Campus Canvas 4/24/2013
In this piece, for a Sculpture 1 assignment about scale, I made oversized Russian nesting dolls or matryoshka. The changing scale of the nesting dolls that stack inside each other…
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Thespian Reddy-Best powered by coffee and determination
Siobhan Reddy-Best ’13 just might be one of the busiest students at Vassar. “I don’t sleep. I wish that was a joke,” she said with a laugh. Reddy-Best, a Victorian…
Bolotin bares soul in self-penned one-woman production
Would you ever stand before a live audience and share some of your most intimate stories about masturbation, identity and sex? Probably not, but that is exactly what Ruthie Bolotin…
Weldon ’05 to perform songs on queer experience, romance
Numerous acclaimed contemporary musicians got their start at Vassar: Victoria Legrand ‘03, members of The Bravery ‘99,members of Genghis Tron ’05 and ‘06, and Julia Weldon ‘05. Weldon, a prolific…
BioShock Infinite delivers riveting narrative
BioShock Infinite is a video game with a legacy to live up to. The original BioShock, released in 2007, was immediately crowned a modern classic by critics, primarily on the…
Alumnus Mundy positions art over business at FLLAC
Director of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center James Mundy ’74 loves art. And with his extensive museum knowledge and passion for artwork, he is seen by many students as…
Campus Canvas 4/18
I made this painting in response to an assignment for Laura Newman’s Painting I class, which I am taking this Spring. She told us simply: “Make a big head!” She…
Williamstown an unexpected art haven
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Land of wheat fields, chickens, and investment-bankers-to-be. On a visit to answer the question, “Could we go to grad school in the middle of nowhere for two years?”…
Special Collections to exhibit historic Bible
Celebrated calligrapher Donald Jackson will come to Vassar on April 20 as the 2013 Curtis Lecture speaker for his work as the artistic director of “The St. John’s Bible.” The…
Globe trekker Milton explores the definition of an artist
Quinn Milton ’14, a Studio Art major who focuses mainly on drawing and painting, has, as she put it, been “blessed with opportunities.” Only a junior in college, she has…