday, Feb. 19. The YSU Wind Ensemble hosts the 4th Annual YSU Wind and Percussion Invitational in the Edward G. Powers Auditorium in downtown Youngstown. See News Brief below for more details.

Friday, Feb. 19, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The third annual Mahoning Valley Miniature Bridge Building Competition will be in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. For more information, contact Anwarul Islam, associate professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, at 330–941–1740 or aaislam@ysu.edu.

Friday, Feb. 19. Mad about the ARTS, a leading cultural event in the Youngstown region, will be held in the McDonough Museum of Art on the YSU campus. The 14^th annual event, featuring fine wine, food, art, and music, begins at 6:30 p.m. with a Friends of the Arts Preview Reception, with the Main Event from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. For tickets or more information, call 330–941–2787.

Saturday, Feb. 20, noon to 6 p.m. The African Marketplace will be held in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. The event, part of YSU's African American History Month, features jewelry, Afrocentristic writings and literature representing African heritage and much more, including dance and musical entertainment provided by Harambee Youth Group. The event, which is free and open to the public, was originally scheduled for Feb. 6 but was rescheduled due to the weather.

Saturday, Feb. 20, 2:05 p.m. Women's basketball takes on Cleveland State in Beeghly Center. 

McDonough Museum features faculty artwork

The McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University hosts the Biennial Faculty Exhibition Feb. 19 to March 19.

An opening reception will coincide with the annual Mad About The Arts event, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19. Proceeds from the event benefit the McDonough Museum and SMARTS–Students Motivated by the Arts. For tickets to Mad About the ARTS, contact SMARTS at 330–941–2787.

Featured in the exhibit are selected works in various media by studio art faculty in YSUÕs Department of Art, including Joseph D'Uva, Joy Christiansen Erb and Dana Sperry, recent additions to the art department faculty.

Hours at the McDonough Museum of Art are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am until 4 p.m. The museum is open to the public, and admission is free. For more information, visit http://mcdonoughmuseum.ysu.edu.

D'Uva received a bachelor's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master of fine arts degree in printmaking from the University of Iowa. He also attended the Tamarind Institute, where he completed the Professional Printer Training Program. His work is generated from notions of childhood, memory, pop culture, consumerism, and Americana. Toys, games, and patterns pervade the images and are manifestations of both personal meanings and an aesthetic attraction for each object. D'Uva's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally within solo, juried, and invitational group exhibitions.

Christiansen Erb received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Miami University and a master of fine arts degree from Texas Woman's University. Before coming to YSU, she taught photography as a visiting assistant professor at Trinity University in San Antonio and as an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University. Christiansen Erb is an active exhibiting photographer and installation artist. Her creative research incorporates a variety of photographic media including traditional, digital and alternative photographic processes. Her recent body of work, entitled "Family Gathering," examines negative body image and eating disorders and is currently traveling to different venues around the United States. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include the Lee Gallery in Oxford, Ohio, Galveston Arts Center in Galveston, Texas, Hartnett Gallery in Rochester, N.Y., and The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future in Dallas.

Sperry received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Southern Methodist University and a master of fine arts from Indiana University. In recent video pieces, Sperry explores states of loneliness and isolation resulting from experiences that convey insignificance within a modern post–industrial society. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including work recently included at the File 2009 Rio – Electronic Language International Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Bridge Art Fairs in Miami Beach and New York by Gardenfresh Gallery; and Salaisons Gallery, Romanville, Paris, France.

UNC prof lectures on 'Factories and Steel Workers'
Michele Fazio, assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, talks about "Factories and Steel Workers: Constructions of Class in Contemporary Native American Literature" in a public lecture 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16 in the Presidential Suite of Kilcawley Center on the campus of Youngstown State University.

The talk is part of the YSU Center for Working–Class Studies Lecture Series and is co–sponsored by the YSU English Department.

Fazio teaches 20th century and contemporary American literature. She earned a Ph.D. in English from SUNY–Stony Brook and was awarded the Constance Coiner Award for Best Dissertation from the Working–Class Studies Association in 2008 for her dissertation Between Mothers and Sons: The Performance of American Identities in Italian American Literature. She is currently working on a book project examining the representation of labor and class conflict in contemporary multi–ethnic literature.

The Center for Working–Class Studies is a multidisciplinary teaching and research center devoted to the study of working–class life and culture. For more information, contact John Russo at 330–941–2976 or jbrusso@ysu.edu or Sherry Linkon at 330–941–2977 or sllinkon@ysu.edu.

Shakespearean comedy performed in Ford Theater

University Theater presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy "As You Like It" Feb. 18 through 21 and Feb. 26 through 28 in Ford Theater on the campus of Youngstown State University.

Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. while Sunday matinee performances are at 3 p.m. All seats are general admission.

Tickets may be reserved by calling the University Theater Box Office at 330–941–3105. Admission is free for YSU students with ID; $10 for adults; $5 for senior citizens, YSU faculty and staff and high school and college students from other universities, Penguin Club members and YSU alumni. Parking is available in the Wick Avenue parking deck for a fee.

"As You Like It" tells the tale of Rosalind, daughter of a banished Duke, who is forced to flee the court and enter the Forest of Arden when her uncle threatens to have her killed. Accompanied by her cousin Celia, Rosalind disguises herself as a man for safety''s sake. The disguise comes in handy when Rosalind tests the devotion of her noble admirer Orlando, another exile, and teaches him lessons of the heart.

An Opening Night Dinner Buffet is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, at the MVR, 410 Walnut Street. Dinner and a ticket for the performance costs $20. The dinner price for season ticket holders is $15. Reservations and payment must be made with a credit card via the University Theater Box Office, 330–941–3105, or mailed to the Performing Arts Series, One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555 by Tuesday, Feb. 16. Only paid reservations will be accepted; no walk–ins can be accommodated. Reservations are limited to 100.

World–renowned type designer visits campus
Matthew Carter, considered to be one of the world's most important type designers, will speak at the Beecher Center for Art and Technology at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4.

The lecture is sponsored by the Visiting Artist Committee and the Student Art Association at Youngstown State University. The Beecher Center is located in the Butler Institute of American Art on Wick Avenue in Youngstown.

Carter is a type designer with 40 years experience in typographic technologies ranging from hand–cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies, Carter was a co–founder in 1981 of Bitstream Inc., the digital typefoundry, where he worked for 10 years. He is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., designers and producers of original typefaces.

His type designs include ITC Galliard, Snell Roundhand and Shelley scripts, Helvetica Compressed, Olympian (for newspaper text), Bell Centennial (for the US telephone directories), ITC Charter, and faces for Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Devanagari. For Carter & Cone he has designed Mantinia, Sophia, Elephant, Big Caslon, Alisal and Miller. Carter & Cone have produced types on commission for Apple, Microsoft (the screen fonts Verdana and Georgia), Time, Newsweek, Wired, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, and the Walker Art Center.

Carter is chairman of the type designers'' committee of ATypI, and a Senior Critic on Yale''s Graphic Design faculty. He has received the Frederic W. Goudy Award for outstanding contribution to the printing industry, the Middleton Award from the American Center for Design, a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, the AIGA medal and the Type Directors Club medal.

Phillip Chan, YSU professor of art, will present a pre–lecture on Carter and his work at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday March 2, in Room 467 of Bliss Hall at YSU. That lecture is also open to the public.

Wind/Percussion Invitational set for Friday
The Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble will host the 4th Annual YSU Wind and Percussion Invitational in the Edward G. Powers Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 19.  

The Dana School of Music woodwind, brass and percussion faculty members will work with visiting high school musicians in master classes during the afternoon. The event will culminate with a joint concert featuring the two guest high school groups and the YSU Wind Ensemble at 7 p.m. Friday.

The first guest band is the Boardman High School Wind Ensemble, which recently gave a featured performance at the 2010 Ohio Music Educators Association State Convention in Cincinnati.  The other guest band is the Kiski Area High School Wind Ensemble, one of Pennsylvania's finest high school concert ensembles.

The YSU Wind Ensemble will perform a new work by YSU and University Scholars alumnus, Matthew VanSuch, entitled Fanfare for the Red & White based on the YSU Alma Mater and Fight Song.  The ensemble will then be joined by the YSU Contemporary Dance Ensemble on John Mackey's Strange Humors.  The band will then perform Danish composer, Jacob tel Velderhuis''s (aka Jacob TV) Tallahatchie Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, featuring Dana Professor of Saxophone James Umble. The ensemble will present Steven Bryant''s Ecstatic Waters for Wind Ensemble and Electro–acoustics, and will close the concert with Sousa''s Stars and Stripes Forever.  

Umble is a native of Pennsylvania and holds the position of Professor of Saxophone Performance in the Dana School of Music. He has also been on the performance faculty of the Brevard Music Center Summer Program in North Carolina. Umble holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of a First Prize in Saxophone Performance from the National Conservatory of Music, Bordeaux, France. Umble's book, "Jean–Marie Londeix, Master of the Modern Saxophone" profiling the life and pedagogy of this great musical figure was published in June 2000 in two languages by Roncorp Music Publishers. Active as a soloist with orchestra and wind ensemble, Umble has performed with the U.S. Navy Band at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as well as numerous other ensembles. He has also performed numerous times as a guest saxophonist in select repertoire with The Cleveland Orchestra and will again go on tour with The Cleveland Orchestra this spring. In August 2005, Umble was invited to participate as a recitalist, lecturer and teacher at the International Single Reed Festival in Xian, China and has traveled throughout North America as a performer, clinician, teacher and lecturer in collaboration with his colleagues, Stephen and Carolyn Warner of the Cleveland Duo. Their chamber music collaboration of 15 years has seen them touring throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada performing newly commissioned works and fresh transcriptions for violin, saxophone and piano. Recent tours have taken them to California, Oregon, Arkansas, Florida, and South Dakota.

The concert is part of the Dana School of Music''s 140th Anniversary Concert Series, and it is sponsored by YSU, the Dana School of Music, and the Dana Concert Series. Tickets are available at the door or by calling the Youngstown Symphony at 330–744–0264.

Dana Orchestra plays tonight at DeYor
Youngstown State University's Dana Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, in the Ford Family Recital Hall at the Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion, DeYor Performing Arts Center, in downtown Youngstown.

The concert will feature these works: Symphony No. 3 by Johannes Brahms, Espa—a Rhapsody by Emmanuel Chabrier, Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, Op. 96a by James Barnes, Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Gordon Jacob and Fantaisie Brillante sur Carmen by Fran�ois Borne.

The concert also features the three Dana Young Artists Competition winners as chosen by an independent panel of judges. They are: Matthew Craig, (tuba) of Austintown, Ohio; Alex Snyder, (trombone) of West Chester, Ohio; and Julianna Sabo, (flute) of Mentor, Ohio.

Tickets for the concert are $5 for adults and $4 for senior citizens and students. Children under 12 and anyone with a YSU ID are free. Tickets are available at the door or by calling the Youngstown Symphony at 330–744–0264.  

Fishbone is 'Thomas Entrepreneur' Feb. 23 and 24
Robert Fishbone, president of On The Wall Productions, will be visiting Youngstown State University on Feb. 23 and 24 as a "Thomas Entrepreneur in Residence."

Robert Fishbone is known for the creative approach he takes to everything he does, from professional speaking to workshop facilitation, to music and storytelling, to public art and product designing. His methodology is unique, and he draws upon his vast and varied experience to craft innovative solutions to the "problems" he is presented with. His mission is to get people to see past the obvious by surprising them, and make their own Crazy Ideas a reality.

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, three class sessions are scheduled in the Chestnut Room in Kilcawley Center at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2 p.m. Topics covered by Fishbone include brainstorming techniques, reinforcing the importance of business plans, cross training for creativity: flexing your mental muscles, and the internet–how it has changed everything. These sessions are open to the public. At 4 p.m. Fishbone will also conduct a faculty roundtable in Kilcawley Center at YSU to discuss creative methods for teaching entrepreneurship.       

In addition, Fishbone will provide a breakfast presentation titled "Creatively Reinvent Your Business" at the Holiday Inn South in Boardman on February 24 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. The public is cordially invited to attend free of charge. To make a reservation, please call the Office of the Dean at 330–941–3064 or email cgshelton@ysu.edu.

Later that day an Entrepreneurship Fair will occur at the YSU campus in the Chestnut Room in Kilcawley Center. A panel discussion, "Resources for Starting Your Business," with members from the Youngstown Business Incubator, Ohio Small Business Development Center at YSU, Garden Club Angels, and the Monus Entrepreneurship Center will begin at 10:00 a.m. Robert Fishbone will give a keynote address from 11 to  noon. Small group discussions will follow from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend free of charge.

After graduating from Antioch College in 1973 with a degree in Communications Fishbone used his skills to design and produce over 200 mural projects around the U.S. with his wife, including their most well known piece, Lindy Squared on the old Lion Gas Building at 10th and Chestnut. His clients ranged from neighborhood organizations, schools and clinics to Fortune 500 companies like Ralston Purina, Monsanto and Bell Telephone.

He then went on to invent the inflatable Scream and over 150 other art and music related gift items sold in museums and music stores in 20 countries. He is also a talented musician in his own right, specializing in world percussion and has a CD of original music and stories called 1,000 Steps.

His 2009 book, Selling the Scream, chronicles his saga as an artist in business, and is both a collection of inspirational stories and a blueprint for starting, running and growing a business based on YOUR Crazy Ideas.

Currently, Fishbone is working with universities, corporations and arts organizations to help individuals become successful entrepreneurs with their own Crazy Ideas.

The Thomas Entrepreneur In Residence is supported by an endowment established by the Paul J. and Marguerite K. Thomas. Reflecting the Thomases' involvement in the business community and their interest in the community at large, this fund continues to support growth in the free enterprise system as well as our local entrepreneurs.

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