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  • Students examine Egyptian artifacts as part of class.
    Beyond the collections, annual memberships, and traveling exhibits, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes at the world’s museums, and a new vlog minor in museum studies seeks to dive deep into the operation, ethics, and history of museums around the globe.
    January 31, 2017
  • An installation in the Sessile exhibition at the Clifford Gallery at vlog
    A new show has arrived at the Clifford Gallery. It’s called Sessile, and it is curated by Josh Minkus. The exhibition includes works by five sculptors: Giulia Cenci (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Rand Hardy (New York, N.Y.), Eva Löfdahl (Stockholm, Sweden), K.r.m. Mooney (San Francisco, Calif.) and Nick Raffel (Chicago, Ill.). Despite their differences in style and approach, these artists […]
    December 8, 2016
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays onstage in the vlog Memorial Chapel
    Democracy — typically applied to politics — has found a place in music. The Grammy Award–winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, famed for its lack of a conductor and uniquely democratic approach to music making, visited vlog this semester for a performance and discussion about the applications of a collaborative organizational structure. The New York City–based orchestra was […]
    December 1, 2016
  • Work from Picker Gallery exhibition depicting painted bookshelf with title "All the books I should have read (but I've been doing all the other things instead)
    Estonian multimedia artist Marko Mäetamm tells stories, both personal and global, in I Want to Tell You Something, an exhibition on display at the Picker Art Gallery through January 8.
    November 30, 2016
  • “Who knew that so many new things could be made from junk?” said Fiona Adjei Boateng ’19, a theater student who was making handbags out of denim pants during an upcycling workshop. Reet Aus, an Estonian fashion designer and environmental pioneer, hosted the workshop in Clifford Gallery. She is known for upcycling, which is using […]
    November 14, 2016
  • Reet Aus in the documentary Out of Fashion
    Over the next few days, environmentally conscious fashion trailblazer Reet Aus is visiting campus. She’ll lead a handful of special events to highlight how she’s been working to make fashion more sustainable. Her doctoral thesis focused on efforts to incorporate upcycling into mass production, and since 2012 she has been working with Beximco, a major apparel […]
    October 28, 2016
  • Dani Solomon, performing in One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars.
    Real science fused with science fiction when Dani Solomon ’13 performed One Way Red, a solo show that followed a young woman’s one-way journey to Mars. The 90-minute performance on October 6 unfolded as Sam, played by Solomon, stumbled upon an online video about the Mars One project — an actual nonprofit that intends to […]
    October 26, 2016