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18 FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2004 Arts to benefit from growth BY NICK PARKER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Last year the University arts community lost a champion. Arts Carolina, a lauded program which organized, coordinated and advertised for the various arts on and around campus, was cut as a result of straining economic times. Thus, the 2003-04 school year was markedly sparse of artistic expression. Though programming contin ued both through the fine arts departments and student groups, promotion was spotty, events were humble and collaboration was nearly nonexistent. Now, after a year of struggling with consistency and exposure, the arts community is looking toward the future to find hope. “This past year was rough for all of us,” said Ray Dooley, chairman of the Department of Dramatic Art. “The absence of Amy (Brannock, director of Arts Carolina) was obvious any time you looked around campus. “We are trying to move on as a community and to continue grow ing. It’s both scary and very excit ing.” It’s growth and change that could be a long time coming, but it is a professed priority of the administration. Dooley will head a committee charged by Chancellor James Moeser on April 13 to locate an Executive Director of the Arts —a future position to be based in the Office of the Provost. Much like Arts Carolina, the EDA will collaborate between the diverse fine arts departments and plan events which pull together all of their unique strengths. The position also will be respon sible for finding all programming for the major performance venues on campus, including Memorial Hall, which is slated to be reopened in the spring 0f2005. “The EDA is a position that I believe will radically change the arts on campus,” Moeser said. “It will bring anew focus, enthusiasm and leadership that is crucial for the arts to flourish.” Perhaps the EDA’s greatest responsibility, however, will not reach its completion until 50 years down the road. 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After several decades of con struction and an expected S2OO million budget, the area will if the plan succeeds become an arts hub, a central location for any conceivable fine arts function. “It’s a lofty goal but a very important one,” said Steve Allred, associate provost for academic ini tiatives, who is heading the push for the Arts Common. “This will finally put a physical face to the vibrant arts community that is already here.” Upon completion, the Arts Common will feature an under ground parking, a grass quad, ren ovations to existing structures, sev eral completely new classroom and performance buildings and a cen tral, vista-like area highlighting the individual strengths of the fine arts departments. “I think that this could really turn into ‘the Pit of north campus,’” Allred said. “Our dream is to have somewhere that every artist on campus feels like is a second home.” But the days of lounging in the grass next to anew Communications Studies building or admiring sculptures outside of a rejuvenated Hanes Art Center are still a long way off. In order to better structure and fund the changes, the Arts Common plan has been broken down into several phases. Phase I— which includes the construction of an underground parking deck and anew building for the Department of Music hopefully will begin in the early months of 2006. “We want to get this off the ground and running as soon as possible,” Allred said. “But realisti cally, we need to make sure we are doing everything right and as affordably as possible, so this could take a while.” On Wednesday, Allred met with a planning committee to whittle down a long list of prospective con tractors to a short set of finalists. At this point, the committee has a list of six architectural firms that possibly could take on the respon sibility of Phase I construction. A large panel of representatives ranging from the College of Arts and Sciences to the Buildings and Grounds Committee to the Office of the Provost will interview the firms May 5 and make its decision shortly after. That recommendation will go to the Buildings and Grounds Committee and the to the Board of Trustees for final approval on May 25. But not even this year’s fresh man class will see the final results as students, as Phase I completion is estimated for 2009. “If Phase I goes according to plan then it could really bode well for the entire project,” Allred said. “A good start could really grease the wheels for what could be a very long road.” But planners are just trying to get the groundwork laid before set ting their sites on the final goal. The proposed music building will turn the existing Smith Hall into one wing of a larger, 80,000-square foot complex which will include a 650 seat performance auditorium and a 150 seat recital hall. That building alone will cost an estimated S2B million by itself, with S2O million coming from bond money. “Most of the funding for these projects will come from a combi nation of bond money and private contributions,” Allred said. “I am sure that the EDA will be respon sible for finding a lot of that money, working to try and get private donations.” Phase I also will include the construction of anew parking deck, to be housed completely underneath anew grass quad beside the music building. The lot’s 300 spots will be reserved entirely for visitor parking and the sl2 million project will be paid for out of its own parking fees. It’s a massive project made more of ideas and aspirations than brick and-mortar. And, even if it goes without a hitch, the Master Plan will take more than 50 years to reach fruition. But at this point, it’s all baby steps. “Honestly, this plan is so large that I probably will not live to see its completion,” Allred said. “But the point is to give something to the fiiture generations at Carolina that they can unite over. To get there, we have to dream big but work small.” Contact theA&E Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. News Local music scene far from dead BY PHILIP MCFEE ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR When a company isn’t profiting like it once did, a natural conclu sion is to blame the product. When local music venues are struggling, hometown bands typi cally bear the blame. With news of a financial pinch at Go! Room 4, things have begun to look less than stellar for the once-hyped Chapel Hill musical powerhouse. But the still-strong scene is far from defeated. “(There are) not as many indie rock bands,” said Cat’s Cradle Owner Frank Heath in December. “Aside from missing... hugely suc cessful national acts, I think that it’s not so much a lull. I think there’s more good bands now than there were six or seven years ago.” What Chapel Hill lacks now that cemented its reputation in the ’9os is attention from national media reporters riding the buzz stirred up by Superchunk, Archers of Loaf and Ben Folds-Five. There’s a lack of immediate, national name recognition. But beyond the distracting hype, the THE Daily Crossword By Alan P. 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Local artists are ushering in a new, diverse sound that makes it difficult to classify in a single genre. “Certain kinds of music have always created more of a buzz rock bands who get in magazines as opposed to country bands,” Heath said. “Experienced musi cians are experimenting.” Once the drummer for mega group Ben Folds Five, Darren Jesse continued to make music after the dissolution of his ’9os crew. “There’s a lot going on,” Jesse said in December. “The music scene in general in the country 27 Having wings 28 Animation 29 _ Park, CO 30 Type of test 31 X 33 Concerning 34 Right to enter 35 -do-well 36 Fork prong 38 Pickpocket's pick 39 Sleeve card? 42 At this moment 43 Student letters 45 Sal's canal 64 Egg-shaped 65 Life of Riley 66 People flicks 67 Craves DOWN 1 Mach+jets 2 Sarcastic laughter 3 Exaggerate 4 Real profit 5 Newspaper honcho 6 Body of water 7 Orbison and Acuff 8 Botanical anchor 9 Swing around 10 Possess 11 Princes of India 12 Director Cameron 13 So far 18 Bovine bellows 19 Making missteps 24 Feet/second connector 26 Break off i b 13 n p 12 113I 13 t? ~ ~jßip • " '||®T6 ■ ~ __ * j ~ 20 ■p 3— 24 gan~ 26~n 27 20 “THH29 30 31 “ 32 ““‘■■■■■33 134 35 36 37 ‘ ■■■3 B 39 " Wi ” 7T~ ' ”“|42 ” ” " ” ■■44 “ Hp" 46 47 48 51 ■■■s2 153 54 55 " 57 58 59 60] I 61 62 “ ” ‘ ■■■63 ■■64” " ’ ~ ■|||66 " """ '|p|§67 “ ufyp My (Bar (has) gone through some major transitions in the past five years. “You have to stay creative.” Innovation is vital, though it can hurt show attendance. “Certain types of music don’t draw the same crowds. I think it’s just a change in generations.” Tift Merritt, a former UNC stu dent turned award-winning coun try artist, successfully took her alternative sound to the national arena. Her story is indicative of the direction of Chapel Hill’s new gen eration of musicians unique and unconcerned with the fixations of big-time critics. “The real people who usually make things happen aren’t testing the barometer.... Every five min utes, they’re doing their own thing,” she said in December. She recognizes that the soul of the local scene will live on, over looked or underappreciated, through crises or calm. “It’s pretty hard to keep Chapel Hill down, whether anybody’s looking or not.” Contact theA&E Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. (C)2004 Tribune Media Services, Inc. Ail rights reserved. 46 Pasture 47 Shoot from hiding 48 Book after Daniel 49 Magnani and Moffo 50 Feeds the pot 53 Applicator 54 Hack 55 Norway capital 57 Overlook 58 Beatty and Buntline 60 Mine output 61 Dam-building grp.
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