Jan 6, 2015
Photo Gallery: Theater Presents Song of Extinction
Song of Extinction, a play by E. M. Lewis, was performed as readers’ theater in the Williams Center Gallery. Michael Pestel’s exhibition, Requiem, Ectopistes…
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Dec 10, 2014
Photo Gallery: Student Ensembles Celebrate the Holidays with Winter Performances
The Music Department celebrated the holidays with winter concerts by its student ensembles. Students from any major can perform in a variety of groups…
Nov 13, 2014
Photo Gallery: High-Flying Performance
Earlier this week, the Contemporary Music Ensemble presented Avian Requiem, an evening-length semi-theatrical piece. The work was composed by ensemble…
Oct 27, 2014
CaPA Challenges Budding Artists to Stretch their Limits
When he was a child, Evan Kenagy ’16 (Ridgefield, Conn.) would sit on the porch with his great aunt at her home in North Carolina and watch the birds…
Sep 10, 2014
Roethke Festival Examines Debate Over Fracking
The Roethke Festival will present a symposium Sept. 19 and 20 focused on the hot-button issue of hydraulic fracturing, more commonly referred to as fracking…
Aug 4, 2014
Hollis Ashby Named Director of the Performance Series
Hollis Ashby, former associate director of Cal Performances at U.C. Berkeley, has been named director of the Performance Series at the Williams Center…
Jul 25, 2014
A Fulbright for Combining Fact and Fiction
Art professor Karina Skvirsky will teach and create a film in Ecuador placing her great-grandmother in a historical narrative. In 1906, Karina Skvirsky’s…
Jul 25, 2014
Genna Asselin ’15 Helps Create Print Featured in Yale Art Gallery
Genna Asselin ’15 (Mendham, N.J.) had a hand in creating a professional print which has been placed in the Yale Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Asselin…
Jun 18, 2014
It’s Alive! The Arts, Science, and Engineering Combine in Frankenstein 2029
Ben Williamson ’16 was searching for something big, a project that would allow him to explore his passion for graphic design and digital photography…
May 27, 2014
Educational Entrepreneur of the Arts: Ellis Finger Reflects on 31 Memorable Years
By Geoff Gehman ’80 Ellis Finger helped make Lafayette’s Williams Center for the Arts a multimedia mecca. Over 31 years the building’s only director…