Arts & Culture News

• Black-Led Ballet Company to Collaborate with and Perform at Swarthmore

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Celebration Marks Renewed Lang Music Building

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Cooper Series Announces 2022-23 Slate of Events

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Law Scholar, Documentarian, Lieutenant Governor, and Ballet Dancer Named 2022 Honorary Degree Recipients

  Category: Liberal Arts
  

• Dramatic 24-Song Cycle Performance Among Eclectic Set of Senior Recitals

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Poet Daisy Fried ’89 Returns to Swarthmore to Read from Latest Book

  Category: Alumni Spotlight
  

• Associate in Performance Jeannine Osayande Honored for Contributions to Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Theater Department Reflects on a Year of Remote Performances

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Department Chair K. Elizabeth Stevens in the Swarthmore Bulletin

  Category: The Bulletin
  

• Dr. Jessica Nakamura '03 Publishes "Transgenerational Remembrance"

  Category: alumni news
  

• Cooper Series Begins Fall Slate with Two Virtual Events

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Department of Music and Dance Announces New Interactive Virtual Music Series

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Students Learn from, Perform with Celebrated Dance Company

  Category: Meaningful Opportunities
  

• Filmmaker Rodney Evans Talks New Doc on Visually Impaired Artists, Including Himself

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Cooper Events Series to Feature Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, Philadelphia Eagles Safety Malcolm Jenkins

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Swarthmore Well-Represented at BlackStar Film Festival

  Category: Beyond the Classroom
  

• ICYMI 2018-19

  Category: Changing the World

• Scenic Designer Matt Saunders Lauded for 'Show-Stealing' Work on Off-Broadway Play

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Patricia Park ’03 Reads From Her Upcoming Novel

  Category: Listen
  

• Dorcas Tang '19's Los Paisanos del Puerto: Living Narratives of the Chinese Diaspora Community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica

  Category: Listen
  

• Down to a Fine Art

  Category: Meaningful Opportunities
  

• Transforming and Encompassing Reality: Students Experience Russian Art Firsthand

  Category: Beyond the Classroom
  

• Filmmaker Tiyé Pulley ’19 to Document Cultural Influences Across Globe Through Watson Fellowship

  Category: Intellectual Exploration
  

• Dorcas Tang ’19 Explores Diaspora in Photography Exhibition

  Category: Student Spotlight
  

• Swarthmore Welcomes Choreographer Christopher K. Morgan to Campus for Solo Dance Performance

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Humanities and Arts Showcase Explores Careers Beyond Swarthmore

  Category: Meaningful Opportunities
  

• Five Swarthmore Professors Featured on ‘Academic Minute’ Podcast

  Category: Listen
  

• The Show Must Go On and On and On …

  Category: Performing Arts
  
• Lang Family Commitment, Challenge to Renovate Music Building Inspires Swarthmore College Board of Managers to Follow Their Lead

  Category: Vital Spaces

• Swarthmore Welcomes Benjamin Bagby and Sequentia for World Premiere Performance

  Category: Cooper Series
  

• Swarthmore Welcomes Director Lars Jan ’00 and Early Morning Opera

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Poet Natasha Trethewey to Visit Swarthmore as Phi Kappa Society Scholar

  Category: Visiting Scholar
  

• Community Members Get Up Close with Hamilton Star Renée Elise Goldsberry

  Category: Cooper Series Event
  

• College Community Members Take Stage for Fringe Festival

  Category: Philly Bound
  

• ICYMI: Top 20 Web Stories of the Year

  Category: Must Read
  

• Olivia Sabee Receives Fellowship from NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Students Shine at Tri-College Film Festival

  

• Celebrating Diverse Voices on the Printed Page

  

• A Little Lunch Music

  Category: Inclusive Community
  

• Gamelan Semara Santi Celebrates 20th Season

  Category: Listen to the performance
  

• Poet Julia Bouwsma ’02 Returns for Reading, Student Poetry Contest

  

• Premieres of Long-Lost Music, Iconic Film Tell New Story of Nazi-Occupied Poland

  

• Sociologist Eve Ewing Brings "Poetry in Context: An Encuentro" to Swarthmore

  

• Swarthmore Among Top Producers of Fulbright Scholars and Students

  

• Assistant Professor of Dance Olivia Sabee Receives Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant

  

• Student-Led Orchestra to Perform at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

  

• Film & Media Studies Professor Patricia White on Women's Filmmaking

  

• Listen: Deborah DeMott ’70 on "Disavowed Art"

  

• Watch: Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby '04 Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow

  

• Barney Frank to Visit Swarthmore for Performance, Dialogue

  

• An Evening with Chris Thile at Swarthmore College

  

• Alumni, Faculty Bring Two-Woman Play to Phila. Fringe Arts Festival

  

• Feature Film Produced by Matthew Thurm ’10 Finds National Audience

  Category: Alumni Spotlight
  

• Choreographer Jumatatu Poe '04, Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe '12 Honored by Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

  

• Tess Wei '17 Nominated as NCAA Woman of the Year

  

• Swarthmore Receives Pew Center Grant to Create, Exhibit Artists' Books

  

• Everything Old (English) Is New Again

  Category: Faculty research
  

• Theater Professor Allen Kuharski Receives Fulbright Grant

  

• Q&A with Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli

  

• Alessandra Occhiolini ’17 Wins College's Newton Book Collection Contest

  

• Listen: Musicologist Barbara Milewski on Music of Holocaust Survival in Poland's First Postwar Feature Film

  

• Listen: Music and Dance Alumni Trace "Chaotic" Career Trajectories

  

• Nell Bang-Jensen '11 Awarded Theater Leadership Grant

  

• Art Historian Tomoko Sakomura Named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

  

• Grammy-Winning Roomful of Teeth to Perform at Swarthmore College

  

• Listen: Yoel Roth '11 Talks "Swiping Left: Identity, Preference, and the Politics of Online Dating"

  

• Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby '04 Named a Woman of the Year

  

• Q & A with Art Historian Tomoko Sakomura

  

• Listen: Author Keiko Itoh '74 Discusses Her Novel, Set in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai

  

• Eight Faculty Projects Receive Digital Humanities Curricular Grants

  

• Listen: Cardiologist Nazanin Moghbeli '96 on Brush Strokes and Treating Folks

  

• Adam Haslett ‘92 and Joe McGinniss Jr. ‘94 Nominated for Prestigious Literary Award

  

• Student Conductors Take Spotlight at Chamber Orchestra First Editions

  Category: Spotlights
  

• Music Scholars Michael Marissen and Lauren Belfer '75 Collaborate on Bach Monograph, Novel

  

• Five Swarthmore Alumni Offered Fulbright Grants

  

• Listen: Bob Rehak on "Treknology: Reference Materials and Worldbuilding in Science Fiction Fandom"

  

• Spring Arts Celebration Kicks Off With a 'pARTy'

  

• Fashion Designer Joseph Altuzarra '05 on His Background, Inspiration, and Why Swarthmore

  

• Watch: Musician Stephanie Hsu '08 Founds Classical Music Program for Under-served Students

  

• Watch: Alex Shaw '00 Brings Consciência Negra to Campus

  

• Listen: Tasha Lewis '12 on Art Beyond Critical Study

  

• Music Professor James Freeman to Debut New Orchestra This Weekend

  

• Young Alums Shaping Philadelphia's Future

  

• Yule Ball Returns with Special Guest Amy Vachal '11

  

• Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby '04 Recognized as Leading Global Thinker

  

• Listen: Ceramic Artist Syd Carpenter on "Discovering a History: The Farm Portraits"

  

• Watch: Amy Vachal '11 Finishes on a High Note on The Voice