Senior Ben Johnson as Sir Roger Marwood, senior Ming Montgomery as Charlot and sophomore Oscar Brautigam as Lovewell. Photo by Taylor Blackson. The recent LU theatre department production of “She Ventures and He Wins,” directed by the James G. and Ethel M. Barber Professor of Theatre and Drama and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Kathy…
(Un)documents Performance—Jesus I. Valles
On Monday, Apr. 29, students and faculty packed the Mead Witter room in Lawrence University’s Warch Campus Center in eager anticipation of the performance to come. Jesus I. Valles traveled from Austin, Texas, to perform and workshop their piece “(Un)documents.” In the spoken word work mixed with theatrical movement and occasional recorded music, Valles took…
Stretching Nature: a senior composition recital
On Saturday, Apr. 13, at 5 p.m., David Fisher’s senior recital commenced with “Petrified, Splintered,” a string quartet played masterfully by senior violinists Katie Li Weers and Joanie Shalit, junior violist Julien Riviere and senior cellist Joshua Tan. Written in the fall of 2017, this earlier work in Fisher’s Lawrence career was based off the…
A “Meme’s Eye View”: Alarm Will Sound presents a philosophical conversation
On the evening of Friday, Apr. 5, a crowd gathered in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel to watch the 20-member new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound give their Lawrence Artist Series concert. Out of those 20 musicians, three are Lawrence Conservatory professors: Associate Professors of Music Erin Lesser and Nora Lewis on flute and oboe, respectively,…
Wriston Spring 2019 Opening Reception and Artist Talk
“It’s about human intention.” Mary Griep, professor Emerita of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College described her Anastylosis Project as such when asked to do so in one sentence at her artist talk. The series of large-scale mixed media drawings of 12th-century sacred spaces has taken the artist all over the world in…