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The Kreft Arts Program at Concordia University strives to stimulate the artistic, intellectual, and creative experiences of students and the community. The series includes art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, author appearances, and theatrical productions by artists from around the world and by Concordia’s own students and faculty.
This year’s program will be the second to incorporate a thematic approach, reflected in many of the events, that seeks to provide unity and coherence to the series. The 2009-2010 theme is “Creative Adaptation.” How does the adaptation or modification of earlier forms, methods, or works become a creative act in itself? What are the ways in which the arts are rooted in a “useable past” while addressing a new condition, a new technology, a new era? What can we learn from the way artists, writers, and composers respond to and appropriate their precursors? The arts address this issue formally and thematically in many and profound ways—in stories, poems, and plays; in memoirs; in musical compositions and performances; in drawing, painting, and sculpture. This issue forces us to consider goals and directions: what is the nature and purpose of art itself and how can it adapt itself to the way we live now? What place does it have in our lives as Christians in the 21st century?
The Kreft Arts Program at Concordia University will seek to give Concordia students multiple and varied opportunities to connect and work with artists at the highest level of their artistic field, and will attempt to link all arts events and visits to the curriculum. Kreft Arts aims to have a profound impact on students’ course of study, and to connect in a deliberate way with faculty in disciplines other than the arts, in order to undergird a broad cross-section of undergraduate and graduate curricula.
We salute Print-Tech, Inc. for their extraordinary printing work and their continued sponsorship this fall season. On behalf of the Concordia faculty, staff, and students who devote their time and talents to this artistic endeavor – welcome to the fall 2009 Kreft Arts season.
Mark Looker, Ph.D.
Director, The Kreft Arts Program at Concordia University
Professor of English
Concordia University Ann Arbor
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