Arts & Entertainment

Staying True to His Strings

April 28, 2011 Zan Strumfeld 0

Several years ago, 65-year-old Rob Turner decided he would rather make $100 a day as a substitute math teacher than $6 an hour as a hall monitor. His daughter won a scholarship to travel to Washington, D.C. But Turner had trouble finding a job that would pay the airfare without a bachelor’s degree under his belt. After roaming the halls to make ends meet, he is now back in the classroom to pursue a math degree, in addition to something more – mastery of performance and composition in cello. “I figured, ‘Why don’t I take music […]

Stage Set for New and Old Playwrights

April 14, 2011 Rachel Freeman 0

Students and local playwrights joined forces this past weekend on April 8, 9 and 10 when they put on the New Play Festival in Parker Theater. The festival was comprised of 11 performances, eight 10 minute plays and three one acts, written by students and locals and completely student run. Members of the Department of Theatre Arts decided to hold the festival because they wanted to introduce the idea of new plays and their importance to theater, said Assistant Theatre Arts professor Nancy Saklad. Saklad was the chair of the committee working on the festival […]

Little Monsters and Free Hugs

April 14, 2011 Pamela Vivanco 0

For his class Ceramic Objects as Multiples, second-year transfer BFA student Daniel Sangiacomo and his classmates were assigned to create 100 small ceramic objects and install them in a space. Sangiacomo chose to install the art of hugging. After deciding to make 100 “hug monsters,” representational ceramic figures of people with their arms out, Sangiacomo distributed 33 of the personified “monsters” in the lobby of the Sojourner Truth Library and 67 in the Atrium. Inspired by the “small word experiment,” Sangiacomo […]