Visual and Performing Arts Archives

Visual and Performing Arts

DiRado awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Stephen DiRado, senior lecturer in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has been been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is one of only 181 scholars, artists, and scientists chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in this 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada. DiRado, an acclaimed…
Students debut original works at Clark’s 2012 New Play Festival

The 2012 New Play Festival features nine student playwrights, three readings and six full productions staged at the Little Center through April 28. The biannual festival heralds the arrival of exciting, fresh talent on the college theater scene, nurtured and developed at Clark. Hear from theater program director Gino DiIorio and student playwrights in this…
Clarkies are changing the way we think about food

There was a time when food was something you ate but rarely pondered. You did not know, or care, where your dinner came from, or how it would interact with your body once it was consumed. That was then. Sure, many folks still eat with abandon, but many others, like the Clarkies profiled on these…
Backstage confidential

As it hits the 10-year mark, Clark’s International Gala remains a miracle of planning and execution. An insider delivers the low-down on how it’s done. It’s about 3 a.m. the morning of the show — earlier than I expected to be contemplating the prospect of sleep. Final dress rehearsal wrapped up around 2 a.m. Sound…
Gala concert gives voice to alumni singers, inspires music students

Four Clark alumni, all of them professional singers, took the stage in Razzo Hall on Jan. 27 to showcase their operatic talents and inspire current students who envision a career in music.
Powerful ‘Voice to Vision’ exhibit depicts tales of genocide survivors

Clark University will host David Feinberg’s “Voice to Vision,” an expansive mixed media exhibition that narrates the experiences of genocide survivors from around the world, in multiple sites on campus beginning Thursday, Feb. 16. A gallery talk with Holocaust survivor Fred Arman will mark the opening of this exhibition, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Schiltkamp…
Presidents lead Difficult Dialogues series on livelihood and career

Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella, Clark President David Angel, faculty and students gathered in Dana Commons Oct. 18 to grapple with the issue of how liberal arts colleges are preparing students for lives of work. The event, titled “Livelihood and Vocation,” was the third symposium in “Educating … for What?” — this semester’s Difficult Dialogues…
Clark art historian to deliver annual lecture at Smithsonian on Nov. 4

Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history in the Visual & Performing Arts Department will deliver the annual Eldredge Prize lecture, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and G Streets NW, in Washington, D.C. * Update: To watch a video of Wilson’s lecture, click here. * Wilson…
Clark announces endowed chairs

Clark University Provost Davis Baird has announced the appointment of the next holders of four endowed chairs. Arshad Kudrolli has been appointed to a three-year term as the new Jan and Larry Landry University Professor. Established in 1997, the Landry University Professorship is made possible by a generous gift from Larry Landry ’71, M.B.A. ’75, and…
Smithsonian awards Eldredge Prize to author, art historian Wilson

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson, Clark University associate professor of art history, for her book “The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934” (Yale University Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “new and excellent interpretation of…