Alum Brings 'Horton' to Life

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More than 50 years after young readers first fell in love with the imaginative and kind-hearted elephant in Horton Hears a Who, the story comes alive on the big screen in a new CG-animated film . . . under the talented direction of an alumnus from the College of the Arts. Steve Martino (left), who studied at ACCAD, and earned his bachelor's degree from Design and a master's in Art Education, is one of the co-directors of the film created by East Coast-based Blue Sky Studios. Martino -- who previously was art director on the animated film Robots -- and director Jimmy Hayward stayed true to author Dr. Seuss's themes, characters and visuals in the colorful movie that opens March 14. The story takes place on the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool. . . when Horton the elephant heard a small noise. Voices are provided by Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler and others. Photos courtesy of Blue Sky Studios. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! TM & c 2008 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Notable News

The OSU Urban Arts Space announces free public programs at lunchtime on Tuesdays and after work on Thursdays. Catch the first of these Tuesday, March 11, noon to 1 pm, for the reading of Theodicy with Alan Woods. Local performers present a reading of Judy Juanita's play, which was the first runner up in the 2007 Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition. On Thursday, March 13, 5:30-6:30 pm, join artists Fredrik Marsh and Ardine Nelson for a discussion about their exploration of the Lazarus building for the exhibition Linking the Past to the Future. At 6:30 pm, co-curators Lesley Ferris and Ruth Tompsett lead a talk and tour through Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival with a look at how to read a Carnival costume.

Music alumna Stacie Boord -- who also studied in Dance -- is starring in the world premiere of Tabloid the Musical, which opened at Easton Town Center in Columbus March 9. The full-length musical from Shadowbox comments on the American obsession with celebrity and features Boord as a tabloid columnist named Sally Dubrowski. Boord is a founding member of Shadowbox, and has performed in countless sketch comedy, rock 'n roll shows and musicals during her 20-year tenure there. The musical continues until April 27.

Ken Rinaldo (Art & Technology) is exhibiting his Autotelematic Spider Bots and Machinic Drift through April 20 at the Stewart Center Gallery and Robert L. Ringel Gallery at Purdue University. In addition, he will spotlight his fish-driven robots The Augmented Fish Reality, Our Daily Dread about the machine nature of food production and Machinic Diatom about the emerging nanotech worlds invading our bodies.

Daniel Avorgbedor (Music and African American & African Studies) wrote a book review essay of Steven Mithen's The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. He also gave a conference presentation at the Conference on Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago in February.