The MFA Thesis show “Retratos de Espaldas,” or “Portraits from the Back,” is currently showing in the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery. The show is dominated by life- and larger-than-life size paintings of full-body portraits, all depicting people in the crowds of “el mercado,” or the market. The paintings document a physical and philosophical journey for the artist’s identity.
Read More“This is one of those plays that’s about real life,” said Chris Colt, the director of “August: Osage County,” which will be performed Feb. 8-11 in the Dibden Theater for the Arts. “There’s nothing absurd about it. It’s the dysfunction, and the characters are people who are funny. But it also mirrors the dysfunction we all have around us. So we laugh at recognizing life even though there is an extreme element because of the extreme dysfunction. Thank God most peoples’ families aren’t this bad.”
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Found-footage horror films, notorious for having low budgets and becoming extremely profitable box office hits, recently changed the horror industry. It stems from a girl-next-door atmosphere, a neighborly disposition that draws viewers into believing they intimately know the characters on screen.
Professor of Performing Arts Bethany Plissey hosted a showing of the documentary “The Singing Revolution” on Jan. 25 in Bentley Hall. The Creative Audience presentation featured a short lecture, followed by the documentary, which focuses on the period between 1987 and 1991, when the small nation of Estonia peaceably proclaimed its need for independence from the U.S.S.R. through non-violent protests and hundreds of thousands of Estonians singing their way to freedom. This film shows “a peaceful way of overcoming insurmountable odds,” said Plissey.
Read MoreTwo internationally acclaimed authors will visit Johnson State College in March and April as part of the Spring Author Series.