Arts and Culture (page 9)
Core III Students Examine Photographic Truth in Clark Humanities Museum Virtual Exhibition
Subjects/Objects: A Critical Look at Photographic Truth is now on display as a virtual exhibition at the Clark Humanities Museum. Sophomores Gillian Bell, Chloe Boxer, Molly Bradshaw, Madeleine Callan, Margo Collazo, Katie Eu, Anna Horne, Tsion Mamo, Vivian Monteiro, Emma Sar, and Aanya Subramaniam curated the exhibition as part of Fletcher Jones Chair in Art and Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day鈥檚 Core III class.
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An Artist in Her Own Right: Fran莽oise Gilot Turns 99
Artist Fran莽oise Gilot has quite possibly seen it all. She was kept as a teenage hostage under city arrest during the Nazi occupation of Paris, studied dance with a prot茅g茅e of Isadora Duncan, and took morning walks with Gertrude Stein鈥攁ll before the age of 25. Now, on November 26 of another turbulent year, Gilot will celebrate her 99th birthday.
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For Computational Photography Students, Rooms Become Cameras鈥攁nd Zoom Becomes a Subject
鈥淩ight from the beginning of this virtual learning period, I thought about how I could work with students to create an academic experience that would be shared, but also personal.”
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Spotlight on Faculty: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies Luis Sal茅s
As part of our ongoing series on Scripps鈥� faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications sat down with Luis Sal茅s to discuss non-Western Christianities, women鈥檚 rights in the Roman Empire, and Mexican-Russian fusion cooking.
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Alison Saar Returns Home with Scripps Presents and Gallery Exhibition
Perhaps you can go home again, after all: Scripps celebrates the return of alumna聽Alison Saar聽鈥�78, renowned sculptor and printmaker, this fall in聽Mirror, Mirror, The Prints of Alison Saar, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Saar, who unflinchingly confronts race and gender with a mix of bitter humor and tenderness, doesn鈥檛 confine her prints to paper.
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Meiver de la Cruz to Speak on Hanan Arts Panel about Latinas in Belly Dance
Meiver de la Cruz, visiting assistant professor of dance and Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow, will be part of a virtual panel discussion on Latinas in the transnational belly dance industry.
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鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥� Summer Series
Since joining Scripps as Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Meher McArthur has been serving up 15-minute talks on a single work of art from the College鈥檚 permanent collection in her聽鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥澛爈unchtime series of object-based talks. 鈥淓ven though we are all at home now, we can still get to know the artwork in the Scripps collection,鈥� says McArthur.
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The Back Story: Gallery Interns Offer New Perspective on Great Depression
Student interns at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery wear many hats. During their 2019鈥�20 internships, Ludwig intern Annabel Lind 鈥�22 and Turk intern Miriam Bankier 鈥�20 helped organize the sprawling archives of the gallery鈥檚 permanent collection, assisted with the College鈥檚 76th Ceramic Annual (the longest running ceramics show in the country), and curated their own exhibition from the collection.
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Senior Artists Explore Being Apart, Staying Together in Virtual Exhibition
The annual senior art exhibition is the capstone of Scripps鈥� studio art major. Seniors conceptualize an exhibition, install their pieces, draft artist statements and wall texts, and publicize the event as part of their senior theses. Usually on display at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, this tradition has necessarily been disrupted; but that鈥檚 not stopping these artists from showing their work.
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鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥� Lunchtime Series Moves Online
Since joining Scripps as Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Curator of Academic Programs and Collections, Meher McArthur has been serving up 15-minute talks on a single work of art from the College鈥檚 permanent collection in her 鈥淨uick Bite of Art鈥� lunchtime series of object-based talks. 鈥淓ven though we are all at home now, we can still get to know the artwork in the Scripps collection,鈥� says McArthur.
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