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Transylvania wins AIKCU’s annual "Battle of the Bumpers" contest for second year in a row

Posted on March 1, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—With the help of alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends, Transylvania University is the winner in the 2009 Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU) “Battle of the Bumpers,” taking the title for the second year in a row. The contest is an annual competition among the 20 AIKCU campuses to put the most campus license plates on Kentucky highways, and in turn raise the most money for student scholarships. To win, Transylvania supporters purchased or renewed 735 license plates. In 2008, Transy supporters purchased or renewed 689 license plates to help Transylvania top the AIKCU campus totals. The custom plates advertise allegiance to Transylvania while supporting current students; $10 from the sale of each plate is returned directly to Transy’s general scholarship fund. “I am impressed with the number of alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends who choose to show their Transylvania pride on their license plates,” said Transylvania President Charles L. Shearer. “In particular, the support of our loyal alumni has been remarkable.” The Kentucky Independent Higher Education series plates took to the roads in 2002. Each independent college and university had its own plate, but they all shared a common design theme. Thanks to advances in license plate printing technology and some changes in state regulations, AIKCU members were able to work with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to redesign their plates in late 2007. The new plates went on sale in January 2008.

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Dixieland-style jazz band “Red Hook Ramblers” to perform at Transylvania March 2 at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

Posted on February 26, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Red Hook Ramblers, a traditional Dixieland-style jazz band from Brooklyn, New York, will give two free public concerts at Transylvania, Tuesday, March 2, at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater. The six-piece Dixieland jazz band includes a tuba, cornet, trombone, clarinet, banjo and drums, with many members contributing vocals. Audiences are frequently surprised by how powerful and exciting this instrumentation can be. Since 2005, the Red Hook Ramblers have constantly been in demand for their New Orleans-style jazz at New York clubs, parties, festivals, churches, burlesque shows and more. Recent highlights have included a sold-out concert with Squirrel Nut Zippers, leading the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s celebration of Armstrong’s birthday, an ongoing residency at New York City’s famous Slipper Room and a documentary on the band produced by BRIC Arts. In 2010, the band plans to tour the U.S. and Europe. The concerts are supported in part through a grant from the Ernest Woodruff and Susan Mitchell Delcamp Fund. For more information on the Red Hook Ramblers, visit www.redhookramblers.com. For more information on the concerts at Transylvania, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

Transylvania’s Kenan Visiting Artist Zoé Strecker exhibits installation piece "Auction Block" in Morlan Gallery Feb. 19-March 26

Posted on February 16, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Auction Block (detail) LEXINGTON, Ky.—Zoé Strecker’s Auction Block, an installation sculpture that includes choreographed audio recordings, ceramics and mirrors that create the visual illusion of infinity, opens Friday, Feb. 19, in Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery. The opening reception, from 5-8 p.m., is part of Lexington’s Gallery Hop. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs through March 26. Gallery hours are weekdays, noon-5 p.m. (The gallery will be closed during Transylvania’s spring break, March 15-19.) Strecker says that humor plays a serious role in the investigation of the web of dramatic tension involved in the buying and selling of objects. She asks, “What has value for whom? When and why does value shift? How does social pressure affect our judgment as economic creatures?” The acclaimed artist will discuss her exhibit from 12:30-1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23, in the gallery. The talk is free and open to the public. Strecker is currently on the faculty at Transylvania, where she serves as the Kenan Visiting Artist and teaches ceramics. She has an MFA in ceramic sculpture from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a bachelor’s in English from Grinnell College. She is most known for her public art commissions in Kentucky (Harrodsburg and Berea) Memphis, Tenn., Fairbanks, Ala., and Boulder, Colo. She has twice received Kentucky’s most prestigious art award, The Al Smith Fellowship, among many other grants and awards. Strecker has appeared on Kentucky

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Transylvania University Theater presents Eugene Ionesco’s "Rhinoceros" with guest director and student assistant director

Posted on February 12, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Lexington native Sully White is the guest director for Transylvania University Theater’s next offering, Rhinoceros, an absurdist comedy by Eugene Ionesco, and senior drama major Elizabeth Guy steps into dual roles as performer and assistant director. The play opens Thursday, February 18, in the Lucille C. Little Theater. Ionesco’s play is a wild and wacky satire on our willingness to be led over the cliff. In the play, the townspeople of a village suddenly experience a rampaging rhinoceros, and though some questions its meaning, most blindly see it as inevitable, and even choose to join the herd. Sullivan (Sully) Canaday White comes to Transylvania during her short-term break from Wofford College, where she has been on faculty since 2007. White spent five years as director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theater of Louisville where she directed more than 50 shows including Proof, Fool for Love, and Reckless. She taught for several years at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, held on Transylvania’s campus,, and worked for the North Carolina Theater, where she designed a new Conservatory for Performing Arts. She has also worked in New York directing off-Broadway for the American Theater of Actors, New Georges, LaMaMa Experimental Theater of New York and the New York International Fringe Festival. Guy, a drama major from Salina, Kansas, has portrayed Iphiginia in Earthrock of Argos, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Anna in Closer, Elmire in Tartuffe and Rosencrantz in

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"Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica" actress Mary McDonnell to speak at Transylvania Wednesday, March 10; limited seating, ticket required

Posted on February 10, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Two-time Academy Award nominated actress Mary McDonnell will speak at Transylvania on Wednesday, March 10, as part of the university’s William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series. The event, An Evening with Mary McDonnell, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium, is free and open to the public. (Limited seating; ticket required.) Tickets to the public will be available beginning Monday, February 22. McDonnell is widely recognized for her dynamic character portrayals. She was nominated for Academy Awards for her work in Dances with Wolves and Passion Fish, and received an Emmy nomination for her role as Eleanor Carter on ER. Other film credits include Independence Day and 12 Angry Men. On television, McDonnell played the role of President Laura Roslin in the mini-series and subsequent series Battlestar Galactica and she has appeared in Grey’s Anatomy. Equally accomplished in theater, McDonnell played the title role in the Broadway adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, and played Miss Alma in Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke. Off-Broadway, she performed in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child and John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo. She received an Obie Award for her performance in Emily Mann’s Still Life. Tickets to the public will be available for pick-up beginning Monday, February 22, in the William T. Young Campus Center (west corner of Broadway and Fourth Street). Up to four tickets per person will be available. The campus center hours are Monday-Thursday from 8:30

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