Arts and Culture (page 4)
Safeguarding Our Shared Cultural Heritage
Students use an X-ray spectrometer to examine artifacts from the Scripps collection. By Caitlin Antonios As a person tends to grow nostalgic with age, they often keep an experience from […]
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Framing a Legacy: Celebrating Kirk Delman’s Impact on Scripps and the Arts
Kirk Delman in his office at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. By Caitlin Antonios While thousands of students, faculty, and staff have passed through Scripps’ gates over the past 38 […]
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Alexandra Hsu ’11 Short Film Featured as Part of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles’ InFocus: Asian Cinema Program
Elm Tree Lawn Non-profit NewFilmmakers Los Angeles’ (NFMLA) selected 13 film makers to showcase for its InFocus: Asian Cinema program and InFocus: Immigration program including short film “Unwavering” directed by Alexandra Hsu ’11. […]
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Dwandalyn Reece ’85 Speaks about The Wiz’s Groundbreaking Broadway Debut 50 Years Ago
Eleanor Joy Toll Hall The Wiz, an all-Black stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, debuted on Broadway in 1950; “It made an impact,” Dwandalyn Reece ’85 told MSN. […]
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Alison Saar ’78 Honored by Socrates Sculpture Park
Alison Saar, Snake Man, 1994, edition AP 3/4, lithograph and woodcut, 28 x 37 in., Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation Socrates Sculpture Park, an organization committed […]
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Alison Saar ’78 Wins 2025 David C. Driskell Prize
A Scripps student works on printing an Alison Saar ’78 sketch on the Scripps College Press. Atlanta’s High Museum of Art announced Alison Saar ’78 will receive the illustrious David […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Abdiel Jacobsen Shares Culture Through Dance
Image credit: Abdiel Jacobsen By Emily Glory Peters The New York Times once described Assistant Professor of Dance Abdiel Jacobsen’s approach to dance as “expansive,” “liberated,” and “joyful.” At Scripps […]
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“There is No Sole Genius”: Mary Routt Chair of Writing Éireann Lorsung on the Philosophy of Making Art
Éireann Lorsung (left) and Chloe Martinez By Caitlin Antonios In Scripps College’s Hampton Room above Malott Commons on a spring Thursday afternoon, white banners with stark black lettering decorated the […]
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Elizabeth Rosemary Plane Sage ’44 Leaves $1.1 Million to Scripps College’s Art Department
Rosemary Sage ’44 By Emily Glory Peters Elizabeth Rosemary Plane Sage ’44 was more than a talented painter and art collector—she was visionary with a heart for young artists at […]
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To Beijing and Beyond: Malena Sparano ’26 Explores Linguistics as a Mellon Mays Fellow
Malena Sparano ’26 is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow studying linguistics By Nichola Monroe ’27 Some may argue that research in the humanities can be overshadowed by growing developments in […]
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