About Us: News

The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery will be open 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 11/25, and be closed Thursday, 11/26 through Sunday, 11/29 for the Thanksgiving Break.

Janet Yoon '10 and Professor Carol Solomon are co-curating Mapping Identity, an exhibit set to open in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery in Spring 2010. Here, Janet documents her work in preparing for the show.

Professor of English Theresa Tensuan and filmmaker and bookstore buyer Mary DiLullo are shooting a documentary about the innovative writing workshops led by bestselling author and artist Lynda Barry. The two filmed Barry as she led her “Writing the Unthinkable” workshop as part of the symposium “Drawing the Line: Comics and the Art of Social Transformation”.

Artists Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse explore the visual culture of America’s contemporary wars through three video works that will be exhibited in Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, October 23-December 11, 2009.

Mark Chehi '78 and his wife Johanna, parents of Stephen '11, invite fine arts students to spend summers pursuing their craft in the picturesque Newfoundland village.

The film explores the struggle of the people of the Narmada Valley against the big dams that threaten to submerge their lands and displace them from their homes, traditions and cultures.

Wed. November 11th 2009, 8:00 p.m. - Meditation Room, Woodside Cottage: All members of the Haverford Community are invited to join the Poetry Reading Group and the HHC for a lively evening of poetry, fiction, and far-flung works from across the literary canon! Hosted by Thomas Devaney, Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing.

Oct. 20 & 21, 2009: "Politics, Africa, and Performance" brings together writers, scholars, performers, and activists in a two-day discussion focusing on the ways in which the visual and performing arts provide crucial links between lived experience and political power.

Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 4:30 pm, Sharpless Auditorium, KINSC. Moderated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Presented by the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center in collaboration with Spector Projects.

Tuesday, Sept. 15th, Stokes 102, 10 PM: Learn more about student opportunities at the Hurford Humanities Center, including the Student Arts Fund, The E. Clyde Lutton '66 Memorial Fund For The Performing Arts, Student Seminars, Reading Groups and Research Stipends.

The connection between music and quantum mechanics was the subject of a three-day event that brought a trio of renowned artists working at the crossroads of music and technology to Haverford.

Student Seminars are interdisciplinary not-for-credit classes designed and run by students. This year topics range from how film changes the way we perceive music to how Disney's retellings claim ownership of original stories while inflecting complex issues suffusing the contemporary American cultural Imaginary. Application Deadline: Monday, April 27th.