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Junior Art Show 2008
April 29, 2008 at 5:13 pmWalking by Boliou? Take a few minutes and check out this year's Junior Art Show. The exhibit, featuring the work of junior Studio Art majors, opened Friday, April 18th and will stay up through May 4.
OCS Photo Contest Winners Named
May 8, 2007 at 1:26 pmThursday, the winners of the annual Off-Campus Studies photo contest were announced. See the winning photos and read some of the stories behind them.
Gender Stitchery: Carleton Knits
April 5, 2007 at 3:27 pmWhen I walked into “Gender Stitchery: Artists Sew/Knit Art,” Carleton’s new art gallery exhibit, I was expecting something a bit more conventional. After all, sewing and knitting are practices that have long been more closely tied with traditionalism than with experimentation. But the exhibits on display are avant-garde, even bizarre. There is an 11-foot-long knitted jumpsuit, made to fit an impossibly tall human being, dangling from the ceiling like a limp windsock. In another work, a print of two Victorian ladies walking has been embroidered over to replace their faces with tribal masks. Then there is the quilt-like patchwork of two squirrels with the head of boys shooting each other with orange fuzz.
Looking Through A New Lens
February 2, 2007 at 9:12 amToday The Lens, Carleton’s student magazine of politics and culture will release its Winter 2007 issue, entitled “Behind Closed Doors." The issue marks the fourth installment of this student publication, which debuted last academic year.
Alien
January 30, 2007 at 10:39 amAlien
By Rose Kantor“Exotic Species Alert,”
reads a sign by the boathouse,
“this lake infested with milfoil.”But here I once saw,
clinging to a tree top,
an iguana.A crowd ringed beneath it
but none could coax the foreigner down.
If it shrieked at reaching hands, I don’t remember,
but we, in the crowd chattered on,
pointing rudely.
It was mid-summer, the tree was simple
and young,
the reptile huddled alone and far
from anything it belonged to.A childhood fear, then,
to become the iguana.
This poem originally appeared in Manuscript, Carleton's literary magazine. Reprinted with permission from Manuscript and the author.
Lost Birds
January 30, 2007 at 10:35 amlost birds
by Lisseth Gavilanon the way to the ocean
the salty breeze punched them.lost, a slight deviation,
had them homeless for the seasonpity, perhaps there is no way
of saving birds from oceans.
This poem originally appeared in Manuscript, Carleton's literary magazine. Reprinted with permission from Manuscript and the author.
Roadkill
January 30, 2007 at 10:22 amRoadkill
By Lydia BreskinThere was a
Deer
A bodily shell, curled
Into a conch spiral
Its hooves
Curled inward
Kneeling
As if it had been
Tipped over, nudged
Gently, perhaps
By a windSome sort of
Volatile, metal creature
Had visited its corpse, however.
Because its blood
Was showing
In an embarrassed
Ejaculation
Across the road
This poem was originally printed in Manuscript, Carleton's literary magazine. Reprinted with permission from Manuscript and the author.
The Murals at Myers
October 12, 2006 at 2:19 pm"Murals happen." That is the best explanation Peter Wilton '10 can give for the pictures that keep cropping up on Myers's walls. Myers is unique among Carleton residence halls in that its walls are lined with tiles that make a perfect surface for writing with dry-erase markers.
Art and Space
October 10, 2006 at 5:27 pmRecently seen on the Bald Spot: This art installation by Signe Swenson '07, who created it for an Advanced Sculpture course.
"Professor Stephen Mohring assigned the task of finding a space that doesn't exist but make it exist without touching it or describing it," Swenson said. "I started thinking about personal space, and how it really only exists when it is being violated."
Brick Art in Burton
September 19, 2006 at 4:10 pmTo welcome students to their new home in "The Complex", the Burton, Severance and Davis resident assistants hosted a dinner and brick painting event on Sunday.
As the Severance Tea Room was converted into a music-filled brick-art studio, residents used paint and glitter to brush, drip, and drizzle designs onto dozens of bricks. Common themes included polka dots, stripes, Van Gogh-esque scenery and llamas. Yes, llamas.
Land of the Giants
June 5, 2006 at 9:52 amWander onto the Bald Spot this week and you'll feel like Alice in Wonderland after she unwisely sipped from that bottle labeled "Drink Me." Overnight, as if by magic, a gargantuan table and chairs appeared on campus, complete with a giant checkboard on top.
Well, not exactly magic. There was sweat, carpentry, insurance and logistics involved, according to Andy Grotting '06, who hatched the plan and carried it out with the help of collaborators Jane Larson '06 and Jack Rousseau '06. Unlike some campus pranks (last year's pool of goldfish comes to mind), the giant furniture was approved in advance by campus officials who helped keep the scheme hush-hush.
Some onlookers wondered out loud whether the Goliath furnishings were a senior comps project or part of the senior art show. Not so, according to Grotting. "I just always wanted to make something gigantic appear on campus overnight," he said.
The table and chairs will remain on the Bald Spot until Thursday, June 8.
Is That Art In Your Pocket?
May 30, 2006 at 8:54 pmThe 2006 Senior Art Show Is That Art In Your Pocket? is currently on display in the Art Gallery. This year's collection includes an intriguing mix of media and styles.
