Arts and Culture (page 6)
Anna-Louise Walton ’14 Uses Practical Interdisciplinary Skills in Music Composition Career
Professors in the music departments at both Scripps and Pomona College were instrumental (no pun intended) in affirming her passion for music, and their support helped give her the confidence to pursue a career in music. Her time at Scripps also equipped her with the practical skills necessary for a career in the arts; namely, knowing how to write.
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At Sunlit Residency, Cándida Jáquez Conducts Research into All-Female Mariachi Band
” . . . we often are scrambling for time to really have the space to sit down and do something like writing,” Jáquez said of the residency.
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heidi rhodes Receives 2023–24 Creative Capital Award for Book Project
The project, Vital Signs, “foregrounds an anti-ableist way of being, premised on relationality and interdependency, with special attention to form as part of sick/disabled practices for living differently.”
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Ellen Finkelpearl’s Collaborative Book Translated into Thai
The book, co-authored by philosopher Peter Singer, is an abridged version of Apuleius’ Golden Ass with essays about the book as a text sympathetic to the sufferings of animals.
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jean Chen Ho, Mary Routt Chair of Writing
“Writing is a solitary activity, but finding community in like-minded thinkers and readers can be so wonderful in the writing process,” Ho says. “In all my classes, I want students to gain a greater sense of themselves and their own work, to learn how to see themselves more clearly and with more careful attention.”
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In the Media: Scripps College Art Exhibition on Display at Descanso Gardens, Pasadena Now Reports
The exhibition is from the Scripps College collection and was previously on display at the College’s Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery in 2021.
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Julia Lum Examines Meaning of 18th-Century Belongings and Watercolors for Nuu-chah-nulth Creators and Their Ancestors
Lum’s research explores how belongings and watercolors can be read across cultures and eras, centering the perspectives of Nuu-chah-nulth creators and the descendants of those who met Cook in 1778.
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Rita Roberts Named Finalist for 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Rita Roberts, Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Chair in History and Biography and professor of history and Africana studies, was named a 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize finalist for her book I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era.
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Exhibitions at MOCA, Toronto Art Museum Feature Work by Ken Gonzales-Day
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and the Toronto Art Museum are both hosting exhibitions that feature work by Ken Gonzales-Day, Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and professor of art.
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Dwandalyn Reece ’85 to Deliver Black History Month Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University
Her talk, which will focus on the history of Black music, will take place on February 23 at 7 p.m. and will be livestreamed.
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