Jane Chu in a Senior Piano Recital

This is the program for the senior piano recital of Jane Chu. This recital took place on April 14, 1980, and June 24, 1980, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center

Performing arts centers : does uptown culture stimulate downtown vitality?

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Performing arts centers have been touted as a strategy for revitalizing downtowns by increasing activities that bring in residents with higher incomes, tourists, arts employees, educated workers, and housing. Despite their popularity, civic leaders have encountered complexity in these projects, from financial challenges, to delayed openings and operating deficits. Previous downtown studies examine public facilities, such as stadiums and cultural institutions, through essays, surveys, case studies, or by quantifying transactions exchanged between the public and the facility. This dissertation focuses solely on performing arts centers, excluding all other forms of public facilities and cultural venues, by examining self-collected data on literature-based characteristics of 218 downtowns with and without performing arts centers, all over a seven-year period of time. It was hypothesized that the presence of a performing arts center would contribute to increases in the values of all downtown revitalization characteristics, and community characteristics, as well as organizational attributes of the performing arts center itself (age, size, and revenue types) would in turn, increase the values of the overall health of the performing arts center. Through the use of multiple linear regressions, this research shows that performing arts centers can play a role in revitalizing downtowns. This research also shows that a single characteristic is not solely responsible for revitalizing downtowns; rather, the increased vitality results from a confluence of the characteristics. Endogeneity tests show that a performing arts center is less likely to enter a deserted downtown bereft of vitality. Instead, performing arts centers serve as harbingers of revitalization, confirming the presence of downtown vitality, before they proceed to activate vitality further. Finally, through the use of binary logistic regressions, community characteristics are identified in order to determine the conditions of downtowns that would be most equipped to open a performing arts center, as compared with downtowns that could not

Art Horne and Jane Chu in a Joint Recital

This is the program for the joint recital of senior tenor Art Horne and junior pianist Jane Chu. Melissa Stroud and the OBU Woodwind Ensemble directed by Ralph Rauch accompanied Horne. The recital took place on February 2, 1978, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

David Chism in a Faculty Recital

This is the program for the faculty recital featuring trumpet player David Chism and pianist Jane Chu. Trumpet player Ross Grant and organist Dr. Jack W. Jones also performed. This recital took place on April 29, 1976, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Ann Rogers and Jane Chu in a Joint Senior Recital

This is the program for the joint senior recital of mezzo-soprano Ann Bishop Rogers and pianist Jane Chu. Pianist Sylvia McDonnough, organist Elaine Vickers, and flautist Dean Morris assisted Rogers; pianist Virginia Queen assisted Chu. The recital took place on January 29, 1979, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Debra Franks in a Senior Flute Recital

This is the program for the senior flute recital of Debra Franks. The recital was held on December 6, 1976, at 8:00 p.m., in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. Franks was assisted by Jane Chu on piano, Ralph Rauch on flute, and the String Ensemble

Woodwind Recital

This is the program for the woodwind recital featuring Dean Morris, Debra Fanks, Jane Chu, Becky Davis. Additionally, the flute ensemble, including Becky Davis, April Davis, Pam Estes, Nancilou Poole, Jane Chu, and Debra Franks, performed. This recital took place on April 27, 1976, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Debra Franks and Karen Claiborne in a Joint Junior Recital

This is the program for the joint junior recital of Debra Franks and Karen Claiborne. Pianist Jane Chu accompanied Franks, who performed on the flute; pianist Dr. Jack W. Jones accompanied Claiborne, who performed on the alto saxophone. The recital took place on December 4, 1975, at 5:00, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall