News: Blogs
Ongoing Blogs
Decentered
This blog documents seminars, displays, and performances sponsored by the Hurford Center.
Past Blogs
Creative Control
Howard Brown '12 will continue Creative Control by releasing music all summer and releasing a new project at the end of August, when school starts.
Digital Fame
Patrick Phelan '11 and Andrew Smith '11 seek to explore what it means to be a celebrity and the cultural half-life of fame in the age of condensing Warhol's "fifteen minutes" into a single viral moment.
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
Former HHC Student Seminar leader Genna Cherichello '11 will be in San Diego, CA, working with Aniruddh D. Patel, Ph.D. and Gail Knight, M.D. on their collaborative project, which focuses on how music affects physiological measures of stress in babies recovering from cardiac surgery.
People's Biennial
What do we expect to find in a gallery? What belongs in an "art space"? Over the course of the coming months, David Richardson '12 will explore precisely these questions through a new experiment in exhibit-making.
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Mandy Ball '11 has a Humanities Center internship with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, where she'll be helping with communications, government relations, fund-raising, and the production of a new television series.
PlayPenn
Laura Martin '11 has a Humanities Center internship with PlayPenn, a theater organization in Philadelphia that hosts a conference every summer in which several playwrights from across the U.S. are invited to develop their plays.
Mapping Identity
Janet Yoon '10 documents her work on Mapping Identity, an exhibit co-curated with Professor Carol Solomon and set to open Spring 2010 in Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.
among friends
The 2009 Hurford Humanities Center Mellon Symposium was a series of four simultaneous, collaborative workshops that teamed contemporary artists with Haverford students.
Speech Acts
Ariella Foss '09 explores speech and rhetoric in this blog designed to accompany the Speech Acts Reading Group. This reading group examines the greatest orators of our time to see the way they raised their voices, clenched their fists and captivated their audiences.
The Music of Erich Zann
Kyle McCloskey '11 chronicles the production process, from set and makeup designs to editing and score recordings, of creating a silent film at Haverford through the Student Arts Fund.
among friends: field trip guide
Documents the three days of non-stop field trips that students organized for Harrell Fletcher's visit to Haverford as part of the among friends Symposium. Field trip leaders posted reactions to and pictures of their trips.
Screening Music
How does music alter and enhance a film? How does film change the way we perceive music? Jane Holloway '11 and Genna Cherichello '11 will be exploring these questions and more through their Student Seminar blog.