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Haverford College
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For Faculty: Arts

Performances/Residencies • Leaves of Grass • Exhibitions • Mellon Arts Residencies • Dialogues on Art

The Center promotes artistic programming that navigates the boundaries of forms and expression. In so doing, we hope to prompt self-conscious reflection on the part of students and faculty about tradition, innovation, and the roles of maker/performer and audience. Seeking to foster a deeper understanding of the issues, materials, and meanings at play in a given artistic experience, the Center is interested in enriching faculty scholarship and the curriculum through the study of performance, visual culture, and material objects. Toward that end, Center staff members work alongside faculty sponsors and curators, providing logistical, professional, and technical support.

Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies
Haverford // Swarthmore // Bryn Mawr

Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies

Matmos performs in front of their own video art as part of an HCAH-sponsored residency that included an artist talk, a seminar with students and a concert.

Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Tri-College Creative Residencies Program encourages Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore faculty from across the three divisions—natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities—to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas. The program takes as its primary goal the broad integration of the arts through small liberal arts college curricula, seeking particularly to stimulate the creation and enhancement of courses and broader curricular missions by supporting extended, multi-dimensional arts residencies that combine pedagogy, public presentation, and informal exchange among artists, faculty, students, the wider campus, and area communities.

By "artist" we mean not only practitioners of traditional media—fine arts; music; creative writing; filmmaking—but also a spectrum of creators, including innovative practitioners of scientific narrative and imaging, creative non-fiction writers, performance artists, illustrators, architects, sonic fabulists, environmental bricoleurs, explorers of virtual media and spaces, "outsider" image-makers, multimedia curators, and others working at the frontiers of what we think of as "art."

With the aim of advancing the arts throughout Tri-College curricula, the Mellon Foundation is particularly interested in supporting artist residencies organized by faculty outside the traditional creative arts departments at the three Colleges; however, all three institutions strongly encourage joint proposals made by experienced arts faculty and those working in departments not traditionally associated with the arts. In addition, special priority will be given to projects that involve faculty and students from more than one college within the Tri-College Consortium.

Residencies may vary in duration, frequency, focus, and methodology, taking a variety of forms: class visits, public lectures, and small workshops; longer-term collaborative creative projects with faculty and students; and specially-designed team-taught classes involving Tri-Co faculty members and a visiting artist. They may be undertaken by faculty as part of a specific class, as a concentration- or department-wide residency, or as a multi-departmental project. Tri-College faculty have already developed a number of potential models over the past few years with support from a Mellon Planning Grant; more information on those residencies can be found at haverford.edu/hhc/mellonarts.

How to Apply

Eligibility

This grant aims to integrated the arts across the curriculum by specifically supporting artist residencies organized by faculty outside the traditional creative arts departments at the three Colleges. However, all three institutions strongly encourage joint proposals made by experienced arts faculty and those working in departments not traditionally associated with the arts. In addition, special priority will be given to projects that involve faculty and students from more than one college within the Tri-College Consortium.

  • Fall Deadline for Spring 2013 Residencies: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
  • Spring Deadline for Fall 2013 Residencies: Friday, March 29th, 2013

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**Applications submitted more than one semester in advance, particularly for larger projects, are encouraged.

Faculty should submit their proposals via email to their own institution's Creative Residencies representative; please write "Creative Residencies Proposal [Last Name]" in the subject-line. Joint proposals spanning multiple campuses should be sent to all relevant representatives for review. Prior to submitting a proposal, please contact your host institution's Creative Residencies representative to discuss the project, budgeting details, and other logistics:

Tom W. Bonner
Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Coordinator
tbonner@haverford.edu

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About the Grant

Mellon Arts Residency Planning Grants (2008-2011)

Mellon Arts Residency Grants

Underwritten by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities has begun to develop a program for faculty across the three divisions to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas. The Center seeks particularly to stimulate creation and enhancement of courses and broader curricular missions by supporting extended, multi-dimensional arts residencies that combine pedagogy, public presentation, and informal exchange among artists, faculty, students, and the wider campus and area communities. This program thus augments the Center's ongoing aim of stimulating thinking about how art in all media inflects and illuminates the wide variety of subjects considered throughout our curriculum.

By "artist" we mean not only practitioners of traditional media—fine arts; music; creative writing; filmmaking—but also a spectrum of creators, including innovative practitioners of scientific narrative and imaging, creative non-fiction writers, performance artists, multimedia practitioners, illustrators, architects, philosophical fantasists, sonic fabulists, environmental bricoleurs, explorers of virtual media and spaces, "outsider" image-makers, adventurous curators, and others working at the frontiers of what we think of as "art."

Rather than working from a single model, the Center hopes to cultivate in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities a diverse assortment of approaches to these residencies, which we envision varying in duration, frequency, focus, and methodology. Recognizing that residencies which unfold along a number of trajectories require careful preparation, the Mellon grant provides particularly for a period of planning during which faculty can, in collaboration with the artist(s), develop a residency's structure, goals, and logistical strategies.

We also hope to encourage varying models of collaboration, which might take place across departments (note: such partnerships can involve Fine Arts and/or Music faculty, but cannot be limited to either department alone), divisions, and even campuses (e.g., linking HC and BMC faculty). Possible uses of the grant's resources for planning these extended residencies include:

  • Invitations to artists for short campus visits, during which they'll engage faculty and students in discussing how the work they do can be integrated into courses, departmental curricula, and/or the wider intellectual and cultural landscape of the campus;
  • Visits by faculty to speak with artists about their work and possibilities for its presentation in various HC venues;
  • Visits by faculty to exhibitions, performances, studios, archives, etc. in order to see how an artist and his/her work actually functions in various public and institutional spaces.

The planning grant has been completed as of June 30, 2011. The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities will be working with Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore to launch a multi-year implementation grant from the Mellon Foundation beginning in September 2012.

2010-11

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    MATMOS at the Hurford Humanities Center
    Public Lecture, Wednesday, April 13th & Performance
    Saturday, April 16th:     Using samplers, analogue keyboards, field recordings, and guitars, Matmos--a.k.a. M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel--make atmospheric, idiosyncratic electronica.
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    in/visible: Disability and the Arts
    Friday, February 25, Stokes Auditorium, 2:00PM: Join us for a symposium that will introduce students and faculty across the disciplines to the vitality and richness of disability arts and culture. The symposium brings together noted scholars and artists to speak to disability as it informs the practice of art.
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    PROBLEMY: Rancher Remodel
    October 6, 2010 Haverford College and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts students remodeled the Dufala Brothers' Chainlink Rancher.
Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas
May 2, 2011 Organized by Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature John Muse, artist Hank Willis Thomas came to campus to discuss a possible future collaboration on an exhibit

2009-10

2008-09

Performances / Residencies

HCAH welcomes suggestions for staging arts events, including performances, short-term (3-5 day) artist residencies, and exhibits. In particular, we seek:

  • Performances and experiences that are framed by conversations with performers, artists, and critics;
  • Events that allow for sustained interaction with artists in several different settings, e.g., in the classroom, at the studio, in informal conversation, over several days, or at several points during a semester;
  • Programs that relate to themes raised in other current Center initiatives, such as a Faculty Humanities Seminar, Working Group, or Curriculum Development Grant.

How to Apply

Use the Event/Residency Application Form PDF. In addition, more details should be included with these sorts of projects. Faculty sponsors/curators are encouraged to work with the Center staff to draft proposals with the following details:

  1. Audience, Curriculum, Programming
    • Sponsoring or curatorial faculty member(s)
    • Proposed visitor with title, affiliation, & evidence of distinction
    • Proposed date(s) of visit & possible alternate date(s)
    • NB: HCAH cannot sponsor events held on Family Weekend or Alumni Weekend
    • Proposed activities during visit, e.g., concert, performance, exhibit, lecture demonstration, classroom visit, public talk
    • The visitor's history with the College (Has the visitor previously been to Haverford? If so, when?)
    • Discussion of how this program relates to your work and how it might enrich the cultural life on campus or the work of your colleagues
  2. Material Concerns
    • Technical requirements (Preferred location; capacity; A/V needs? Lighting? Stage set-up? Piano? Music stands? Green room facilities?)
  3. Budgetary Issues
    • Opportunities for co-sponsorship with other funding sources
    • Provisional budget including artist's fee, travel, technical support (sound, lights, materials), publications
    • Provisional publicity ideas

Date Deadlines: Spring 2013 (and beyond) events are due via email to Associate Director Emily Cronin at ecronin@haverford.edu by 5 p.m.Friday, Friday, October 26, 2012. Next application deadline will be Friday, March 29, 2013. Proposals for events that require more advance planning are also welcome.

Some questions you might consider in your proposal:

  • How does your proposal relate to current or past initiatives of the HCAH? Does it, for instance, build upon themes raised in a Faculty Seminar, Curriculum Development Project, Working Group, or other initiative?
  • How would this event serve as a point of inquiry for a concurrent course or research project in the Humanities? With what cultural (con)texts or interpretive modes does it grapple?
  • What specific connections do you envisage among different departments or disciplines as a result of this visit? Have you approached colleagues about ways to collaborate around this event?
  • Will the artists be available for pre-program lectures, lecture-demonstrations, classroom visits, or other events outside the theater, concert hall, gallery, or other presentation space?
  • Have you contacted colleagues in Fine Arts, Music, or an appropriate field of language, literature, or social science about how the event might relate to curriculum and programming they are considering?
  • Have you checked with Nancy Merriam (in the case of performing arts events), Matthew Callinan (in the case of fine arts exhibitions at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Stokes 102, or elsewhere on campus), for advice about your project and possible schedule? NB: The Center cannot sponsor events taking place during the College's Family and Alumni Weekends.
  • Will the event have an audience beyond the Haverford College community?
  • Can you think of local scholars, institutions, or cultural organizations with an interest in this event? How might we contact them?
  • Do the Haverford College libraries own materials that might relate to this project?

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' annual Performance/Arts Series is anchored by a generous grant from The Leaves of Grass Foundation.

Funds from Leaves of Grass are intended to support visits from distinguished artists, filmmakers, public intellectuals, musicians, dancers, and others who will not only offer significant presentations to the public but will also lead smaller groups of faculty, students, and community members in sustained reflection on the meaning and significance of what they do. The Center Steering Committee is particularly committed to employing Leaves of Grass resources for events that challenge the campus community to fresh thinking about art and culture.

Upcoming Events

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2010-11

2009-10

2008-09

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    A Drop in the Ocean: Photographs by Patrick Singleton
    This exhibition showcases Patrick Singleton '82's study of human interaction at various beaches throughout the nation. John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center Gallery, Stokes Hall Rm. 102. Friday, April 17 - Sunday, May 31, 2009. Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 2009, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
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    "American Roots" Concert Series
    Celebrating African American, Latin American and Native American traditions in concert music. This concert series is sponsored by the Guest Artist Series, the John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center, the Distinguished Visitors' Office, and the Native American Fund, in cooperation with the Arboretum Society, the Magill Library Special Collections, and the performance course Music 207: Topics in Piano.
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    The Foundations of the Age of Benevolence in Britain, 1690-1740
    In the early eighteenth century, voluntary associations were enshrined at the heart of British public life. The philanthropy and sociability of these organizations underpinned a self-proclaimed “age of benevolence” - how may we account for this moral valorization of civil society in Britain? Presented by The Library, Hurford Humanities Center, and the Office of Alumni Relations.
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    "Show Me the Franklins": Performance by Dr. Amanda Kemp and Theatre for Transformation
    A fresh perspective on Benjamin Franklin, who died as president of the abolitionist society without ever freeing one of his own slaves. Sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the Hurford Humanities Center, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Office of Quaker Affairs, and the Women’s Center.
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    Holocaust-Themed One-Woman Show Sunday, November 9
    The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center presents “An Evening with Madame F”, a musical drama by Claudia Stevens, visiting scholar/artist at the College of William and Mary. The performance will take place November 9, at 3 p.m. in Marshall Auditorium of Roberts Hall.
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    The Aesthetics of Interconnectedness
    Los Angeles artist Pato Hebert explores art and social justice in a public talk and semester-long residency. He will also give a talk and present an installation on Friday, December 5th in Stokes 102.
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    Positive: HIV/AIDS in Uganda
    The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center presents a photography exhibit about HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The exhibit brings together the work of photographers Meredith Montague BMC '03 and Jenna Mulhall Brereton BMC '96.
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    Louis Massiah Video Workshop & Working Group
    The Hurford Humanities Center is pleased to sponsor two workshops this fall on documentary film-making techniques, to be conducted by award-winning documentarian Louis Massiah.

2007-08

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    Classical Manipuri Dances of India
    Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, a classical Manipuri dancer, research scholar, and teacher, is one of the four internationally renowned Jhaveri Sisters, whose names have become synonymous with Manipuri Dance. As part of their national tour, the troupe held a four-day residency on campus that included a free performance; a lecture entitled "Manipuri Dancing: From Temple to Theater"; a lecture and demonstration on "Classical Elements of Manipuri Dance"; and a lecture and demonstration on "The Role of Rhythm in Manipuri Dance and Drumming."
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    Violin Performance
    South Indian violinist V.S. Nalasinham was our composer-in-residence from September 24 to October 7, 2007. In addition to being a composer, Mr. Nalasinham is an accomplished violinist both in the Karnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical traditions, and he is the founder and first violinist of the Madras String Quartet. During his residency, Mr. Narasimhan offered workshops on South Indian classical music and composition using South Indian musical elements. He gave two performances: the first was a traditional South Indian classical concert, and the second included students in a string quartet concert featuring some of his recent and highly original "fusions" of South Indian and Western classical music.

"Foreigner," a one-woman play written and performed by Anisa George, depicted how faith, identity and culture clash, as she reenacted her upbringing and solo journey to Islamic Iran in search of her Bah‡'i roots.

Poet Roger Nonair-Agard came to campus in conjunction with the College's Women's Center for a reading of his work as part of Black History Month.

2006-07

"The Flying Words Project"
The Humanities Center funded the bringing Deaf poets "The Flying Words Project" to Haverford as the closing event for the College's "Representing Disability: Theory, Policy, Practice" conference.

Japanese Music Series
February 3 - A hands-on Taiko (big drum) Workshop with Stuart Paton Sensei of the Burlington Taiko Group from Vermont.
February 15 - James Nyoraku Schlefer and Ensemble East.

"Tales of a Few Cities," Drawings and Sketchbooks by Barry Nemett at Haverford College.
The exhibit consisted primarily of large-scale, multi-paneled drawings derived from places where the artist has lived – in the U.S., France, and Italy. Although the images are a result of direct observation, many of these drawings bring together locations from each of the countries to form a unified, seemingly realistic, yet altogether invented landscape. Also including some of his sketchbooks in the exhibit, Nemett served as artist-in-residence with the Haverford Fine Arts Department on September 18th and 19th and November 28th and 29th. The residency included several artist talks, a Philadelphia art tour, and a landscape workshop and advanced critique session with Fine Arts students.

Events:
September 18, opening reception
September 19, talk: Barry Nemett's work in relation to literature, poetry, and film
November 29, talk: "Storytelling Without Words: How Paintings Speak"

2005-06

The Humanities Center funded the bringing of playwright, actress, and performance artist Sarah Jones to Haverford to stage a preview of her Tony Award-winning performance in "Bridge and Tunnel" (opened in January 2006) as the kick off event for a three-day Unity Fest. Her performance was followed by a question and answer session and dinner with students and members of the Unity Fest Committee in the Dining Center.

Japanese Music series:
A hands-on Taiko (big drum) Workshop with Stuart Paton Sensei of the Burlington Taiko Group from Vermont, Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall.

James Nyoraku Schlefer and Ensemble East, performed a mix of traditional and contemporary pieces for shakuhachi (bamboo flute), shamisen (Japanese banjo) and koto (Japanese zither) in MacCrate Recital Hall, Union. Called "A Master of the Shakuhachi" by The New York Times, James Nyoraku Schlefer is a leading performer and teacher of shakuhachi in New York City.

2004-05

Flying Words Project
A collaborative performance using mime, body and sign language, and voice, featuring Peter Cook, a poet and storyteller who is deaf and signs, and Kenny Lerner, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who is Peter Cook's hearing voice. The performance was in conjunction with a Tri-Co conference, "Signs and Voices: Language, Arts, and Identity from Deaf to Hearing," Faculty Sponsor: Kristin Lindgren, Visiting Lecturer in the Writing Program

Four Horizons Quartet
An afternoon of chamber music featuring Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time," Ingrid Arauco's "Fantasy-Quartet," and Erwin Schulhoff's "Duo for Violin and Cello, Marshall Auditorium, performed by Charles Abramovic (piano), Allison Herz (clarinet), Karen Bentley Pollock (violin), and Michal Schmidt (cello). The program featured a pre-concert talk by Jerry Levinson, who is Professor of Music at Swarthmore College and a leading American pupil of Messiaen's, about "Quartet for the End of Time." The piece was composed during the winter of 1940-41, when the composer was a prisoner of war at Gorlitz in Poland. The work was written for performance by the composer and three fellow musician inmates and its premier took place in the camp. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Freedman, Professor of Music

Printmaker in Residence Series
Faculty Sponsor: Hee Sook Kim, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

October 4-9, Kelly Reemtsen, California based print maker
October 5, 4:30 p.m., Artist Talk, Chase Auditorium: "Lifestyle in the 50s, 60s and 70s"
November 16-21, Gloria Escobar, Columbia-born print maker
November 17, 1:30 p.m., Book Binding Demonstration, Arnecliffe Studio and at 4:30 p.m., Artist Talk, Chase Auditorium: "From the Parts to the Whole"
February 21-26, Jackie Battenfield, artist, curator, arts administrator, teacher
February 22, 4:30 p.m., Artist Talk, Sharpless Auditorium: "Day Burn," about the artist's prints and paintings, and their interactive relationships
March 28-April 2, Lisa Makie, New York based printmaker and painter
March 30, 1:15 p.m., Xerox Printmaking Demonstration, Arnecliffe Studio
March 29, 4:30 p.m., Artist Talk, Chase Auditorium: "From Book to Installation"

Exhibitions

The college exhibitions program invites faculty to consider developing exhibitions of art and/or objects as an enrichment of their teaching and scholarly interests. Guided by the Exhibitions Coordinator, the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities' Staff will work closely with faculty to mount exhibitions that make best use of the college's spaces, collections, and other resources to extend cultural literacy through the display of visual and material items. Beyond use of Haverford's own collections, we invite proposals for traveling exhibitions, single and group artist shows, as well as visiting curators.

Faculty interested in sponsoring or curating an exhibit are encouraged to work with Matthew Callinan, Exhibitions Coordinator, (mcallina@haverford.edu) to develop their proposals.

Proposals should include and/or address to the extent possible the following:

Audience/Curricular Links/Programming

  • Proposal Statement/Cover Letter (including mention of audience, curricular links, and any ideas for supplementary programming such as gallery talks/lectures)
  • Artist(s) Resumé(s) and/or exhibition information from lending institution(s)
  • Illustrative samples of images/objects (digital format required)
  • How do you envision students interacting with the exhibit beyond the opening reception? What related programming (talks, screenings, workshops, creative projects) will be attached to the exhibit?
  • List other faculty members (both in and outside of your department) willing to include this exhibition in their curricula.

Material Concerns

  • List of potential materials (including quantity, media, size, and readiness to display/hang)
  • Owner(s) of materials and obligations regarding safety and security measures as well as replacement values
  • Exhibition dates in relation to the Academic Calendar and availability of exhibition space(s)

Budgetary Concerns

  • Estimated costs of loan, insurance, publicity, shipment, mounting supplies (including signage/labels and display/hanging materials), additional installation assistance, additional print materials (gallery handouts, catalogue, programs), opening reception, and related programming (including honoraria, travel, lodging, meals, and materials)
  • Individuals, departments, and/or organizations offering programmatic and/or financial support (if support is financial, a rough estimate of available funds should be provided)

Deadlines: Proposals for Stokes 102 will be reviewed on a revolving basis. Proposals received later will be reviewed on a revolving basis. For Cantor Fitzgerald, please be in contact with Matthew Callinan, Exhibitions Coordinator (mcallina@haverford.edu), as soon as possible.

Event/Residency Application Form PDF for Symposia, Talks or Readings (single or series), Performing Arts, Exhibitions, Film Screenings (single or series), Faculty Working Group, or Residency.

Dialogues on Art

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The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities strives to connect in an integrated way with the academic program and encourages interdisciplinary and faculty collaboration. Faculty are recruited to participate in the Center's "Dialogues on Art" series - through which participants – a small group of faculty and students from a wide variety of departments or majors - visit exhibitions, performances, or screenings of contemporary art in and around Philadelphia and then discuss the experience over dinner. The Center covers the travel, admission fees, and dinner.

The Center seeks to work in partnership with faculty and is open to faculty suggestions for programs, events, resources, and initiatives that deepen humanistic inquiry at Haverford.

For more information, or if you have an idea for a possible Dialogues trip, contact Associate Director James Weissinger at jweissin@haverford.edu.

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2010-11

  • On Sculpture - Organized by Laura Gilroy '11, a group of students and professors (Hannah Garner '12, Rachel Cholst '11, Tom Apicella '12, Ellen Freeman '11, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine arts and Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow John Muse, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier) traveled to the Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley, for its 50th anniversary. The group wandered from the paths through the woods to see the sculptures up close. The post-trip discussion at Ekta Indian restaurant in Bryn Mawr revolved around the unique way the sculptures at Storm King work with the elements and engage with their natural surroundings. Agreed-upon highlights included a mile-long winding stone wall by land artist Andy Goldsworthy, a cube by Menashe Kadishman that created the optical illusion of being suspended in midair, sheets of steel that sliced through the hillside by the famous sculptor Richard Serra, and a chair made out of welded-together JFK half dollar coins by an artist named Johnny Swing.
  • November 6, 2010 - On Street Art: Organized by Michael Rushmore '14, students were invited to join us for a trip to view Seiler's Taking From the Tip Jar solo show at the Vincent Michael Gallery in Philadelphia. Artist Jordan Seiler and gallery director Elizabeth Gault walked students through the show and ate a meal with them afterwards. Jordan Seiler is an artist at the forefront of street art and political action through art, which focuses on the takeover of billboards and other forms of advertising in public spaces. His artistic actions have shut down a company with an illegal business model and generally made the world a place with fewer advertisements.

2009-10

  • The Art of the Steal - Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.

2008-09

  • September 4th - the ICA's exhibits: Douglas Blau, R. Crumb's Underground, Katie Gilmore, Odili Donald Odita: Third Space

2007-08

  • September 7 – the Wooster Group's production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones" as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts & Philly Fringe Festival with Professor Rob Scarrow (Chemistry).
  • October 7 – the Stephen Sondheim musical "Assassins" in conjunction with the Musical Theater Student Seminar, participating in a special talkback discussion with the cast.
  • April 25 – "Mike's World," a retrospective of performance/video/installation artist Mike Smith at UPenn's Institute for Contemporary Art with Professors Owen Schuh and Rebecca Robertson (Fine Arts) and Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow John Muse.

2006-07

  • October 12 – "Saving Faces: Portraits of Facial Reconstructive Surgery" by Mark Gilbert at the Klein Gallery with Professor Carol Schilling (Writing Program).
  • November 3 – Philadelphia Mural Arts Tour with Pankhuri Agrawal '06, CPGC Haverford House intern with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
  • December 6 – "My Children! My Africa" at the Wilma Theater with Professors Laura McGrane (English; Africana & African Studies) and Craig Borowiak (Political Science).
  • February 21 – "Look Again: African American History is American History" at The Rosenbach Museum & Library with Professors Willie Williams (Fine Arts) and Israel Burshatin (Spanish/Comparative Literature/Gender & Sexuality Studies).
  • April 26 – Berthold Brecht's "The Life of Galileo" at the Wilma Theater with Professors Marianne Tettlebaum (German; Mellon Fellow 04-06 and Dialogues on Art founder) and Richard Freedman (Music; Humanities Center Director)

2005-06

  • November 4 – Professors Gena Zurowski (English) and Rob Scarrow (Chemistry); an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Rodney Graham, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
  • November 8 – Professors Jill Stauffer (Philosophy), Jim Ransom (English), and Maud McInerney (English); an exhibition of Eugène Atget's photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  • January 20 – Professors Alyssa Hartz (Comparative Literature), Sue Benston (English), and Kim Benston (English); an exhibit of paintings by Beauford Delaney, Philadelphia Museum of Art (organized by Emma Chubb, the Humanities Intern at PMA for Summer 2005).
  • February 10 – Professors Stephen Hock (English), Mark Scandera (Mathematics), Dorian Stuber (English), and Marianne Tettlebaum (Comparative Literature and Music); a screening of Michael Haneke's film "Caché".
  • March 31 – Professors Darin Hayton (History) and Jeff Tecosky-Feldman (Mathematics); Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds" exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia (organized by students Britta Volz and Katrina Schwartz).
  • April 14 – Professors Raji Mohan (English) and Kaye Edwards (Center for Peace and Global Citizenship); a tour of public mosaics and art by Isaiah Zagar on South Street, followed by dinner with the artist (organized by student Pankhuri Agrawal).

2004-05

  • November 4 – Professors Gena Zurowski (English) and Rob Scarrow (Chemistry); an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Rodney Graham, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
  • November 8 – Professors Jill Stauffer (Philosophy), Jim Ransom (English), and Maud McInerney (English); an exhibition of Eugène Atget's photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
  • January 20 – Professors Alyssa Hartz (Comparative Literature), Sue Benston (English), and Kim Benston (English); an exhibit of paintings by Beauford Delaney, Philadelphia Museum of Art (organized by Emma Chubb, the Humanities Intern at PMA for Summer 2005).
  • February 10 – Professors Stephen Hock (English), Mark Scandera (Mathematics), Dorian Stuber (English), and Marianne Tettlebaum (Comparative Literature and Music); a screening of Michael Haneke's film "Caché".
  • March 31 – Professors Darin Hayton (History) and Jeff Tecosky-Feldman (Mathematics); Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds" exhibit at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia (organized by students Britta Volz and Katrina Schwartz).
  • April 14 – Professors Raji Mohan (English) and Kaye Edwards (Center for Peace and Global Citizenship); a tour of public mosaics and art by Isaiah Zagar on South Street, followed by dinner with the artist (organized by student Pankhuri Agrawal).