Dec 21, 2011
Lafayette Will Infuse the Arts Throughout Curriculum with Mellon Foundation Support
With major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lafayette’s vision of infusing the arts throughout the curriculum will become a reality. The…
Humanities
Dec 16, 2011
Students Experience the Connections between Art and Social Issues at O+ Festival
When Jim Toia attended the first O+ Festival last year, he knew it would be a great place to showcase his students’ work while opening their eyes to…
Dec 8, 2011
Photo Galleries: Poet Jayne Cortez and Artist Clifford Charles Work with Students
South African artist Clifford Charles and poet and film director Jayne Cortez visited campus last week for a series of student workshops, poetry readings…
Nov 30, 2011
Photo Galleries: College Theater Presents Rent and Tenn
In November, College Theater presented productions of Rent and Tenn. Winner of four Tony Awards in 1996 and the Pulitzer Prize, Jonathan Larson’s Rent…
Nov 29, 2011
Alumni Arts Institute: Grads Show Students the Secret to Their Success
The career path of an artist is full of unknowns—and that’s as it should be, accomplished poet and painter Ross Gay ’96 told Lafayette art students…
Nov 10, 2011
Danielle Sobol ’12 Finds the Connections Between Art and Science
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Danielle Sobol ’12 is concerned with liminalities. “A liminality is an in-between state. A liminal being could be an adolescent…
Nov 4, 2011
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…
Nov 4, 2011
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…
Nov 4, 2011
English Professor David Johnson Challenges Students to Question the Answers
You’ve seen this movie before, or at least one similar: Young, idealistic teacher is hired at a racially diverse, but not well-integrated high school…
Oct 25, 2011
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…