In conjunction with the art fairs, the College of Fine Arts and Tamarind hosted an event for CFA alumni in the New York area at the print workshop of Judith Solodkin, a Tamarind graduate and the first female recipient of the Tamarind Master Printer certificate. Judith's workshop, Solo Impression, has attracted many important artists and is a well-respected part of the New York art scene.

Warhol Foundation Supports Tamarind Institute

The Tamarind Institute is pleased to announce that it has received a highly competitive grant from the Warhol Foundation. The grant will provide partial funding for "Migrations," an ambitious project developed to identify and showcase emerging Native American artists who are working with a contemporary, rather than a traditional, vocabulary. A panel of noted experts in the field will select artists from an open call for submissions. Artists will make prints at either Tamarind Institute or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, an art center on the Umatilla reservation in eastern Oregon. The prints will be included in a traveling exhibition. Known contemporary art critics, who will write catalogue essays, will visit the workshops during the artist collaborations. Additional funds are being sought in order to move forward with this project. Those interested in contributing or learning more about the project should contact Tamarind at (505) 277-3920 or tamarind@unm.edu.

Morten Lauridsen

Next April, University Chorus brings Dr. Morten Lauridsen, the internationally famous American composer, to UNM for a four-day festival of his choral music. Distinguished choral ensembles in the United States and around the world regularly feature Lauridsen's vocal cycles, individual songs and other choral works. He has become the most popularcomposer of choral music in American history. A recording of his Lux Aeterna by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich conducting, sold more than 100,000 copies and was nominated for a Grammy award.

As part of the festival, Lauridsen will attend a statewide high school choral festival of his music and will work with the choirs at two local high schools while area primary school students watch and learn. He will also work with UNM composition majors and give a radio interview and a lecture about his music. The festival will culminate in a performance of Lux Aeterna by the combined UNM choirs and Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, which Lauridsen will oversee.

For more information about University Chorus or the Morten Lauridsen Choral Music Festival, please contact Bradley Ellingboe, University Chorus director, at brell@unm.edu. To inquire about making a donation to the scholarship fund, please contact the CFA Development Office at (505) 277-9377 or cfadevel@unm.edu.

Legislative Funds Help Renovate Carlisle Gym

Completed in 1928 at a cost of $84,965, Carlisle Gym is fondly remembered as UNM's first athletic facility. Since then, the original 34,929-square-foot space, designed by the Albuquerque architectural firm Gaastra, Gladding and Johnson, has had several modifications. In 1946, John Gaw Meem designed an addition to the west side of the building that included infilling the space between the gym and the Korber Wireless Station (which moved off campus and became KOB).

In the early '50s, the University purchased an atmospheric chamber from the U.S. Navy, and built a room for it on the north side of the gym. The chamber is still in use today. In 1988, Carlisle Gym received national registry status when added to the New Mexico Registry of Historic Properties.

For years, UNM's Department of Theatre and Dance wanted to renovate and utilize the Carlisle Gym as a performance space to train dancers. The lack of adequate performance space became critical when the department wished to establish a master of fine arts program in dance. Larry Lavender, then head of dance, asked the UNM Friends of Dance Board of Directors to raise the necessary funds to renovate the South Arena and create a performance and teaching studio for the dance program.

With the leadership of past UNM Friends of Dance presidents Lorin Saint and Kirn Feldman, this dream finally became a reality with the passage of capital outlay funding (SB 149) from the New Mexico State Legislature in 2002. What used to be a basketball court now has beentransformed into a multifunctional, 250-seat, state-of-the-art dance performance space equipped with new lighting and sound systems, acoustics, seats, risers and a large video screen. UNM instructors are using the space for lecture and studio classes. Student performances are planned, and students are being trained to use the new audio-visual equipment through classes offered by the theatre program.

Chris Fenton, current president of Friends of Dance, is coordinating the completion of this project. Plans are underway to renovate the two main restrooms, bringing them up to current ADA standards. Once this is done, fund-raising efforts will focus on finishing the restoration of the ticket booths and front entry.

Great events are being planned for this new space. In addition, new scholarships and a building maintenance fund will use portions of the revenue generated from event ticket sales and rental of the space to other UNM groups.

The Carlisle Performance Studio has become a reality due to the dedicated efforts and generous support of the members of UNM Friends of Dance, UNM staff and alumni, the Albuquerque dance community and our state legislators. Kudos to Sen. Cisco McSorley for his belief in our dance education program and former Gov. Gary Johnson for signing SB 149 into law!

Tor more information on the Carlisle Gym project and UNM Friends of Dance, please call Chris Fenton at (505) 272-9700 or (505) 269-4843.