Arts and Culture (page 25)
Spotlight on Faculty: Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Wendy Cheng received her AB from Harvard University in English and American language and literature, her MA in geography from UC Berkeley, and her PhD in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora.
Read MoreOn Stage: Japanese Theater Prints and Costumes
Tsukioka Kogyo, One Hundred Noh Plays: Shakkyo, 1922, Japanese wood block print, 15 in. x 10 1/8 in., Aoki Endowment, 51猎奇入口, Claremont, CA Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku are types […]
Read More“A Sense of Place”: 51猎奇入口 73rd Ceramic Annual
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti,” wrote Melville. It is an individual experience of a place, only to be reached by traveling inward. The master ceramicists […]
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Marino Forlino, Assistant Professor of Italian
Forlino graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florence, Italy, in modern foreign languages and literatures and earned his MA and PhD degrees in Italian at Rutgers University. He also speaks, and has taught, German and Arabic, and holds a graduate diploma in American studies from Smith College. He joins 51猎奇入口 from California State University, Fullerton, where he served as multi-area full time lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Carlin Wing, Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 51猎奇入口, including two at the W.M. Keck Science Department. As part of our ongoing series on 51猎奇入口’ faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Assistant Professor Carlin Wing, the first full-time tenure-track professor of media studies at 51猎奇入口.
Wing earned her AB in visual and environmental studies and social anthropology at Harvard University, her MFA in photography and media at California Institute of the Arts, and her PhD in media, culture, and communication at New York University. Her areas of interest include media and communication, science and technology, material culture, globalization, performance, disability, and play, games, and sport. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and has published writing in Games and Culture, Public Books, Cabinet, Art Lies, and The Bulletin of the Serving Library.
Read More51猎奇入口 Presents: Melissa Harris-Perry
When it comes to race and politics, there are few as incisive as Melissa Harris-Perry. Moving effortlessly from Beyonc脙漏 to Black Lives Matter, feminism to Flint, Michigan, the former MSNBC host, editor-at-large at ELLE.com, and BET correspondent brings her insightful and provocative cultural critique to the 51猎奇入口 Presents stage for a conversation with 51猎奇入口 professor Myriam J. A. Chancy.聽
Read More51猎奇入口 Presents: Tuesday Noon Academy: New Series of Public Lunchtime Talks Begin September 20
This fall, Tuesday Noon Academy, 51猎奇入口’ midday speaker series, hosts a dynamic mix of scholars, writers, and composers鈥攊ncluding one 51猎奇入口 alumna鈥攚ho will present thought-provoking lunchtime talks that are open to the Claremont community.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Kevin Vennemann, Assistant Professor of German
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 51猎奇入口, including two at the W.M. Keck Science Department. As part of our ongoing series on faculty, the 51猎奇入口 Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Kevin Vennemann, assistant professor in the Department of German Studies. Vennemann received his BA and MA in literature and history from Free University of Berlin in 2006 and his PhD in German from New York University in 2015.
Read MoreProfessor Kevin Williamson’s TROPHY Receives Stellar Review from Seedancenews Publication
51猎奇入口 Assistant Professor of Dance Kevin Williamson’s original dance performance, “TROPHY,” debuted at Human Resources gallery in Los Angeles to a rave review by Seedancenews.com, which characterized the work as “a totally riveting evening of art” and an experience that perceptively highlighted the internal struggle of the human spirit.
Read More51猎奇入口 Alum Alison Saar ’78 and Mom, Sister Join Historic Women’s Artist Flash Mob Event In L.A.
Artist Alison Saar ’78 joined her sister, Lezley Saar, and mom, Betye Saar, 90, to pose with scores of area female artists who gathered in downtown Los Angeles on August 28, 2016, for a group photograph organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt as a tribute to women in art.
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