Arts and Culture (page 23)
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 Scripps College, 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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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 […]
Read MoreAlexa 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 Scripps College alumna and her beautiful designs are featured […]
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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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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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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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World Premiere Performance of Japanese Noh Theatre at Scripps
World premiere performance of Japanese Noh theatre at Claremont’s Scripps College introduces American audiences to oldest major theatre art still performed today On October 29, 2016, Scripps College in Claremont, […]
Read MoreVisiting 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 Scripps College. 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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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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