Slam Gets Sexy

September 15, 2011 Katherine Speller 0

Things were getting hot ‘n heavy at Grimaldi’s this Monday, Sept. 12. New Paltz’s finest poets stormed the stage of the small Italian restaurant on 119 Main St. to deliver their most sensual syntax for the second Rock Hawk Poetry Slam christened “The Erotic Rock Hawk Poetry Slam.” The school’s burlesque troop, Alpha Psi Ecdysia, kicked off the night with a study in body […]

Artistic Wishes Granted

September 15, 2011 Katherine Speller 0

Three faculty members of the School of Fine & Performing Arts have received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Adjunct Professor Barb Smith, Professor Jamie Bennett and Associate Professor Emily Puthoff secured $7,000 each from the foundation. This year 105 NYFA Fellows and 16 finalists were […]