INSPIRATION NIGHT 2017: ARTS AND ACTIVISM THURSDAY, APRIL 13 7-9 PM Get socially engaged in art! To feature food, student performances, and interactive discussions with student activist groups! Schedule of events: 7 – 7:15pm: Welcome and Screening of Inspiration Night: Art and Activism Video 7:15 – 8pm: Inspiration Stations: You are encouraged to visit the exhibition Read more about Inspiration Night 2017: Arts and Activism[…]
I dipped my brush into my water jar and then swirled it in a patch of vibrant green. I swished it across my canvas, applying a quick base coat. And then I looked up, snapped out of my trance, and remembered where I was. From where I was sitting, I could see a quaint Read more about Claude Monet’s World: Seen and Emulated, by Urvashi Uberoy ’20[…]
The songs we are performing vary in genre and messages, but most importantly they engender a sense of empowerment that is really important to us. Arts and activism are mutually dependent. Art can be used as the most powerful and expressive means of propagating activist ideas. Without it, activism would lose a crucial part Read more about Inspiration Night Spotlight: Evie Elson ’19 – Tigressions[…]
For Inspiration Night, Old NasSoul will be performing four songs that have everything to do with change, from change in how one thinks about their current situation in life represented by our song “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”, to internal change in the recent song “Same Drugs” by Chance the Rapper, to Read more about Inspiration Night Spotlight: Chandler Cleveland ’18 – Old NasSoul[…]
We’ll be singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow (from the Wizard of Oz), Pure Imagination (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, and Alice in Wonderland. We chose these pieces because they’re all about working towards or thinking about better places or times. As is said in Pure Imagination, “Anything you want Read more about Inspiration Night Spotlight: Faridah Laffan ’18 – Katzenjammers[…]
1) What will you be performing at Inspiration Night, and why is it meaningful to you/your group? I will be performing a very “unique” love poem, and it’s meaningful to me because I think everyone deserves something that can be their day’s motivation or some offering of reassuring words of why they are important. Read more about Inspiration Night Spotlight: Sara Howell ’20 – Songline[…]
Perhaps my favorite moment in the Princeton University Art Museum unraveled in front of “The Death of Socrates,” a piece by Jacques-Louis David and his studio. A calling card of the European Art (17th-18th Centuries) gallery, the intentionally unfinished chef-d’œuvre, at least according to scholar Thomas Crow, served as a teaching tool. In a Read more about Art and Accessibility: Mariah McVey ’20 Shares a PUAM Experience[…]
FAILED LOVE 2017 FEBRUARY 16 Heartbreak can be a great muse. Whether you are happily in love, boycotting it forever, or somewhere in-between, the Museum’s Student Advisory Board invites you to celebrate the power of a broken heart to inspire art! Live student performances, lots of dessert from Chez Alice, and great art to discover at Read more about Failed Love 2017[…]
Growing up in London for the first eighteen years of my life, there was no dearth of museums and galleries to visit. In fact, the constant presence of art, though enjoyable, could also be overwhelming. Some of my favorite museum experiences in the city have been at exhibits that explore the intersection between fashion Read more about The Storied Past – Mohammad Adnan ’19 on the Katas Raj Temple Complex[…]
As a second semester senior in high school, my friends and I had no shortage of trips to DC. After school we’d take short, 30 minute metro rides to the city, and arrive at different stops each week: Dupont Circle, Gallery Place, Smithsonian, and occasionally, U-Street. Our adventures were varied, one day we’d check out Read more about Wave After Wave – Cathleen Kong ’20[…]