CFA February Schedule

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APOTHECARY (storehouse): new paintings by David Schorr Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 5pm to 7pm Davison Art Center FREE! With more than 75 paintings on paper, this exhibition reveals the recent work of David Schorr, Wesleyan Professor of Art. Meticulously executed in gouache and silverpoint, the works in this series depict antique apothecary bottles, complete with mysterious labels such as Deep Dark Secrets, Sleepless Nights and Love Remembered. In the accompanying catalog, Phyllis Rose, Wesleyan Professor of English, Emerita, identifies the Shakespearean sources for labels such asRough Magic and Present Mirth. Other labels remain obscure, tantalizing the viewer, for whom the bottles dance just out of reach. APOTHECARY (storehouse): new paintings by David Schorr will be on view from Friday, February 3 through Thursday, March 8, 2012.

This Weekend: Great Small Works in CFA Hall Friday, February 3 & Saturday, February 4, 8pm CFA Hall Each performance will be followed by a post-show discussion. Tickets: $15 general public; $12 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan studetns; $6 Wesleyan students "[Great Small Works has] breathed new, pointed life into the form of toy theater." -The Village Voice Co-founded in 1995 by Wesleyan alum Mark Sussman '85, the New York-based collective of Great Small Works met through their associations with Vermont's Bread and Puppet Theater. The group draws on folk, avant-garde and popular theater traditions to address contemporary social issues. The company's shows at Wesleyan this weekend will feature performances by Cassandra Burrows, John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Jenny Romaine and Xavier of the works Short, Entertaining History of Toy Theater; Toy Theater of Terror As Usual, Episode 12: Desert and Ocean, a surreal serial drama using excerpted texts and images quickly cut from daily newspapers; and Three Graces, acantastoria (picture-based storytelling work) in which three mythical graces - Harmony, Strategy and Splendor - float down to earth for an op-art romp inspired by Grace Paley, Grace Kelly, Grace Jones and Grace Lee Boggs.

Upcoming Events at the Center for the Arts Tickets are on sale now. Click here to buy your tickets online. Buy tickets to four or more Performing Arts Series events and save 10%! Buy tickets to six or more Performing Arts Series events and save 15%! Call or visit the Wesleyan University Box Office at 860-685-3355 to receive a discount on your purchase of four or more Performing Arts Series events. This special offer also applies to theOutside the Box Theater Series and the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend. MUSIC 1. Karas String Quartet: Afternoon with Chamber Music - Sunday, February 5, 3pm, The Russell House 2. February Organ Fête- Friday, February 10, 8pm; Saturday, February 11, 4pm; Memorial Chapel 3. Music of Bresnick and Bruce - Sunday, February 12, 3pm, Crowell Concert Hall THEATER 4. Great Small Works - Friday, February 3 & Saturday, February 4, 8pm, CFA Hall 5. Theater after Wesleyan: Class of '06 - Monday, February 6, 5pm, CFA Hall SPECIAL EVENTS 6. RISK!- Friday, February February 10, 7pm & 10pm, Crowell Concert Hall IN THE GALLERIES 7. Passing Time - Through Sunday, March 4 in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery 8. A Late Christmas Gift: Contemporary Prints from Japan - Wednesday, February 1 through Friday, March 9 at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery (Gallery Talk: Wednesday, February 1, Noon) 9. Pojagi Workshop with Jinyoung Kim - Sunday, February 5, 2pm, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery 10. APOTHECARY (storehouse): new paintings by David Schorr - Friday, February 3 through Thursday, March 8 at the Davison Art Center (Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 5pm)