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DREAMS and the HUMAN FORM
Studio Art majors Austin Gifford ’11 and Anna Sharpe ’11 premiered their senior Independent Study exhibitions at Wooster’s Ebert Art Center last Sunday. Gifford showcased his ceramic sculptures while Sharpe displayed her paintings.
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Jazz Ensemble performs excellent tribute to Pastorius
Despite the icy weather in February delaying their performance for three months, The College of Wooster Jazz Ensemble and Italian professional† electric bass guiatrist Maurizio Rolli put forth an excellent show in tribute to legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius last Friday in McGaw Chapel.
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THE SCENE – DON’T SLAM POETRY MAN
I used to have a narrow view of poets and poetry in high school. I imagined poets wearing black clothes, smoking cigarettes, playing the bongos and making wild sounds while reading their work. Oh, and don’t forget the snapping fingers, since you don’t clap for poets. And more often than not, I couldn’t understand what…
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The Art of Independent Study
by Margaret Donnelly, Editor in Chief The senior studio art majors’ Independent Study exhibitions opened last week in the MacKenzie Gallery at the Ebert Art Center with the works of Will Santino ’11 and Nick Ouellette ’11, whose exhibitions explored Biblical concepts of creation myths, language and the Tower of Babel. Santino showed drawings from…
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Zurko and Milligan astonish at the faculty art shows
Kicking off The College of Wooster’s 2011 art show season, professors Bridget Milligan and Walter Zurko debuted and spoke about their respective projects, “Fireside Tales” and “ÖA Matter of Time,” which they each made during their most recent sabbatical from the College. Milligan worked with photography and digital art techniques, while Zurko made sculptures.
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Surprisingly trippy “Rango” takes on the classic Western
There are very few animated films that star chameleons. There are even fewer that mix Western movie staples with a dash of Gonzo wit. “Rango,” the first animated film from Industrial Light and Magic, is that film. Perhaps the movie’s allusions to Hunter S. Thompson aren’t so surprising when you hear that Johnny Depp is…
