Visual and Performing Arts Archives

Visual and Performing Arts

Clark student wins 1st Place at national voice competition

Talk about starting the summer on a high note! Clark University student Jacqueline Savageau recently won First Place at the 2015 National Voice Competition, hosted by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) in Greensboro, N.C., July 7. After submitting a video audition to the New England Regional Competition in February, Savageau placed 1st…
Clark University student selected for Fulbright Summer Institute, expands research about Hadrian’s Wall

Clark University undergraduate Hannah Kogut, of Ellington, CT, has been selected as a Fulbright Summer Institute program participant and will spend four weeks at Durham University in the United Kingdom, studying British history and Hadrian’s Wall. Kogut soon will enter her junior year at Clark University, where she double-majors in history and screen studies.…
Music Composer Matt Malsky is Associate Provost and Dean of the College as of June 1

Clark University has named Professor Matthew P. Malsky Associate Provost and Dean of the College. He will start his new post on June 1. Professor Malsky has been at Clark for 21 years, first as an adjunct instructor, then as a multi-year visiting assistant professor, and most recently as a full Professor and an…
Scaling the Wall

Ten years after graduating from Clark, Doug Martung ’05, who goes by the stage name Voli, is blazing his own path through the music industry. I spoke with him about where he’s been, where he’s going and how his time at Clark has impacted his music. Your music is a hybrid of rap, rock, hip-hop and…
David Strassler, M.B.A. ’11, honorary Trustee and Clark champion, receives ADL honor for lifetime achievement, leadership

David H. Strassler, M.B.A. ’11, honorary member and former chair of the Board of Trustees and longtime supporter of Clark University, recently was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in recognition of his dedicated commitment to the fight against ant-Semitism and for his decades of leadership in the service of ADL’s mission to combat hate.…
In Good Company

A troupe of Clarkies is turning the Boston theater scene on its head
‘Art After Clark’ exhibition showcases alumni creations

The Clark University Visual and Performing Arts Department celebrated the artistic visions of 17 studio art alumni at a Feb.12 reception for the third “Art After Clark” exhibition, now on display through April 2 at the Traina Center for the Arts’ Schiltkamp Gallery. Represented media and techniques range from handmade journals and fabric sculpture to printmaking, photography, painting,…
New Geller Jazz Concert Series set to open at Clark with legendary bassist Ron Carter, other greats

The Visual & Performing Arts Department at Clark University has received a generous gift from The Estate of Selma Geller, which establishes a biannual jazz concert series that will pair new and emerging artists with jazz legends and support audience development programming. The Geller family’s enthusiasm for jazz inspired their gift to Clark, which will support two…
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco to speak at Clark University Jan. 20

One year since he appeared at the podium during President Barack Obama’s inauguration, celebrated poet Richard Blanco will join the Clark University celebration of Martin Luther King Day, beginning at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street. In “Journey to the Podium,” Blanco will consider his remarkable journey as a gay Cuban-American…
Oscar winner brings star power to Clark

Melissa Leo participates in first Mobile Media Workshop