Arts and Culture (page 22)
Scripps College Announces Spring 2017 Season of “Scripps Presents” Public Events Series
Featuring luminaries Anna Deavere Smith, Ralph Nader, Chris Hayes, Eugenia Cheng, plus extraordinary contemporary writers Sarah Manguso, Jade Chang, Elif Batuman, Jami Attenberg, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Maggie Nelson and […]
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Scripps Presents: Spring 2017 Season Announced: Highlights Include Anna Deavere Smith, Ralph Nader, and Eugenia Cheng
Beginning in February, Scripps will host a slew of public events as part of the spring 2017 Scripps Presents season. The College will welcome acclaimed artists, writers, journalists, and politicians to campus to share their own work as well as engage in live—and lively—conversations about the issues and ideas that inspire them.
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Pin Design by Katy Lind ’06 Commemorates Women’s March
Scripps College alum Katy Lind ’06 and business partner Nate Stevens have created a decorative pin available for sale online to support women’s rights causes and in anticipation of the Women’s March scheduled for January 21, 2017, in the nation’s capital and in communities across the U.S. and worldwide.
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Spotlight on Academics: The Dance Department’s Fall Concert Is “In the Works…”
Beginning on Thursday, December 1, students from the Scripps and Pomona Dance Departments will take the stage at the Pendleton Dance Center for four performances of student-choreographed contemporary dance. The choreographers—Maile Blume ’17, Rae Fredericks ’17, Willa Hevly (PO ’17), Sharon Keenan ’17, Amy Oden (PO ’18), Madelyn Shaughnessy (PZ ’17), and Maia Welbel (PO ’17)—are dance majors and minors as well as students who are simply passionate about dance.
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Christina McPhee ’76 Shares Her Art With Students, Community
Scripps alumna Christina McPhee ’76, media artist and painter, received an enthusiastic response from students, faculty, and the community of Norwalk, Calif., for her solo show at Cerritos College Art […]
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Clever Scripps College Alumnae Make Election Products
Scripps College alumnae are putting their creative talents to good use after the contentious 2016 Presidential Election. Katy Lind ’06 is selling an election-themed soap product for “folks who want […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Gabriela Bacsan, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Gabriela Bacsan earned her BA in Spanish and Latin American literatures and political science at UC Berkeley. She completed her MA and PhD in literature, with a specialization in Latin American cultural studies, at UC San Diego. Her fields of interest are Caribbean studies, transnational and intersectional representations and conceptualizations of queerness in Latin America, historical memory studies, critical geographies, and tourism studies.
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Elizabeth Payne LaBau ’03 Featured in Washington Post
Elizabeth Payne LaBau ’03, a dessert blogger, is featured in a Washington Post article about entrepreneurs whose online businesses are considered influencers through the power of social media and are […]
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Professor Ken Gonzales-Day Among Prominent Artists in Vanity Fair Photograph
Ken Gonzales-Day, professor of art at Scripps College, was selected to be among 72 artists featured by Vanity Fair in the magazine’s photographic re-enactment of a celebrated collection of artists from 1968. Vanity Fair assembled prominent artists representing art and architecture for its December issue.
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Scripps and Pomona Dance present “In The Works…,” a Concert of Student Danceworks
“In The Works…” is the annual fall concert by students of the Scripps and Pomona Colleges dance programs. The concert will take place Thursday, Friday, Saturday, December 1, 2, and […]
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