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(01/21/15 2:23am)
How do you get somebody to look at a single letter as a picture? How do you get them to see that it has the same value as, perhaps, any image on a wall? Alvin Eisenman ’43, a world-famous graphic designer who died in September 2013, saw each letter on a page as an art form — he believed that a letter should be as “pleasing” and “dynamic” as an independent mark, exhibit curator, instructor at the College’s Letterpress Studio and former Eisenman student Won Chung ’73 said.
(01/13/15 10:19pm)
By the age of 15, Freeman was already making the transition from singing for fun to performing for an audience to being an artist. She started her own YouTube channel as an avenue to share her music. She also began to focus more effort on her original work, by cataloguing and recording her compositions.
(08/11/14 10:53pm)
Whereas his freshman year, Feyaad Allie ’16 juggled punching in and filling out paper time sheets for his three different campus jobs, now all he has to do to get paid is click his mouse.
(08/07/14 6:40pm)
Taking its name from the weapon that David uses to face the giant Goliath, “SlingShot” — a new documentary directed by Paul Lazarus ’76 — follows the story of inventor Dean Kamen, who invented the Slingshot water purifier to tackle the lack of clean drinking water across the globe.
(07/31/14 9:39pm)
Sitting around a table with Tony-award winning writer Lemon Andersen, students in the theater department’s “Drama in Performance” class discussed his script, suggesting a scene they wanted added or 10 pages they thought should be deleted. The meeting was part of the New York Theater Workshop’s 23rd summer residency at Dartmouth, which brings emerging directors, playwrights and actors as artists-in-residence to Dartmouth. For three weeks at Dartmouth, the artists-in-residence retreat into their creative spaces and focus entirely on their new works.
(07/25/14 12:50am)
At Dartmouth and other colleges nationwide, where corporate recruiting sends us into a frenzy and professors emphasize class debate, the loud, more often than not, prevail over the reserved. When confidence and assertiveness border on arrogance and obtuseness, the voices of the Waldos and Eeyores among us tend to go unnoticed.
(07/25/14 12:45am)
Despite the addition of a new December session that will launch after fall term, the summer Tuck Business Bridge program saw an 8 percent increase in the number of applicants this summer, program director Nicole Faherty said. The program, historically offered over two four-week summer sessions at the Tuck School of Business, is designed to help liberal arts, science and engineering majors without academic business backgrounds learn the mindset and skillset required for the field.
(07/17/14 9:42pm)
Assyrian reliefs and Schubert, American landscape and Mozart — as unlikely as the combinations are, a Hood Museum event will link art with classical music on Friday.
(07/10/14 10:30pm)
Michael Odokara-Okigbo ’12 was in the process of writing a song when he received a call informing him that he would play a role in the upcoming film “Pitch Perfect 2” (2015). He had just stepped into the patio, he said, when he picked up his phone.
(06/19/14 9:45pm)
The recent $10 million donation supporting a Museum Learning Center at the Hood Museum will triple classroom space and expand the gallery area, reinvigorating the museum’s commitment to teaching, Hood director Michael Taylor said. The donation is the largest single gift to the museum since its 1985 opening and brings the Hood to $28 million of its $50 million overall goal for the renovation, Taylor said.
(05/15/14 10:53pm)
“I don’t think you want to hear what I have to say, but I’m going to tell you anyways. I’m going to tell you a story. And it’s my story, and it’s yours. But it doesn’t belong to either one of us.”
(04/29/14 9:22pm)
Rainbow fishnet stockings, white button-down shirts, pink skin-tight dresses and black bras were among the outfits modeled at Tuesday’s Transform fashion show, which took place last night as part of Pride Week. The gender-bending fashion event drew a large crowd to Collis Common Ground.
(04/27/14 7:02pm)
Though they often tuck themselves away inside the Hopkins Center’s basement recital hall and practice spaces, about 10 to 20 students major in music each year. Majors range from students who arrived at Dartmouth with plans to study a different subject to those who considered attending a conservatory after high school.
(03/31/14 8:12pm)
A glance through the glass walls of the Hopkins Center’s Strauss Gallery reveals vibrant and intriguing photographs hanging on its whitewashed walls — the works of senior studio art lecturer and renowned photographer Virginia Beahan.
(03/23/14 9:56pm)
Phoebe Bodurtha ’15 brought the 2014 Dartmouth Idol audience to a roar when she sang “Defying Gravity,” from the Broadway hit “Wicked,” at the show’s finale. Nabbing a first-place finish was no feat of luck. Bodurtha has sung since middle school and had performed in Idol twice before.
(03/05/14 9:39pm)
This article is the second in a two-part series about female students’ impact on the arts at the College leading up to and just after coeducation.
(02/24/14 10:45pm)
For the brave souls that make the trek down West Wheelock Street and across the Ledyard Bridge, Davidson Ceramics Studio is worth the trip. Located right off the Connecticut River in Norwich, the studio allows students and faculty to throw, fire and glaze their own pots, whether they have experience working on a potter’s wheel or are getting their hands dirty for the first time.
(02/18/14 10:46pm)
When “Spring Awakening” was first written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind, the play was banned throughout Germany for its explicit content. After seeing the musical version that landed on Broadway over a century later, theater professor Jamie Horton was so impressed by its bold story that he pledged to eventually direct the show. His wish became a reality this year, as Horton and his student cast prepare to perform the musical this Friday.
(02/12/14 9:08pm)
A full moon drew 400 people to the Hanover Country Club golf course on Friday Feb. 13, 2005. The first Howl at the Moon dinner, organized by Dartmouth’s Outdoor Rentals Program and the Hanover Recreation Department, was not a gathering of werewolves, but an evening of food and music for local residents and students.
(02/06/14 9:06pm)
Perilously wrapped around Baker-Berry library, a colossal dragon spews fire through the swirling winds of a blizzard. This year’s “Carnival of Thrones” poster reflects the epic fantasy theme.