Sails sar
CUAB leader focuses
on uniting community
BY SETH WRIGHT
ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR
For Carolina Union President
Tom Allin, hosting a one-time Ben
Folds Five reunion isn’t what
2008 successful.
It was finger-painting in the Pit
“We put butcher paper Out on
the floor of the Pit,” he said. “People
just started showing up and making
art together in that early childhood,
finger-painting kind of way.”
• Allin admitted hosting Ben Folds
Five was exciting but said 2008 was
a success because CUAB was able to
unite the UNC community through
a diversity of music, film and art
Total attendance at the nearly
200 events in 2008 was 48,484.
Of all 194 events, 76 percent had
fewer than 250 students participat
ing. However, it was those tight-knit
events that comprised 29 percent of
the year’s total attendance.
“It’s a sign of people being com
fortable with one another,” Allin
said. “I feel like the board has
done a wonderful job of graphing
programs that appeal to a wide
variety of students.”
A Zumba session in Gerrard
Hall, a speech by “Dark Knight”
producer Michael Uslan, The Cool
Kids’ performance Allin said it
all helped fulfill CUAB’s goal of
connecting students.
Allin, CUAB’s music chairman last
year, said he previously focused on
performances, but came to the real
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like pumpkin carving and fortune
telling should have his attention.
”1 feel oftentimes the heart of
CUAB lies in the little programs,
he said. “A lot of the programs that
didn’t get any press I feel were real
ly some of the best.”
CUAB music Chairwoman Adele
Ricciardi said 2008 didn’t start out
as intended because of a lack of diver
sity in musical acts and program.
But things were different in the
fall when CUAB hosted experimen
tal groups like Ted Leo next to pop
ular acts like The Avett Brothers
and Andrew Bird.
“I think we’ve had a lot more luck
with booking,” Ricciardi said. “We’ve
also had a clearer focus and clearer
goals coming in to this semester.”
Ricciardi said the group will
still look to improve, as they make
a conscious effort to book female
performers in 2009 and host inter
national music acts.
Music continues to draw CUAB’s
largest attendance numbers, but
Allin said he said he hopes people
will remember the 2008 events
that united the UNC community,
rather than simply those with large
attendance numbers.
“I hope some students leave think
ing, ‘That was the year we were fin
ger-painting in the Pit,”’ Allin said.
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Ackland basks in ‘1958’ success
BY PHILLIP CROOK
STAFF WRITER .
There is an energetic circuit pul
sating through the galleries of the
Ackland Art Museum.
“Circa 1958,” the exhibition
assembled in celebration of the
museum’s 50th anniversary, gener
ated an excited response from visi
tors, which in turn energized the
museum staff about the Ackland’s
future shows.
“This is the biggest exhibition
we’ve done, so everyone at the muse
um was excited about pulling it off”
Director of Communications Nic
Brown said. “It’s icing on the cake
that the public responded so well.”
The museum’s relationship with
its visitors extended beyond walls
hung with art to include a torrent
of lectures, concerts and parties to
celebrate Ackland’s birthday.
The show opened Sept. 21 and
will close Jan. 4, but Director Emily
Kass said taking stock of the exhi
bition’s achievement was possible
even from the start.
She said more than 700 people
flushed through the galleries at its
opening to see work from trans
formative artists of the 1950 sand
’6os, like Andy Warhol and Robert
Rauschenberg.
That number does not include
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the more than 300 University stu
dents who attended the Ackland’s
fall semester welcome back party
held in the walls of the exhibit.
“The large number of people who
came to celebrate with us is really
special because it’s an affirmation
that we’re connecting with our com
munity,” Kass said. “But attendance
is only part of the equation.”
Kass said she also measures the
show’s success by its ties with stu
dents’ curriculum and by scholar
ship generated by the exhibition.
While the artists’ names for
spring’s exhibitions maybe less well
known or even unrecognizable
Barbara Matilsky, Ackland’s curator
of exhibitions, said the shows’ themes
are just as relevant to visitors as the
pieces from “Circa 1958.”
The Ackland’s next exhibition,
“At the Heart of Progress,” opens
Jan. 24 and explores how the
Industrial Revolution fired artists’
imaginations about issues of tech
nology and the environment.
Kass said in planning for future
exhibitions, the museum is con
scious of the downward-spiraling
economy. She said the University
made small cuts in the Ackland’s
funding, which delays new hiring
and some publications.
The cuts will not affect the muse-
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
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Anna Wu of Durham views the Kenneth Noland piece “That” at the
opening of the "Circa 1958” exhibition at the Ackland Art Museum.
urn’s expected acquisitions from
“Circa 1958,” in which the Ackland
will purchase some pieces currently
on loan to the exhibition.
While the exact sales are yet to be
nailed down, Kass said the museum
has been saving its endowed acqui
sition funds, the pool of money set
aside for this purchases, until she
feels that the market is no longer
overpriced.
“We’re focusing on being pre
pared because everyone’s affected
by the economy” Kass said. “We’ve
scaled back our budget but not in
any way that I think will hurt the
visitor experience.”
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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