How is it that humanity is still divided? After all, humans have endured hardship, seen others fall, achieved the unthinkable, and developed over two thousand years. One would assume that …
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Passion Project
Protest to Commercialism
Grace Wakeling ’21 Several artists in recent years have taken up the act of protesting commercialism and especially the commercialization of art. Of course, this is a topic that hits …
Pyotr Pavlensky: The Extreme
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 …
How To Overcome Pain (2)
Aaron Almeida ‘2021 Cutting It hurts. It’s easy and it’s common. Cutting is extremely effective in numbing emotional tumult because it’s visually torturous and it gets your adrenaline going. This adrenaline …