Campus Canvas Sept. 10
Lena Stevens, Class of 2021 Black Grief Take time to feel every passing. Tangle yourself in empty sheets and weep into pillows that wreak of jojoba and love lost. Feel…
Arts
Riot! Riot! Riot! On archive fashion
The most recent thread of mainstream “archive fashion” started three or four years ago when popular fashion digested and moved onto its next 20-year cycle. We saw a re-appraisal of…
BIPOC directors rethink suffrage history via avant-garde film
In the midst of a global pandemic, daily life requires some imagination. Reimagining Black Feminist Past and Futures, an upcoming film festival developed by a Poughkeepsie artist group and five…
Social Media graphics, more than playful platforms for artists, incite long-lasting awareness of injustice
Large, abstract, paint-smeared canvases. Aching arms holding up cardboard signs with bold type, ink melting under the hot, sticky sun. Street art, spray paint, cracked statues on sidewalks. Protest art. …
Campus Canvas Sept. 3
I seek complexity in the mundane. I am interested in the mass-produced everyday objects that look no more than one of a billion identicals and I believe they are more…
We’re all in need of a little healing. Grouplove’s new album is a good place to start
The last few months have been tumultuous, but the sea of new music released in and around this time has provided many a reprieve from the chaos. I’ve recently had…
Examining Artists in the Class of ’24
As an incoming Vassar freshman who has been spending a lot more time drawing and painting, I have been eager to meet other students in my year with a passion…
Five songs for when you want to cry in the club
The notorious meme compels us all to ask ourselves: Why am I crying in the club right now? Maybe it’s a Saturday night, you’re fist pumping to whatever song you…
Between a rock and a hard place: how I found solace in painting
I step out the back door of my house wearing flip-flops and a tank top and clutching a tiny beach bag with a shovel inside. I tip-toe outside, headed for…
Sex jokes and rock ‘n’ roll: looking back at Erotic Cakes by Guthrie Govan
If I were to tell you to listen to the album Erotic Cakes by guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan, you might reply, “What the hell is that?” or “I don’t know…