Summit City Music Theatre has announced that Gavin Thomas Drew is their new artistic director.
Drew majored in musical theater and directing at Oklahoma City University and has appeared on Fort Wayne stages for several years, earning multiple awards for such roles as Igor (Young Frankenstein, Fort Wayne Civic Theatre) and Snoopy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Summit City Music Theatre).
As a director, he has led casts to award-winning performances at the AACT Festival with The Studio Theatre in Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked as the camp director for the Stillwater Children’s Theatre for two summers, directing students through the MTI Junior Catalogue and original works. He has also worked and directed with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He currently teaches creative drama at the Fort Wayne Youtheatre.
As a profoundly deaf performer and director with cochlear implants, Drew takes pride in mentoring disabled/differently-abled casts and holding seminars on inclusion and accommodation for all talents.
He has guest lectured on disability in theater at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.
Submissions sought for Wells murals
The Wells Corridor Business Association and Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association invite local artists to submit their interest, experience, and designs for consideration to be commissioned to paint one of five temporary murals with the theme “Blooming” to be installed on vacant storefront windows along the Wells Street Corridor.
For more information, email brooke.klejnot@
cityoffortwayne.org.
Artlink hosting National Print Exhibition
Artlink Contemporary Gallery will host an opening reception for their 42nd National Print Exhibition from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, March 31. The juror award winners will be chosen prior to the opening.
This year’s exhibition was juried by professional artist and educator Bill Hosterman and will feature 58 contemporary printmakers working across all printmaking mediums.
Hosterman will also hold a ticketed monotype workshop from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at Purdue Fort Wayne’s Department of Visual Art & Design in Room 217. Tickets are $130, which includes supplies, instruction, and the time/facility to produce your own prints during the workshop. To register, go to
artlinkfw.org/bill-hosterman-workshop.
An hour before the workshop, Hosterman will present a free public lecture from 9-10 a.m. in Room 204.
Wunderkammer celebrates South Side
Wunderkammer Company’s next exhibition, “100 Years of South Side,” opens Saturday, March 26, commemorating the high school’s 100th anniversary and the talent it has produced.
The exhibition will consist of a large collection of alumni who have continued the creative practices they began in high school, as well as tributes to some of Fort Wayne’s most talented creatives no longer with us.
Suggested donation is $2, a cash bar will be provided, and Brava’s food truck will be on-site with 10 percent of the evening’s proceeds being donated to Wunderkammer Company’s IHCDA/Patronicity Fairfield Corridor Campaign: bit.ly/fairfieldcorridor.
Bunny photo ops throughout Fort Wayne
Local photography company KB Photo will be at multiple locations throughout Fort Wayne with opportunities to purchase photos with live bunnies.
Packages start at $20, and digital and prints are available. For more information, visit their Facebook page.
Writers can share work at The Ruin
The Ruin will host Short Fiction Saturday on Saturday, March 26, at 3 p.m.
The event is free and welcomes writers to share short pieces of their work as well as to hear and discuss the work of other local writers. Writers of all skill levels, genres, and subject matter are welcome.
The purpose of the discussion is primarily to share how listening to the story impacts us, rather than to identify how a story/poem could be better.
Any writers who are participating in the monthly prompts will be given priority for reading, but open mic readings from other stories, poems, and excepts will be welcomed, time permitting.
