Category: Living and Arts

The last two Senior Exhibit pairs at the List this semester incorporate paintings, drawings, sculpture, installation and photography work. Via online interviews, the artists shared their thoughts on art, inspiration, and their work to be exhibited. Kira Grennan and Anna Ghublikian’s exhibit will open in the List on May 16, while Amy DiBiase and Sophie Horowitz’s exhibit will open on May 23. [...]

This weekend, Haesun Han and Eve Lampenfeld’s senior exhibits in the List Gallery incorporate two-dimensional work that takes an image to the brink of abstraction in dynamic and intriguing ways. The exhibit’s opening reception will be today, Friday, May 9, at 4 pm. The gallery will be open Saturday through Monday from 12-5 pm. [...]

Three graduating Swarthmore students have been placed in the Teach for America program this year: Ashanti Hubbs in the Mississippi Delta region, Micah Katz in the Rio Grande Valley region, [...]

Valerie Naranjo, whose credits as a percussionist include performing with Saturday Night Live, Philip Glass, and the Lion King on Broadway, is leading a gyil workshop from 2-5 and performance at 7:30 today, May 5, in Science Center Room 101. [...]

A remembrance of things past, whether conscious or not, seems to hover in the work of both Sara Haley and Linda Huang, whose exhibits are opening today in the List Gallery…

A workshop for the Ghanaian percussion instrument the gyil (pronounced jeel singular, JEE-lee plural) will be held in Sci 101 on Monday, May 5, from 2-5 pm, followed by a concert performance at 7:30. Valerie Naranjo, an award winning percussionist and one of two westerners to have received first prize at Ghana’s Kobine Festival, will lead the performance and workshop…

And so begins a rainy reading week. However, for the bold explorer willing to splosh his or her way to a train station or support fellow Swatties by attending on-campus [...]

Nick Forrest and Meghan Downie Senior Exhibits’, held in the List Gallery this weekend, explored the possibilities of space both within a canvas or work and throughout the exhibit in each artist’s distinctly different style…

As we close in on the end of classes and the beginning of finals, it’s useful to remember that weekends are the best time to take a good, long study [...]

Swarthmore's favorite (and only) sketch comedy group Boy Meets Tractor won a college comedy competition at the Helium Comedy Club, in Philadelphia, last week. According to group member [...]