February 24, 2012
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Wins Five American Advertising Federation Awards Michiana ADDY Awards.
Notre Dame, Ind. — On Thursday, February 23, 2012, the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center won four gold ADDY awards and one Best of Show: Print Addy award. The ADDY Awards, presented by the American Advertising Federation Michiana honor those in our local community producing outstanding marketing and creative work.
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center received awards for it's 2011-2012 Visiting Artist Series brochure, it's print collateral honoring Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour performances at the University of Notre Dame and Exposition, the center’s in-house free bi-monthly editorial magazine.
About the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Michiana:
AAF Michiana is the premier organization in Michiana for all marketing, advertising and media professionals as well as for college students pursuing studies in the field. And we serve the area's marketing and advertising community through joint career-enhancing luncheons, networking opportunities, communications and other joint ventures.
http://www.aafmichiana.org/
About the University of Notre Dame DeBartolo Performing Arts Center:
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center facilitates learning reflective of Notre Dame’s distinctive liberal arts tradition through the informed exploration of universal truths and beauty. We serve to encourage and celebrate the human spirit through the performing and cinematic arts which connect, stimulate and enrich our communities.
In response to life’s great questions, we strive to be a premier university presenter advancing the depth of discourse and wealth of cultural expression in which lies the transformative power of the arts.
February 20, 2012
Anna Thompson joins Fischoff National Advisory Council
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center director joins Wu Han, Paul Katz, and others in group providing strategic counsel to the Fischoff.
South Bend, IN - February 20, 2012 - Anna Thompson, executive director of the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, has joined the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association's National Advisory Council, a group of industry and business leaders who provide strategic counsel and assistance to the chamber music association.
Ms. Thompson joins Fischoff National Advisory Council members Wu Han (concert pianist and Artistic Co-Director of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York), Paul Katz (noted Grammy-winning cellist and former member, Cleveland Quartet), and others.
Anna Thompson serves as the executive director of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and fills the endowed Judd & Mary Lou Leighton Director of the Performing Arts at the University of Notre Dame. Thompson came to the University of Notre Dame in July of 2007 after ten years at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (MN) where she unified the fine arts program for these separate Benedictine liberal arts institutions. Prior to holding the position in Minnesota, she served as an arts administrator in Indianapolis for 14 years (Butler University, the Indianapolis Museum of Art). In addition to current oversight of all administration and finances for the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, she specializes as a curator of performing arts programming and develops interdisciplinary visiting artist residency projects with the Academy. Thompson has commissioned the first new works in music, dance and theater for Notre Dame to tour nationally and internationally bearing the name of the university.
Thompson has commissioned orchestral and chamber works by David Ott; Bruce Adolphe, Eric Ewazen; Simone Shaheen, Wu Man; Terry Riley; Tarik O'Regan; Stephen Prutsman; Steven Mackey; and Augusta Reed Thomas.
Thompson is a frequent lecturer and presenter at regional, national and international performing arts conferences (University of Krakow-Bytom Poland; Silesian Dance Theater Festival (Bytom, Poland); Association of Performing Arts Presenters; Chamber Music America; Arts Midwest; and the Kennedy Center. Among her achievements is the NAPAMA Presenter of the Year Award (2004). She serves locally on the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County.
Thompson received her bachelor's degree from Albion College and her master's from Western Michigan University with additional studies in educational leadership at Butler University and a certificate in executive leadership from the University of Notre Dame. Thompson is a member of the International Society for the Performing Arts, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Chamber Music America, Dance/USA and the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents.
About the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association
Founded in 1973 in South Bend, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition has grown to become the largest chamber music competition in the world, and one of the most prestigious classical music prizes attainable today. Since its founding, more than 5,000 musicians have participated, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers in music performance and education. Committed to music education, the Fischoff also partners with competition alumni to bring free, innovative Arts-in-Education programs directly to children in their own schools and community centers throughout Michiana.
About the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center facilitates learning reflective of the University of Notre Dame's distinctive liberal arts tradition through the informed exploration of universal truths and beauty. The Center serves to encourage and celebrate the human spirit through the performing and cinematic arts, which connect, stimulate and enrich our communities.
Fischoff National Chamber Music Association
Ann Divine
Executive Director
(574) 631 0984
fischoff@fischoff.org
http://www.fischoff.org
DeBartolo Peforming Arts Center
Kyle Fitzenreiter
Marketing Program Manager
(574) 631-1873
Kyle.Fitzenreiter.1@nd.edu
http://performingarts.nd.edu
January 23, 2012
The Kennedy Center Announces the Addition of the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center to its Partners in Education Program.
Notre Dame, Ind. — In April 2012, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host the 13th Partners in Education Institute. The four-day intensive is designed for arts organizations and school districts interested in partnering together to initiate or expand professional development programs for teachers. The Kennedy Center selected 12 teams of arts organizations and school systems from across the nation to participate in the Partners in Education Institute.
The University of Notre Dame is proud to partner with the South Bend Community School Corporation in this program.
The Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is designed to assist arts organizations throughout the nation to develop or expand educational partnerships with their local school systems. The primary purpose of these partnerships is to provide professional development in the arts for teachers. In 1992, this program was awarded the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' Dawson Award, which recognizes innovative and successful projects.
The Partners in Education program is based on the belief that the professional development of teachers is an essential component of any effort designed to increase the artistic literacy of young people. The Kennedy Center's extensive experience with its local professional development program, established in 1976, provides the basis for this national program.
Located in north-central Indiana, South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC), Carole Schmidt, Ph.D., Superintendent, is St. Joseph County’s oldest and largest school corporation, and the fourth largest school corporation in Indiana. SBCSC is a $237 million corporation with over 3,500 employees and over 21,000 students. The school corporation has 34 school buildings and six support facilities in a geographical area covering 160 square miles. SBCSC also has instructional staff assigned to the Thomas Frederick Juvenile Justice Center and other locations throughout the community.
SBCSC serves traditional K-12 students, special-needs students from preschool through age 22, and a large number of adult students. As the adult education center for St. Joseph County, the school corporation annually grants more GEDs than any other testing center in the state.
