Visual and Performing Arts
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Geography, art history, and a passion for Bogotá
Maria Luisa Escobar Pardo ’17 seeks to contribute to a resurgent Colombia
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Hollywood actor delivers reel advice to student filmmakers
Undergraduates in Advanced Digital Production course learn from industry professionals
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Professor Kristina Wilson receives excellence award from Association of Art Museum Curators
Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University, received a prestigious Award for Excellence in recognition of her groundbreaking new scholarship as co-curator of “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period,” a unique and popular exhibition mounted at the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in 2016. Read more: Clark reframes an artistic partnership. Wilson (pictured above, center) and…
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Student’s graphic novel gets to the art of Van Gogh’s Paris sojourn
Taking a cue from Post-Impressionist Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, Grant Henry ’17 headed to Paris last summer to envelop himself in the world of art and explore and document places like Montmartre, the red-light district that harbored artists of Europe’s fertile Belle Époque period (1871-1914). Nine months later, he emerged with a well-researched graphic novel, “The Adventures…
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Alumni filmmakers reignite screens with re-release of ‘Burning Annie’
In 2007, the film “Burning Annie,” a dark comedy about a college student who believes all of life’s answers are found in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” received a limited theatrical and DVD release. Now, after more than a decade, including years of post-production difficulties, the film is getting the re-release it deserves. “Burning Annie” is…
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Mitchell Gamache is far from camera shy
By his own description, Mitchell Gamache ’17 has always been a “visual kind of guy.” So, it felt natural for him to major in screen studies when he enrolled at Clark University. “Growing up, I made short films with my friends and studied graphic design in high school,” he says. “When I got to college,…
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Phat Tran’s Cannes-do spirit is leading to a film career
Whether he’s walking the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival or just across campus to meet with an adviser in the Alumni and Student Engagement Center, Phat Tran ’19 knows he’s striding toward a successful future. The screen studies and management major credits a combination of factors for his confidence – a love of film, prior experience, and…
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Clark alum joined archaeologists in Holocaust tunnel discovery; NOVA to feature story
A Clark University alumna had a front-row seat for an international news story that PBS’ NOVA is featuring on April 19: archaeologists’ discovery last summer of a Holocaust escape tunnel built by Jews near Vilna, Lithuania. Rachel Polinsky ’16 graduated from Clark with a dual degree in art history and ancient civilization last May. She then headed to Lithuania to work alongside Richard…
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Student filmmaker to intern at Ken Burns studio
Leah Bodin '18 credits LEEP project experience with helping land Florentine Films internship
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Professor Aylward receives Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition
John Aylward, associate professor of music composition and theory at the Clark University Department of Visual and Performing Arts, received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is one of 173 current fellows representing scholars, artists, and scientists from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, selected from among more than 3,000 applicants. Professor Aylward is a composer, conductor and performer of…