Grace Wakeling ’21 Arguably the most extreme and aggressive activist artist is Pyotr Pavlensky. He is a Russian contemporary artist who often takes his performances a bit too far. In …
A Desensitized Era
Grace Wakeling ’21 With society drastically shifting to a technologically dependent environment, art has followed suit. Many people have been desensitized to political messages since there is rarely something to …
Artists for Feminism
Grace Wakeling ’21 The Guerrilla Girls, who are feminist activist group of anonymous artists, protest the ideas of any mainstream exclusion of any gender and race by revealing that oftentimes …
What Music Means to Me: A Personal Reflection
Hannah Van Essen ’21 I think that there are moments in our lives that we will always look back on with a smile, whether out of fond remembrance or patient …
A Limerick for Stingy Museums
Eva-Grace Petrie ’21 I’m at a museum alone, And I’d like to take some art home. The guard looked at me, And oh could I see, None of this beauty …
Community Art
Eva-Grace Petrie ’21 Why is it so important to me that art be accessible? Why should art come “off the wall?” I believe beauty is a fundamental piece of the …
Everything Feels the Same
Laudan Payne ’21 Scrolling aimlessly on my tiktok for you page, the fragmented audios tend to blur together into one hazy monotonous sound. Each video just feels the same. Wish I …
Nameplate Chains: Name So Cold, It’s in 14k Gold
Laudan Payne ’21 For my 18th birthday my best friend gifted me a little gold necklace with my name written on it in Farsi. I remember tearing up and being …
An Ode to AP Art History
Laudan Payne ’21 While sitting in AP Lang, my friend off-handedly mentioned to me that if we did not teach history, everything that happened in the past would simply be forgotten. Nobody …
Your Mind Was Not Meant to Fight Your Feelings
Daniela Lanning ’21 You feel yourself spinning in the absence of gravity. The tumultuous waves beat harder against the ocean floor. The emotions once bottled up in a dainty glass …