Mar 12, 2018
Consider the Octopus
By Bryan Hay Ed Kerns has been exploring levels of consciousness for years and using layers of paint to create an abstract understanding of awareness.…
Art
Mar 6, 2018
Students Share Tales of Art Icons
By Bill Landauer Why did Romans select an arch as the monument to honor Emperor Constantine? Why don’t liturgical vessels that make up the Vrap treasure…
Feb 12, 2018
Releasing Hidden Treasures of Art
By Bill Landauer You don’t need to look hard to find works of art at Lafayette. From Tiffany Studio stained-glass windows to gilt-framed oil paintings…
Dec 29, 2017
Standing Avant-Garde
By Bill Landauer Throughout early fall, columns of gnomes guarded an entrance to campus. Their white plaster bodies resembled miniature, rifle-toting members…
Nov 7, 2017
Painting Life
By Stephen Wilson Your mother is crying. Use the paint and paper before you to tell us why. You pick up a paintbrush and open tubes of paints. Soon strokes…
Oct 31, 2017
Art
8:30 a.m. It was supposed to be a good morning. Yesterday, Samantha Pastron ’18 had put seven of her clay sculptures for her senior capstone project…
Oct 17, 2017
There’s No Place like Dome
By Bryan Hay and Bill Landauer During Homecoming Weekend teams of faculty and students will erect a 40-foot geodesic dome on the Quad to celebrate the…
Aug 22, 2017
From Photographer to Award-Winning Filmmaker
A director and producer at Vice Media, Nina Horowitz ’11 has won awards and recognition for a number of shorts films, most notably The Margaret Lambert…
May 15, 2017
Five Faculty Elected to Emeritus Status
Five faculty elected to emeritus status will be recognized at Commencement on Saturday: Donald Chambers, Walter E. Hanson/KPMG Peat Marwick Professor of…
Apr 4, 2017
A Shield Bearer for the Commons
By Bill Landauer The shield for Alliance—one of the five Commons in Lafayette’s Connected Communities Program—looks like an expensive wooden relief…