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  • The ninth installment of the film series focused on contemporary social justice concerns and included a live performance for the first time.

  • This visual studies course explores the specific mid-20th-century movement of “conceptual art,” as well as its progenitors and its progeny. Students study the founding manifestos, canonical works, and critical appraisals, as well as develop tightly structured studio practica to embody the former research.

  • The Dining Center’s high-traffic dish room conveyor belt gained community-sourced embellishment as student groups helped create a mural to promote compost awareness.

  • The gallery’s latest exhibit, Unwilling, reimagines passive sadness as a powerful refusal. At its opening, visitors could watch the conclusion of an all-day, site-specific dance performance, hear a talk by the curators, and taste a custom beer brewed specifically for the exhibit.

  • Independent theater major Rory Kennison ’18 wrote a two-act play for his senior thesis, and, with the help of seven student actors, he recently shared his work in a poignant staged reading.

  • Representative photographs and related material from the College’s extensive, 5000-print-deep photography collection takes viewers on a tour of color photography’s history and demonstrates how it has grown to become the norm when it was once the exception.

  • Black Atlas, the work of Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, opened in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery with an artist talk and reception.

  • Four Haverford violin students had the opportunity to perform for and learn from David Kim when he gave them personal, one-on-one instrument instruction.

  • Four Haverford violin students had the opportunity to perform for and learn from David Kim when he gave them personal, one-on-one instrument instruction.

  • A new on-campus multimedia exhibition by Dita Cavdarbasha ’19, letter to my serbian neighbor, presents a personal engagement with the effects of the Kosovo War.

  • The 12 Bi-Co students in Naomi Safran-Hon’s “Sculpture: Materials and Techniques” class were asked to construct site-specific installations across campus—from the library to the Nature Trail to the KINSC Rotunda—for their final projects this fall.

  • A new program out of the VCAM building facilitates classroom connections to Philadelphia and local artists.

  • The two-decade-old tradition, which invites community members to enjoy film, music, and speakers encompassing all things Yiddish every semester, welcomed queer, Yiddish, anarchist band Koyt Far Dayn Fardakhtn, featuring bassist Rose Kaplan-Bomberg ’10, to campus.

  • This course, which is cross-listed in East Asian languages and cultures, environmental studies, and visual studies, examines the relationship between environment and the arts in China and Japan—particularly how artists engage with and respond to nature through varied modes of artistic production and exhibition.

  • Two new art exhibitions opened over Family & Friends Weekend: Futureproof in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, and Keeping in Touch in Marshall Fine Arts Center’s Atrium Gallery.

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