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Purdue President Martin C. Jischke speaks to Anna Pao Sohmen today (Monday, Sept. 12) after unveiling a bust of Sohmen's father Yue-Kong Pao, for whom the new visual and performing arts hall is named. Sohmen graduated from Purdue in 1966 with degrees in psychology and sociology and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2003. The $43.4 million hall is the College of Liberal Arts' home to the four divisions that make up visual and performing arts: art and design, music, dance, and theater.
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Lisa Lee Peterson, professor and assistant head of the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, teaches a weaving class in the new Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. Weaving is part of the textiles area in the department's Division of Art and Design.
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Professor Richard Rand's movement class for actors practices in one of the new acting studios in the Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. The Division of Theatre's classes and stages were previously divided among Stewart Center, Matthews Hall, Coulter Hall and one of the Quonset huts that dated back to World War II. The Experimental and Black Box theatres are being replaced with the Nancy T. Hansen Theatre and the Carole and Gordon Mallett Theatre, respectively. Both theaters provide additional seating as well as more space to design scenic elements and new technology in sound and lighting areas.
(Purdue News Service photos/David Umberger)
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