Arts Stories

Theater professor David Gürçay-Morris ’96 reshapes staging and design course that influenced his career.

Vickie Vértiz ’98 was awarded a PEN America Literary Award-Los Angeles for her poetry collection Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut.

Art professor Mari Rodríguez Binnie partners with MASS MoCA to offer residencies to Puetro Rican artists.

Student group Axxea String Quartet revels in performing new music and working with living composers.

A new museum collection helps professor Michelle Apostos illustrate shift in thinking about art from the African continent.

Two of the oldest objects in WCMA's collection are in conversation with full-size recreations by artist Michael Rakowitz.

Art professor C. Ondine Chavoya’s groundbreaking scholarship is the basis for a WCMA exhibition on queer Chicanx creative networks.

Art history professor Carol Ockman’s teaching on representation and the body is informed by her own performance in “Paramodernities.“