The Arts
Photography by Art Students and Professors Part of Lehigh Valley InVision Exhibits
Photography by art professors Karina Skvirsky and Greta Brubaker, Imogen Cain ’12 (Perkasie, Pa.), and Jack Fedak IV ’13 (Boulder, Colo.) is being featured in exhibits this month as part of the InVision: Month of Photography in the Lehigh Valley, sponsored by ArtsQuest. Skvirsky and Brubaker are showing work in the Spectrum exhibition running through Nov. 20 at [...]
Re-Imagining Othello in Venice: Two Professors and Berrisford Boothe ’83 Collaborate to Create 10 Etchings
Working in the very city where the character Othello struggled against racial hostility, Curlee Holton has created a series of 10 images re-imagining Shakespeare’s character in the context of contemporary awareness of issues of race, identity, and culture. Holton, Roth Professor of Art and founding director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI), made the Othello [...]
Photo Gallery: Students Let Creative Juices Flow during Write-a-Thon
In celebration of the “National Day on Writing,” the College held a write-a-thon in the Williams Visual Art Building. Students wrote with pen and paper, laptops, and a “writing wall” and used live prompts (a juggler, musicians, and performance artists) for inspiration. The program was sponsored by the College Writing program, the Department of English, [...]
College Theater Presents Man = Carrot Circus
As part of the Art of Urban Environments Festival in Easton, College Theater presented performances by the internationally acclaimed Bread and Puppet Theater. Seven Vermont puppeteers and musicians collaborated with members of the Lafayette and Easton communities to put on Man = Carrot Circus. The performances included live music, singing, puppets of various shapes and sizes, [...]
Students Stretch Artistic Limits through Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship Program
Artistic creations often exist as lasting monuments to their creators, and each year, a select group of students gets an exciting opportunity to leave their own stamp on the College’s vibrant art community. Now in its third year, the Creative and Performing Arts (CaPA) Fellowship supports students in turning their artistic visions into realities. CaPA [...]
Jim Toia Explores Wonders of Natural World in Latest Exhibits
For Jim Toia, director of community-based teaching, there was no “aha” moment when he discovered a passion for art – it was always there. With the living environment as his muse, Toia continually explores and expands human awareness of the natural world. “I am stunned by [nature’s] ability to display unbelievable beauty at one moment [...]
Photo Gallery: Exhibit Opening for Artist-in-Residence Karima Muyaes
As part of this year’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, El Beso de mí Arte (The Kiss of My Art) will run Oct. 6-Nov. 20 in the EPI Riley Temple Gallery. The exhibit features paintings, drawings, and jewelery by Mexican artist Karima Muyaes. She is working with students and faculty as an artist-in-residence at the [...]
Photo Gallery: College Theater Presents The Laramie Project
College Theater presented a staged reading of The Laramie Project Sept 29, Sept. 30, and Oct. 1 at the Williams Center for the Arts. The Laramie Project depicts the events surrounding the death of Matthew Shepard, a young, gay university student who in 1998 was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of [...]
Art Professor Robert Mattison Celebrates Liberal Arts Education in New Exhibit
Robert Mattison, Metzgar Professor of Art, understands the importance of a liberal arts education. Not only has he experienced its benefits, he is celebrating it through curating and writing the catalogue for Black Mountain College and Its Legacy. The exhibit opened at the Loretta Howard Gallery in New York City Sept. 15 and will continue [...]
Students Soak Up Art and Culture of Spain through Rothkopf Scholars Program
Each time Shannon Cannizzaro ’12 (Verona, N.J.) looks at her favorite painting, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, she notices something different. This spring, she had the chance to study the masterpiece depicting the bombing of the Basque city during the Spanish Civil War from only inches away. Cannizzaro spent two weeks studying the art and culture of [...]
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