Arts & Culture
Winter Issue of Wordgathering, a Digital Open Access Journal of Work From Disabled Writers and Artists, Now Live
The winter issue of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature is now live on Wordgathering鈥檚 new website. This is the quarterly journal鈥檚 52nd issue and the first under publication by the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach in…
Department of Drama Presents Shakespeare鈥檚 ‘Romeo and Juliet鈥
The Department of Drama is beginning the spring semester with William Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淩omeo and Juliet.鈥 Directed by faculty member Thom Miller, this production brings a fresh take to Shakespeare鈥檚 timeless classic about a pair of star-crossed lovers. 鈥淩omeo and Juliet鈥…
Black Reign Step Team Heads to Lincoln Center for 鈥楽tep and the City鈥 Championships
On Saturday, Feb. 8, the student-led Black Reign Step Team will head to Lincoln Center in New York City to compete in Step and the City. This first-of-its-kind, invite-only competition, organized by UpStaged Scholastic Productions and National Collegiate Performing Arts…
Helping Preserve the Works of an Important Early Black Feminist Educator, Activist and Author
As an outspoken advocate of abolition and women鈥檚 rights, Frederick Douglass gladly accepted an invitation to the first Women鈥檚 Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. It was events like this, and being part of the 鈥淯nderground Railroad,鈥…
VPA Students, Faculty Participate in Inclusive Music Education Pilot Program
A 黑料不打烊 music instructor is spearheading a new pilot program that introduces homeschoolers to the art of creative expression. Alina Plourde, who teaches oboe in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA),…
黑料不打烊 Architecture Announces Spring 2020 Visiting Critics
Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the School. Five studios will be held this spring. Benjamin Vanmuysen (Boghosian Fellow 2019鈥2020) Benjamin Vanmuysen will teach…
Light Work Presents 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work announced the 2020 Transmedia Photography Annual exhibition of photographs by seniors from the art photography program in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition runs through Saturday, March 7, at Light…
New Exhibitions Curated by Arts and Sciences Faculty and Student Represent Different Epochs in American History
The quote, 鈥淎rt is not what you see but what you make others see,鈥 by French artist Edgar Degas, can also be said for art exhibitions. The curator selects a theme, a concept and specific art pieces to convey a…
Designing for the United Nations
It was a coincidence that resulted not only in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) design students, but a first for the college鈥檚 School of Design itself. Rebecca Kelly, assistant professor of communications design, was…
‘Black Subjects in Modern Media Photography’ Examines Complexity and Paradoxes of Black Visual Modernity
鈥淏lack Subjects in Modern Media Photography: Works from the George R. Rinhart Collection鈥 is on display through March 13 at the 黑料不打烊 Art Galleries in the Shaffer Art Building. The exhibition of 145 photographic images includes work by news…