Dancers sighted all over campus

April 29th, 2010 | By Kathrine Chung

From Thursday to Tuesday, a group of dancers moved across campus, surprising, pleasing, and confusing both passers-by and intentional observers. The fluid execution of the dancers’ modern choreography, coupled with the unconventional venues–they performed pretty much anywhere on campus–challenged prevailing ideas about the nature of a dance performance. The Grinnell College Dance Troupe, a dance company...

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Harris screens two-dimensional Avatar

April 29th, 2010 | By Colin Carr

James Cameron’s Avatar disappoints us in all the ways we expect monolithic blockbusters to disappoint us—shallow characters, hackneyed dialogue, implausibly grandiose action stunts, etc. Its story takes place in the near future on a moon called Pandora, on which a band of creatures called the Na’vi live. The U.S. invades their land in order to...

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JCC plays home to Soviet Children

April 29th, 2010 | By Lawrence Sumulong

Although not typically regarded as a gallery space, the John Crystal Center last Wednesday unveiled a collection of sixteen lithographs produced by various members of the Soviet Artists Union during the early and mid 1970s. Located in the lower level of the JCC, the colorful exhibition entitled “Young Pioneers: Lithographs from Johnson-Horrigan Collection”...

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Faulconer Opens Up

April 29th, 2010 | By Mike Kleine

While people usually flock to Bob’s Underground for open mic performances, last Wednesday was different. Faulconer Gallery hosted its second open mic night of the semester, featuring performances from faculty, students, community members and even alumni. The event began with Rebecca Stuhr, Collection Development and Preservation Librarian, who reminded everyone of Poem in Your...

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Hybrid Media elucidates future artistic avenues

April 29th, 2010 | By Darwin Manning

If you enter the Faulconer Gallery, you will find yourself immersed in the future of art, an organic blend of traditional artistic techniquespaired with the limitless possibilities that technology can lend us. The show, now open from April 9, to June 6, is called Hybrid Media, and it showcases the work of Matthew...

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Hopi clowns disseminate justice

April 25th, 2010 | By Ali Sargent

Grinnell College has campus security, New York City has the NYPD, but the Hopi people of Northeast Arizona have a law-enforcement system that you would never dare to mess with—clowns. On Tuesday afternoon, around 30 college faculty, staff, students and community members gathered to hear Professor Louis A. Hieb ’61 give a talk entitled “The...

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Multi-season photography project opens in Smith

April 23rd, 2010 | By Tyler Banas

While it can be all to easy to look through the poverty in urban areas as near as Des Moines, artistic passion drove Lawrence Sumulong ’10, who also serves as the S&B photo editor, into the daily lives of the homeless. The doors to a new photography exhibit opened last Monday at Smith Gallery. The installation...

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Friends fosters art as open discourse

April 22nd, 2010 | By Christian Caminiti

Grinnell College’s newest art and literary magazine, & Friends, debuts this spring with the ambitious intention of establishing and publishing a shared creative discourse between students from all reaches of campus. The publication aims to unify Grinnell artists through its experimental format. Initially, students provide an artwork—be it a poem, a photograph, etc—which is...

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Slam Poetry 101

April 22nd, 2010 | By Chloe Moryl

Yesterday in the JRC 101 at 8 p.m., spoken word poet Idris Goodwin performed for a group of students, faculty and staff. Goodwin was brought to Grinnell by SPEAK, a campus group promoting spoken word poetry, as a part of National Poetry Month. Goodwin performed poems and songs from his most recent album,...

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Elephant Micah plays to packed, studious Bob’s

April 15th, 2010 | By Eliza Leas

During this tour, Elephant Micah has played everywhere from the office of an internet start-up to a barn on a commune. But rarely does he fit in as well as he did in Bob’s Underground cafe where his smart lyrics perfectly complemented a quiet but crowded concert. Elephant Micah’s Tuesday night performance came just after Mark...

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