Linnell Festival of New Plays features three new works by graduating UNM playwrights | College of Fine Arts

The University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance presents three works by graduating playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing Program. Linnell Festival of New Plays, under artistic director, Gregory S. Moss, takes place February 9-13 at The Experimental Theatre “X”, located in the UNM College of Fine Arts building. Ticket prices are $15 for general admission, $12 for faculty and seniors, and $10 for staff and students. Seating is limited, COVID guidelines apply. Please visit unmtickets.com to purchase.

The three plays by graduating playwrights are Remain in Light written by A. Yourd, directed by Leonard Madrid, The Eccentrics, written by Steve Blacksmith, directed by RayRey Griego, and Blood Vessel written by Penelope Hawkins and directed by Juli Hendren. The plays will be performed in a rotating repertory (two performances each) over the course of five days. The bi-annual festival is named in honor of Jim Linnell, a former dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, and a founding faculty of the Dramatic Writing Program.

”The MFA in Dramatic Writing seeks to create cutting-edge theatre that is both distinctively New Mexican and reaches beyond borderlines to engage in the national and international theatre conversation,” said festival artistic director Gregory S. Moss. Moss, the director of the MFA in Dramatic Writing program and head of Theatre and Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, added that the three plays receiving full productions this spring represent the culmination of three years of collective hard work and attention to craft. “Each playwright brings something unique to the table,” Moss said.

Linnell Festival of Plays, Spring 2022:
Remain in Light (A Yourd/Leonard Madrid, dir.) February 9 and 12, 2022 at 7:30 pm

A starship road trip for sad verbose creatures, Remain in Light is the story of five aliens who work aboard a space station, venturing out on interplanetary assignments to gather information about other worlds and report what they’ve learned back to their employers (a mysterious entity called “Management”). After a night of partying, the team awakes on a dilapidated starship

crashing towards the planet Earth. However, the recently-promoted Captain seems more interested in doing hallucinatory space drugs and listening to Talking Heads cassette tapes than preparing for the team’s assignment. As the ship approaches the planet, relationships are tested, hierarchies are toppled, and secrets are revealed about Management’s true intentions for the planets they visit.

The Eccentrics (Steve Blacksmith/RayRey Griego, dir.) February 10 at 7:30 pm and February 13 at 6:00 pm.

It’s the tail end of 1999, and in the hearts and minds of Christians everywhere, Jesus Christ IS coming back at the turn of the Millennium. Four teens, each demonized for their “eccentricities,” join together to form a band in order to greet Jesus back in style. When a smooth-talking con man takes over their congregation, The Eccentrics must find a way to stop him before he bankrupts the church and all of its members. In this musical comedy, the supremely strange atmosphere of End Times Evangelical fervor comes to life as we teach you a new way to party like it’s 1999.

Blood Vessel (Penelope Hawkins/Juli Hendren, dir.) February 11 at 7:30 pm and February 12 at 3:00 pm.

Madam Carte Blanc welcomes you aboard The Blood Vessel. The ship will embark on its virginal voyage through the dark & mysterious waters of vodka, sweat, servitude, and cuttlefish stew. Come settle yourself on the main deck with a beverage in hand and watch the comedy unfold. Masks have never been this fun.

Linnell Festival of New Plays also includes second- and first-year MFA student work in the form of staged readings, on February 12 from 11:00 am to 1:30 pm, and February 13 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, respectively.

Tickets for individual Linnell Festival of New Plays at The Experimental Theatre “X” are $15 for general admission, $12 for faculty and seniors, and $10 for staff and students, please visit unmtickets.com to purchase. Seating is limited, COVID guidelines apply. The Experimental Theatre “X” is located on the first floor of the Center for the Arts, directly north of the UNM Bookstore (one block north of Central) at Cornell and Redondo Drive.

For more information about the plays, please visit The Department of Theatre and Dance webpage.

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Tamarind Exhibitions: Danielle Orchard: Tender Observer
Works from 2019-2022 on view in the Tamarind Gallery, August 23-December 20
Opening reception: Friday, August 23 from 5-7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Danielle Orchard: Tender Observer showcases work made by the artist at Tamarind Institute from 2019 to 2022. Each collaboration is marked by subtle shifts in color and nuanced approaches to mark making, reflecting Orchard’s deepening engagement with the medium. During her most recent residency at Tamarind, Orchard’s studio practice focused on using “a variety of lithographic rubbing crayons and pencils,” which emulates the quality of a richly worked charcoal drawing, painting with liquid tusche, as well as “making reductive marks by scratching back into the drawing material” (Tamarind documentation sheet). The absence of color allowed the artist to concentrate on volume and light, employing the sharp contours of cubism while challenging classical notions of the muse. As far back as 1990, Joann Moser notes in her article A Living Tradition: Black-and-White Prints in an Age of Color, Tamarind Paper (Vol. 13), “many artists have consciously resisted the temptation to make prints in color. Instead they have chosen to make prints in black and white, continuing to explore the creative possibilities and expressive subtleties which have distinguished the graphic tradition during many centuries.” It is this kind of exploration that is a hallmark of collaborative printmaking at Tamarind and which is thoughtfully guided by Master Printer/Workshop Manager Valpuri Remling.
Throughout her work, Orchard complicates traditional portrayals of women as passive objects of desire. Her sculpturally-formed figures are often depicted from unexpected angles, unposed and unguarded. Her scenes, domestic and languorous in tone, depict women in repose and continually evoke questions about viewership, voyeurism, and the artistic ownership of the female form. By repositioning the female figure as a contemporary entity, detached from the constraints of the male gaze, Orchard breathes fresh life into the portrayal of women in art.
Orchard holds an MFA from Hunter College and is represented by Perrotin. Recent exhibitions include You Are a Serpent Who’ll Return to the Ocean, Perrotin; Page Turner at Perrotin, A Face for Every Season at Gallery Half Gallery, At the Seams at Perrotin, Pack den Badeanzug ein at Galerie Kornfeld, A Little Louder, Love at Jack Hanley Gallery, Embodiment at D.C. Moore Gallery, and Fauve at Geoffrey Young Gallery. More information about the artist can be found here.
Tamarind Institute, a division of the College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico, is a workshop, a gallery, and a center for collaborative printmaking. Tamarind faculty and staff conduct research, train collaborative printers, and produce and publish original artworks with emerging and established artists from a plethora of disciplines. Tamarind Institute’s lithography process represents the alchemy of art, craft, material and synergy between artist and printer, resulting in exquisite hand-pulled impressions.

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aug 23 (friday) 10:00am - dec 20 (friday) 5:00pm

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Tamarind Institute

2500 Central Ave SE

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