Visual and Performing Arts

  • Internationally acclaimed ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ director to speak at Clark

    Internationally acclaimed ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ director to speak at Clark

    Clark University will host “Film Making, Creativity, Migrant Biographies, Diasporic Disruption,” a conversation with internationally acclaimed film director Gurinder Chadha and Clark Sociology Professor Parminder Bhachu, on Monday, October 24, at 6 p.m. in Dana Commons, 950 Main St. The event is free and open to the public. Chandha will also be in attendance at a Sunday night screening…

  • Marionettes will add to magic of Stravinsky’s moving ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ at October concert

    Marionettes will add to magic of Stravinsky’s moving ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ at October concert

    Clark University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts will present a performance of “L’Histoire du Soldat” or “A Soldier’s Tale” by Igor Stravinsky, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, in Atwood Hall, Daniel’s Theater on Woodland Street. The concert is free and open to the public. “A Soldier’s Tale” is considered one of the most…

  • Clark alumna turns her lens on war-torn Yemen

    Clark alumna turns her lens on war-torn Yemen

    Thana Faroq ’13 took her first photograph — a picture of her family — using her father’s camera when she was just 10 years old. Back then, she and her family lived in a peaceful Yemen, one without war or bloodshed. Today, Faroq (pictured above), a Sanaa-based photographer, captures images of her war-torn city’s street life. Many of…

  • #madewithstephen: In lead up to ArtsWorcester award, students offer praise for DiRado

    #madewithstephen: In lead up to ArtsWorcester award, students offer praise for DiRado

    During a Friday ceremony, Clark University Visual and Performing Arts Professor of Practice Stephen DiRado will receive the 35th ArtsWorcester Award to honor his years of artistic and cultural contributions to the city — an award his current and former students believe has been years in the making. “I have no idea if I would even have a photography career…

  • Student explores sea-level rise, coastal resources in Hawaii

    Student explores sea-level rise, coastal resources in Hawaii

    Not every college student gets to enjoy a summer in Hawaii, but that’s where Isabel Miranda ’17 was over the past few months — although she didn’t spend her days relaxing on the beach or riding the waves. In May, Miranda was named a Marsh-Mosakowski NOAA Fellow, and soon found herself in the Aloha State,…

  • New undergraduate programs in Media, Culture and the Arts and in Africana Studies debuting this fall

    Students will be able to choose two new academic offerings — a major and a concentration (interdisciplinary minor)

  • Play by Clark senior rises to finals in New York City contest

    Play by Clark senior rises to finals in New York City contest

    Rachael Segal’s ‘Moon Juice’ a finalist at Manhattan Rep

  • Clark reframes an artistic partnership

    Clark reframes an artistic partnership

    For many, the Worcester Art Museum exists solely in the abstract as the impressive-looking building touted in chamber of commerce literature for its world-class treasures. Indeed, it is that. But for Clark University the museum, affectionately known as WAM, is something even more tangible — an active partner that gives students and faculty an opportunity to help…

  • Alumna helps uncover evidence of Holocaust escape tunnel in Lithuania

    Alumna helps uncover evidence of Holocaust escape tunnel in Lithuania

    A recent Clark University graduate is part of a research story that has made international headlines: archaeologists’ discovery of a tunnel dug by Jews in Lithuania trying to escape extermination during the Holocaust. After graduating with a dual degree in art history and ancient civilization this May, Rachel Polinsky ’16 traveled to Lithuania to join…

  • On the road with singer-songwriter Olivia Frances

    On the road with singer-songwriter Olivia Frances

    Clark student brings musical talent, drive to succeed to stages in Worcester, Nashville and beyond