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Experimental Dance Board Winter Showing
1 February 2015Images from the Experimental Dance Board’s showing from Winter Term 2015.
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Bradley named Fulbright Scholar
28 January 2015Teaching and research appointment for 2015-16 to Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
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Art & Design Collective N55 Examines Ownership of the Arb
23 January 2015Upon returning to campus for winter term, many visitors to the Weitz Center for Creativity’s Perlman Teaching Museum showed signs of confusion when they first walked into the Braucher Gallery. Instead of the standard exhibit of photographs or drawings, they encountered a group of students and two artists in matching black outfits, ardently working at a huge table occupying nearly half of the space.
It is, in fact, not an exhibit but a studio art class called “Critical Studies in Public Space with N55 in action.” For the first five weeks of the term, eighteen Carleton students will be working with Danish art and design collective N55 to come up with a proposal for a hypothetical building in the Cowling Arboretum, commonly referred to as “the Arb”.
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Paul Hager, Instructor in Cinema and Media Studies, has been awarded an Established Artist grant from the Southwestern Minnesota Arts Council. The $4,865 fund will be used to write Cannon…
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Flory Gives an Invited Lecture at Macalester College
18 November 2014Andrew Flory, Assistant Professor of Music, presented an invited lecture at Macalester College called “Motown International.” The presentation was linked to “first-year” courses called “Cover Songs” and “Music and Freedom.”
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Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art, is having his work featured in “History Pages,” an exhibition at the The Gordon Parks Gallery of Metropolitan State University in St.…
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Howard Honored with SAGE Award for Dance
18 October 2014Judith Howard, Associate Professor of Dance and Chair of the Theater and Dance, was honored with a SAGE Award for Dance. She competed against three other nominees for the the…
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The American Composers Forum has announced the recipients of this year’s McKnight Composition Fellowship, funded by the McKnight Foundation. Among the four fellows named, chosen from a pool of 63 applicants, is Alex Freeman, Carleton College assistant professor of music. The award, which includes $25,000 in unrestricted funds, is meant to acknowledge excellence in the field of music composition.
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Flory Weighs In on Best Documentary Nominee, “20 Feet From Stardom”
27 February 2014With the 86th Academy Awards just around the corner (Sunday, March 2), Musicology Now recently published an essay by associate professor of music Andrew Flory about Best Documentary nominee, “20 Feet From Stardom.” An audience favorite around the globe, the film, directed by veteran filmmaker Morgan Neville, tells the “untold story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.” Flory’s essay, “20 Feet From Stardom: Entertainment or History?,” offers an insightful and balanced view of the film, questioning the fine line between history and entertainment in modern day depictions of popular music history.
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Chinese Music Ensemble Wins 4 Awards at 2014 Huain Cup International Chinese Instrument Competition
10 February 2014Four members of Carleton’s esteemed Chinese Music Ensemble were recently honored at the 2014 Huain Cup International Chinese Instrument Competition at the Le Petit Trianon Theatre in San Jose, Calif. A panel comprised of elite musicians and music scholars from the People’s Republic of China awarded a Gold Medal to Yawen Chen ’15 (China) on the Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute); a Silver Medal to Vicky Wu ’17 (China) on the Guzheng (Chinese zither); and Bronze Medals to Xiaodi Wang ’16 (China) on the Erhu (Chinese fiddle) and Ken Wang ’15 (Canada) on the Sanxian (Chinese banjo).
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