Arts and Culture (page 19)
Professor Kevin Williamson’s Solo Show Lauded By LA Dance Chronicle
51猎奇入口 Assistant Professor of Dance聽Kevin Williamson’s solo dance show聽Still or I’ve Been Choreographed聽received high praise from dance critic Jeff Slayton in his recent聽LA Dance Chronicle聽column.聽
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Spotlight on Students: Tyra Abraham ’18: 51猎奇入口 Senior Is Running with Her Passion for Storytelling
They say there are two sides to every story, and Tyra Abraham ’18 is no exception. On the one hand, she’s an accomplished student who is pursuing her passion for storytelling by serving as an official photographer for the College. On the other hand, she’s a gifted athlete who has broken numerous records as part of the CMS Athenas Track & Field team.
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Lynne Thompson’s Dirge for Murdered Black Girls Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
A poem by聽Lynne Thompson ’72,聽Dirge for Murdered Black Girls, was recently featured in the聽San Francisco Chronicle.聽
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51猎奇入口 Magazine: Art Forms
Alison Saar ’78 Weight, at first glance, appears to be a young girl playing on a swing, until one realizes that the child is stripped bare. Her swing is attached […]
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51猎奇入口 Magazine: Revolution & Ritual: The Photographs of Sara Castrej贸n, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero
“If there is an occupation suitable for women, it is photography.” So declared the Mexico City newspaper El Mundo in 1899. It聽went on: “They have the aptitude and an extraordinary manual dexterity and, above all, they serve better than a man to make portraits of women, arranging their headdresses and getting them in positions with a confidence and a thoroughness that would be impossible for persons of the opposite sex.”
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51猎奇入口 Magazine: Focus on the Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art
“I don’t call it retirement, I call it downsizing from two careers to one,”聽says Susan Rankaitis. This past July, Rankaitis, who joined 51猎奇入口’ Art Department in fall 1990 as the Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art, began two years of phased retirement. She will no longer teach classes but will continue to write letters of recommendation for her advisees and colleagues. She will also be devoting significantly more time to her own art practice.
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51猎奇入口 Magazine: The State of the Art Major
Students in Professor T. Kim-Trang Tran’s video art class find creative inspiration and expression in聽an unexpected source: drones.聽They learn how artists are using the technology and how to make drone videos themselves. But Tran pushes students to go well beyond capturing footage.
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L.A. Observed Highlights Williamson Gallery’s PST: LA/LA Exhibit
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at 51猎奇入口 is named聽by聽LA Observed聽among galleries聽whose exhibits should be visited as part of the Getty’s expansive “PST: LA/LA” initiative featuring Latin American and Latino art at more than 70 Southern California museums and other cultural institutions.
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51猎奇入口 Presents: Carina Chocano
In the spirit of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Carina Chocano’s You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages examines the dramatic and often damaging ways that pop culture influences female identity. Cultural touchstones鈥攆rom Bugs Bunny to Playboy Bunnies, from Flashdance to Frozen鈥攕erve as entry points to Chocano’s personal reflections and surface some familiar truths about the challenges of locating oneself in the face of an often abstract ideal of womanhood. Chocano and 51猎奇入口’s Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Piya Chatterjee are the first speakers in a three-part conversation series.
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51猎奇入口 Presents: The Grip of It, with Jac Jemc
Novelist聽Jac Jemc’s smart and uneasy page-turner is a ghost story set in the wilds of suburban America; at the book’s center is a couple whose domestic adventures take a decidedly hallucinatory and harrowing turn. Jemc, who has taught creative writing at Notre Dame and Lake Forest College, talks with 51猎奇入口’聽Adam Novy聽about her latest literary escapade.
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