By Bryan Cebulski Music connects you to others, and it connects you to yourself. An appreciation for composed sounds is an internal as well as an external meditation. Lying on your bed while listening to Joni Mitchell or grooving to Michael Jackson on the dance floor—no other form of expression is quite so viscerally…
Artist Spotlight: Joey Belonger
Many artists have a single form of expression. The prose writer has a political agenda to attend to, the oil painter has gender tropes to subvert, etc. This is all quite admirable, yet it is especially impressive when an artist cannot be pinned down by any one impulse or art form. Senior Joey Belonger is…
Artist Spotlight: Carly Gaeth
Aside from perhaps free falling from 100,000 feet, there are few greater rushes of adrenaline than taking center stage in a performance. Aside from perhaps a room full of really affectionate puppies, there are few greater surges of emotion than singing a heartfelt song in front of an audience. Senior Carly Gaeth has managed to…
Artist Spotlight: Lucy Bouman
On one hand, the photographer is an auteur. She has artistic control over the content of the photographs she takes—the lighting, the position of the camera, the subject matter, etc. Yet, on the other hand, the photographer is a chronicler of subjects and events outside her own shell. Instead of examining the photo as an…
Artist Spotlight: Tierra Masupha
By Bryan Cebulski Inspire, connect, express. Such is the motto of Lawrence University’s Slam Poetry Club (SPC), a recently established organization aimed at providing an emotional outlet and safe space for students. Sophomore Tierra Masupha co-founded SPC last year. Her hard work in getting the club running will be demonstrated on Friday, May 8, at…
Artist Spotlight: Celeste Silling
By Bryan Cebulski A girl with an ice cream cone on her forehead makes a funny face while vaguely phallic-looking scoops of ice cream float in the backdrop. Colorful paper flowers pop off of a bedroom wall. 70 sheets of paper contain sketches of individual faces that collectively form a large image of eyes. A…
Artist Spotlight: Nic Bizub
Two brothers sit at a piano. The older is taking a music theory class at his college, while the younger is still in elementary school. They fiddle around with the keys. They practice intervals together. They write notes down. It was never his intention for this to turn into a lifelong passion, but that is…
Artist Spotlight: Dylan Richardson
The bassoon is an unwieldy instrument. It is one of the largest of the woodwind instruments, standing awkwardly tall within a family of more petite instruments. The fingering is wild and complicated, often demanding the use of more phalanges than the average human possesses. The left thumb by itself has nine keys to press down.…
Artist Spotlight: Jazmin Astwood
A school community like Lawrence is interesting in that it demands a lot of its members. If not for the academic demands alone, students also tend to dedicate swaths of their time to numerous extracurriculars as well. In living such a hectic lifestyle, it is important to not lose sight of things. Introspection is important.…
Artist Spotlight: Peter Raffel
One of the greatest joys an artist can experience is world-building. What starts as a few simple ideas in one’s head can bloom into an enormous creative effort. Take, for instance, the wizarding world of “Harry Potter” that J.K. Rowling weaved through prose, or the wondrous unknown corners of space that Gene Roddenberry conceived in…