Humanities
Samantha Schwarz ’12 Examines Post-9/11 World through Film
Studying film isn’t something that Samantha Schwarz ’12 planned when she began her undergraduate career. If college has taught her anything, says the English major, it is to seize opportunity when it comes along. This spring, she’ll be among the first Lafayette students to graduate with honors in film and media studies. With raging debates [...]
Photo Gallery: College Theater Presents Rossum’s Universal Robots
Lafayette College Theater presented its production of R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots last weekend in the Williams Center for the Arts. Written in 1920 by Czech author Karel Capek, the play is an expressionistic journey into genetic engineering on a mass scale and predicted a mechanized world without emotions and without individual rights. It introduced the [...]
Art by Curlee Holton Featured in Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit and Morris Art Museum
Two pieces of art by Curlee Raven Holton have been included in a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, African American art 1950-Present, and Celebrating our Legacy at the Morris Art Museum in Morris, N.J. Holton’s large-format 1993 etching “Bred for Pleasure” will be part of the Smithsonian exhibit, as well as the permanent collections of the [...]
On Her Way: Huong “Lyn” Nguyen ’15 Finds Her Voice by Writing Award-Winning Play
Huong “Lyn” Nguyen ’15 has often felt that being a non-native speaker of English hinders her ability to communicate. But playwriting has helped her find her voice and given her an outlet to express herself. Nguyen (Upper Darby, Pa.) is the author of On the Way, which explores the lives of a Vietnamese family after the [...]
25 Students Invited to Present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
A total of 25 students have been invited to present their research at the 26th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) March 29-31 at Weber State University. NCUR is the largest conference of its kind in the country with approximately 2,200 undergraduates from more than 250 colleges and universities in attendance. This is Lafayette’s 25th [...]
Photo Gallery: Lafayette Gets Yarn Bombed
Sticks, Hook, and the Mobius: Knit and Crocheting Go Cerebral, an exhibit in the Williams Center Gallery, kicked off with a “yarn bombing” led by guest curator and Easton resident Susan Huxley. Members of the Lafayette and Easton communities were invited to help attach afghans to the handrail of the staircase that links North Third [...]
Photo Galleries: Student Ensembles Present Holiday Performances
The music department celebrated the holidays with winter season concerts from its student ensembles. Students from any major can perform in a variety of ensembles including Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Marquis Consort, and Percussion Ensemble. Check out photo galleries from three of the performances. Marquis [...]
Lafayette Will Infuse the Arts Throughout Curriculum with Mellon Foundation Support
With major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lafayette’s vision of infusing the arts throughout the curriculum will become a reality. The foundation has awarded a grant of $800,000 to support the College’s Global Arts Infusion and Visiting Artists Initiative. The key objectives are to integrate further the performing and visual arts throughout the [...]
Students Experience the Connections between Art and Social Issues at O+ Festival
When Jim Toia attended the first O+ Festival last year, he knew it would be a great place to showcase his students’ work while opening their eyes to the power of street art and certain grim economic realities. Held in the scenic enclave of Kingston, N.Y., the one-of-a-kind festival allows uninsured artists and musicians to [...]
Photo Galleries: Poet Jayne Cortez and Artist Clifford Charles Work with Students
South African artist Clifford Charles and poet and film director Jayne Cortez visited campus last week for a series of student workshops, poetry readings, and lectures. Their residencies were made possible by Lafayette’s David L. Sr. and Helen J. Temple Visiting Artist Fund and the African studies program. Clifford Charles Jayne Cortez The David L. [...]
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