BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by A lan Govenar X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877656387 DTSTART:20250124T150000Z DTEND:20250125T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877658436 DTSTART:20250125T150000Z DTEND:20250126T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877660485 DTSTART:20250126T150000Z DTEND:20250127T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877662534 DTSTART:20250127T150000Z DTEND:20250128T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877663559 DTSTART:20250128T150000Z DTEND:20250129T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877665608 DTSTART:20250129T150000Z DTEND:20250130T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877667657 DTSTART:20250130T150000Z DTEND:20250131T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877669706 DTSTART:20250131T150000Z DTEND:20250201T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877671755 DTSTART:20250201T150000Z DTEND:20250202T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877673804 DTSTART:20250202T150000Z DTEND:20250203T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877674829 DTSTART:20250203T150000Z DTEND:20250204T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877676878 DTSTART:20250204T150000Z DTEND:20250205T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877678927 DTSTART:20250205T150000Z DTEND:20250206T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877680976 DTSTART:20250206T150000Z DTEND:20250207T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877683025 DTSTART:20250207T150000Z DTEND:20250208T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877685074 DTSTART:20250208T150000Z DTEND:20250209T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877687123 DTSTART:20250209T150000Z DTEND:20250210T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877689172 DTSTART:20250210T150000Z DTEND:20250211T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877691221 DTSTART:20250211T150000Z DTEND:20250212T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877693270 DTSTART:20250212T150000Z DTEND:20250213T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877694295 DTSTART:20250213T150000Z DTEND:20250214T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877696344 DTSTART:20250214T150000Z DTEND:20250215T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877698393 DTSTART:20250215T150000Z DTEND:20250216T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877700442 DTSTART:20250216T150000Z DTEND:20250217T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877702491 DTSTART:20250217T150000Z DTEND:20250218T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877704540 DTSTART:20250218T150000Z DTEND:20250219T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877705565 DTSTART:20250219T150000Z DTEND:20250220T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877707614 DTSTART:20250220T150000Z DTEND:20250221T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877709663 DTSTART:20250221T150000Z DTEND:20250222T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877711712 DTSTART:20250222T150000Z DTEND:20250223T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877713761 DTSTART:20250223T150000Z DTEND:20250224T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877715810 DTSTART:20250224T150000Z DTEND:20250225T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877716835 DTSTART:20250225T150000Z DTEND:20250226T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877718884 DTSTART:20250226T150000Z DTEND:20250227T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877720933 DTSTART:20250227T150000Z DTEND:20250228T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877722982 DTSTART:20250228T150000Z DTEND:20250301T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T121810Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48459877725031 DTSTART:20250301T150000Z DTEND:20250302T000000Z DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City --Pho tographs by Alan Govenar features over a dozen images that document Chines e opera performers. As noted in the Dual Lives exhibition catalog by inde pendent curator and critic Barbara Pollack: “For more than twenty-five y ears\, Govenar has documented the recipients of the National Heritage Fell owship\, awarded annually since 1982 by the National Endowment for the Art s for excellence in the folk and traditional arts. In so doing\, he has de veloped two nationally broadcast radio series\, published books\, produced interactive DVD-ROMs\, and organized a touring exhibition in association with ExhibitsUSA. And it is this work that led him to Qi Shu Fang\, a mast er of Peking-style Chinese opera\, whose company is the focus of the curre nt exhibition. Govenar and Mrs. Qi were only able to communicate through a translator\, but when he interviewed and photographed her in 2001\, he kn ew that he wanted to do more. […]. A mere photograph could barely captur e the enormity of Qi Shu Fang's persona or her achievements. Govenar retur ned to this subject\, over and over again\, and featured Mrs. Qi in his yo ung reader book Extraordinary Ordinary People (2006) and then in his film Master Qi and the Monkey King\, a compelling documentary that follows the daily lives of the star and her performers as they prepare for a major per formance in New York City. It took nearly ten years for Govenar to come up with a way to communicate the mesmerizing skill of these artists through photography\, requiring him to rethink some of his preconceptions about wh at a documentary photography project should look like and how it should fu nction.”\n\n \n\nThis exhibition documenting Chinese opera performers ru ns concurrently with the solo exhibition The Light in Between: Photograph s by Alan Govenar\, on view in the SP/N Gallery. The latter show\, an exh ibition of photographs\, artist books\, and other media by Alan Govenar\, represents a 50-year retrospective. Through these images Govenar illuminat es the deep texture of people and cultures that are often marginalized and overlooked. His photography embodies a highly original holistic approach\ , linked inextricably to his work as a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwrig ht\, folklorist\, and filmmaker. By nature\, Govenar is a collaborator\, a n artist committed to community engagement and proactive social change.\n\ n \n\nGovenar has authored more than 40 books\, directed two dozen films\, produced two 52-part radio series for national broadcast\, created three off-Broadway musicals\, and designed multimedia installations at PhotoLond on and the International Center of Photography.\n\n \n\nBIOGRAPHY: Alan Go venar is a writer\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, photographer\, folklori st\, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts\, a non-profit orga nization he founded in 1985 to advance essential perspectives on historica l issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the auth or of more than forty books\, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires\, Para dise in the Smallest Thing\, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo A rtist\, Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Music\, Untold Glory\, Texas Blu es: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound\, Everyday Music\, Texas in Paris\, O sceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter\, A Pillow on the Ocean of Time\, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemo n Jefferson (coauthored with Kip Lornell)\, and Deep Ellum and Central Tra ck: Where Cultures Converged (coauthored with Jay Brakefield). \n\nHis ph otographs and artist books are in the collections of the Centre Georges Po mpidou (Paris)\, Library of Congress (Washington\, D.C.)\, San Francisco M useum of Art\, Chicago Art Institute\, Columbia University\, New York Publ ic Library\, Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, and Museum of Fine Arts (Bo ston). Govenar has produced and directed numerous films in association wit h NOVA\, PBS and ARTE. His feature-length documentaries Down in Dallas Tow n: From JFK to K2\, Looking for Home\, Myth of a Colorblind France\, Extra ordinary Ordinary People\, Tattoo Uprising\, The Beat Hotel\, Master Qi an d the Monkey King\, and You Don’t Need Feet to Dance are distributed by First Run Features. \n\nGovenar’s off-Broadway musicals Blind Lemon Blue s and Lonesome Blues (created with Akin Babatundé) and Texas in Paris hav e been staged at the York Theatre (NewYork)\, Forum Meyrin (Geneva)\, Mais on des Cultures du Monde (Paris)\, Leidse Schowburg (Leiden)\, and other t heatres in Europe and the United States.\n\nGet connected. Join the Bass S chool mailing list. GEO:32.98621;-96.748295 LOCATION:Edith O'Donnell Arts & Technology Building (ATC)\, ATC Lobby Galle ry SUMMARY:Dual Lives: Chinese Opera in New York City -- Photographs by Alan G ovenar URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/dual-lives-chinese-opera- in-new-york-city-photographs-by-alan-govenar CATEGORIES:Arts & Performances CATEGORIES:Campus & Community END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR