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Arts and Culture (page 23)


November 11, 2016

Elizabeth Payne LaBau ’03 Featured in Washington Post

Elizabeth Payne LaBau ’03, a dessert blogger, is featured in a Washington Post article about entrepreneurs whose online businesses are considered influencers through the power of social media and are […]

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Professor Ken Gonzales-Day Among Prominent Artists in Vanity Fair Photograph

Ken Gonzales-Day, professor of art at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ, was selected to be among 72 artists featured by Vanity Fair in the magazine’s photographic re-enactment of a celebrated collection of artists from 1968. Vanity Fair assembled prominent artists representing art and architecture for its December issue.

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November 10, 2016

Scripps and Pomona Dance present “In The Works…,” a Concert of Student Danceworks

“In The Works…” is the annual fall concert by students of the Scripps and Pomona Colleges dance programs.  The concert will take place Thursday, Friday, Saturday, December 1, 2, and […]

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November 3, 2016

Alexa Allen ’98 is Noted Designer, Artist, and Craftswoman

Alexa Allen ’98 is a craftswoman who creates eco-friendly furniture for children, designer handbags, and high-end metal art for collectors. The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ alumna and her beautiful designs are featured […]

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October 31, 2016

Spotlight on Faculty: Tessie Prakas, Assistant Professor of English

Tessie Prakas’s research focuses on early modern poetry and poetics, and especially on devotional lyric. Her current book project, Poetic Priesthood: Reformed Ministry and Radical Verse in the Seventeenth Century, argues that early modern poetry often served to provide models for religious devotion that were distinct from, and sometimes antithetical to, the established church. Her teaching focuses largely on Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century poetry, and on the relationship between music and literature.

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October 28, 2016

Spotlight on Students: Isabella Ramos ’17

Though students might know her for the matcha green tea Rice Krispies treats she often made as an employee at the Motley Coffeehouse, lately, Scripps senior Isabella Ramos has been up to a lot more than baking. These days, you won’t find her behind the counter at the Motley, but rather on a couch, finalizing plans for the weeklong Noh Theater Festival.

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October 25, 2016

Noh Festival Brings Japanese Theater to Scripps

Five years ago, Scripps Associate Professor of Music Anne Harley met Koji Nakano, a professor of music composition at Burapha University in Thailand. Now, they have come together in celebration […]

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October 20, 2016

World Premiere Performance of Japanese Noh Theatre at Scripps

World premiere performance of Japanese Noh theatre at Claremont’s °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ introduces American audiences to oldest major theatre art still performed today On October 29, 2016, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ in Claremont, […]

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Visiting Faculty: Koji Nakano: Award-Winning Composer Visits Scripps for the Noh Theater Festival

This October, award-winning composer and educator Koji Nakano will be a visiting faculty member at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼×ÊÁÏ. Recipient of the Erma Taylor O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Nakano will present lectures and workshops during his two-week stay as well as attend the premiere of his latest work, Imagined Sceneries, composed for Scripps and Pomona faculty and students. Imagined Sceneries was co-commissioned as part of the Japanese Noh theater festival by Associate Professor of Music Anne Harley and Isabella Ramos ’17.

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October 14, 2016

Scripps Alumna Ellie McElvain Featured in L.A. Weekly

Freelance comedy writer and stand-up comic Ellie McElvain ’14, featured in L.A. Weekly, is co-producer at a weekly comedy club where well-known L.A. comics come to test their new material. […]

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