Join us for this special afternoon of singing and friends.

Shirley Verrett Award Presentation 
january 30, 2014 

When

Thursday January 30, 2014 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EST
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Where

Stamps Auditorium
1226 Murfin Ave
Ann Arbor MI 48109  

Directions to Stamps Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center

Link to Parking Map of North Campus

Note: A shuttle bus has been added to facilitate parking from Central Campus to the Stamps Auditorium. The bus will leave from Rackham at 4:15 pm (for those who want to attend the reception at 4:30) and 4:45pm for those who can only attend the ceremony.  It will leave the Walgreens Center at 6pm returning to Rackham (for those who want to attend Michelle Harris Perry) and then again at 6:30. 

Shuttle Service:
 
Rackham to Walgreen Center (Stamps Auditorium) - 4:15pm, 4:45pm
 
Walgreens Center to Rackham - 
6:00 pm, 6:30pm

 

 

Contact

Deborah S. Willis
Women of Color in the Academy Project, University of Michigan
734-764-6292
willisds@umich.edu 

Charles (OyamO) Gordon
Shirley Verrett Award Winner 

The Women of Color in the Academy Project is proud to announce that this year's Shirley Verrett Award will be presented to Charles (OyamO) Gordon, Professor of English Language and Literature, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Professor of Theatre and Drama, School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
This award recognizes a U-M faculty member whose work has supported the success of women in creative fields who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds and advances diversity as part of the University's educational mission.

Please plan to join us on Thursday, January 30 (4:30-6:30pm) at Stamps Auditorium. The award ceremony will be preceded by a light reception and include performances by acclaimed opera singer Marcia Porter and Daniel Washington, U-M's Associate Dean for Faculty and Multi-Cultural Affairs and Professor of Voice in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.  

There will also be a tribute to Lester Monts, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, 
and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, for his unwavering support and advocacy for WOCAP, and his vision for establishing the Shirley Verrett Award as a way of keeping her legacy alive at U-M. 


Shirley VerrettThe Shirley Verrett Award, was established in honor of the late University of Michigan James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice; a teacher who "would have walked the world over for her students." An internationally acclaimed opera singer who performed over 40 roles all over the world during the course of her illustrious four decade career, Ms. Verrett was one of the pioneering leaders in  the generation of black singers after Marian Anderson's historical Metropolitan Opera debut in 1955.

For more information on the award, please see http://cew.umich.edu/leadership/wocap/verrettaward

 The Shirley Verrett Award was established in 2011 by the University of Michigan Office of the Senior Vice Provost, and is administered by the Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) at the Center for the Education of Women.