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video still of an actor playing Frederick Douglass, walking a horse through a field
The Arts
April 19, 2019 | 11:57 am

Immersive installation brings Frederick Douglass to life

British filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien’s visionary 10-screen film installation is the second in a series of media art commissions at the Memorial Art Gallery devoted to the history and culture of the city of Rochester.

topics: events, Frederick Douglass, Memorial Art Gallery,
dancer in a studio.
The Arts
April 10, 2019 | 03:29 pm

Spring weekend of shows explores dance, collaboration

Spring Explorations and Experimental Dances, or “S.E.E.D.,” features original work from student choreographers and composers, alongside renowned choreographer David Dorfman and performances from Rochester faculty.

topics: Eastman School of Music, events, Institute for the Performing Arts, Program of Dance and Movement,
blueprints with a pencil illustrate how to make a poem.
The Arts
April 9, 2019 | 09:34 am

How do you make a poem?

Speakers of a language rely on its words to carry out even the most mundane acts of communication. But the same words are poets’ medium of creation. In his newest book, How Poems Get Made, James Longenbach asks how poets turn bare utterance into art.

topics: book authors, Department of English, featured-post-side, James Longenbach, School of Arts and Sciences,
Kaija Straumanis
The Arts
March 28, 2019 | 03:11 pm

Fairchild Award recognizes literature in translation

Kaija Straumanis ’12 (MA) has received the Lillian Fairchild Award—which recognizes artists for their commitment to the Rochester community—for her work bringing world literature to new audiences.

topics: awards, community, Department of English, Lillian Fairchild Award, Open Letter,
painting of Saint Hildegard, receiving a vision.
The Arts
March 28, 2019 | 03:02 pm

6 things you didn’t know about Saint Hildegard of Bingen

University musicologist and Hildegard biographer Honey Meconi explores the life of the 12th-century Benedictine nun who created her own language, wrote one of the first musical plays, and wrote books on health and healing.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, book authors, Eastman School of Music, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
dancer makes exaggerated motions in front of a class in a dance studio.
The Arts
March 28, 2019 | 01:18 pm

Motion captured at first-ever ToddX

Noshir Dalal ’03, an actor and motion-capture artist, presented a workshop on motion-capture techniques in film and video games as part of the workshops, panels, and talks that comprised the first ToddX events focusing on theater, dance, arts, and new media.

topics: events,
portrait of Marian Crotty
The Arts
March 22, 2019 | 12:44 pm

Author Marian Crotty receives 2018 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Marian Crotty is the 2019 recipient of the honor from the University’s Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies for her first book of short stories, What Counts as Love.

topics: awards, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
Jamie Bernstein
The Arts
March 15, 2019 | 01:30 pm

Keeping Leonard Bernstein alive for the current generation

Jamie Bernstein, writer, broadcaster, and narrator, will discuss her father’s legacy as part of a series of events celebrating “Leonard Bernstein and American Musical Theater.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Eastman Community Music School, Eastman School of Music, events, Humanities Center, Humanities Project, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,