SUMMER OF ARTSCAPE EXHIBITIONS AT TOWSON UNIVERSITY

Philadelphia Meets Baltimore:  Conceptions and Perceptions

Center for the Arts Gallery

On display from July 10 to August 2. Opening reception: Saturday, July 12, 1-3 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Philadelphia area artists: Neil Anderson, Charles Burwell, Alice Oh, Tim McFarlane, and Thomas Vance.

Baltimore area artists: Seth Adelsberger, Karin Birch, Ellen Burchenal, Lawrence Cromwell, Kay Hwang, Michelle Kong, and Michael Weiss.

Curator:  J. Susan Isaacs

This exhibition concentrates on the “new” abstraction taking place in Philadelphia and Baltimore seen in paintings, fibers, and sculpture.

MANY MOONS FESTIVAL 2008
Center for the Arts
Saturday, September 6, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

In response to the overwhelming demand of over 2000 participants of the previous Many Moons Festival 2006, the Asian Arts & Culture presents the 4th Many Moons Festival. Towson University’s Center for the Arts will come alive with this vibrant and popular festival that engages the community in the richness and diversity of Asian cultural traditions.

This full day festival features performances by accomplished dancers and musicians, enthralling hands-on arts and crafts workshops and martial arts demonstrations. The Crossroads Marketplace will be filled with colorful handicrafts and delicious Asian foods and teas. Traditional Asian healing arts will be demonstrated by skilled practitioners. Asian community non-profit organizations are invited to set up tables to provide information about their services to the public. In the Asian Arts Gallery, a dynamic visual arts exhibition will be open to the public. It is a full day filled with delightful learning and discoveries for all ages.

Tickets: $15 adult; $10 Asian Arts & Culture Center members; $5 students and children over 3; free for children 3 and under with a paying adult

THE CRUCIBLE
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Steven Satta
Center for the Arts, Mainstage Theatre
Friday, October 24, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 25, 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 26, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, October 29 - Friday, October 31, 8 p.m.

Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play, this drama bout the Puritan purge of witchcraft in Old Salem is a gripping historical play and timely parable of contemporary society. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, fiends himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.

Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 seniors and students