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Force of Nature is a historic new Wellin exhibit
October 24, 2014

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art unveiled its newest show, Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature, on October 11. While Alyson Shotz is primarily a sculptor, she filled the gallery with a wide range of visual media, including large-scale sculptures, ceramics, prints, vinyl decals, a wall drawing, and an animation. The Wellin Museum proved largely successful in its first attempt to dedicate the entire gallery space to a single artist. More ...

Catherine Wright’s performance piece ‘Tough Love’ is a primal tour-de-force
October 24, 2014

Last Sunday night at 7:30, The Emerson Literary Society brought Catherine Alice Wright and Co. to the Blood Fitness and Dance Center for a lei’d back evening of performance art. More ...

Jazz All-Stars return to the Hill for annual concert
October 24, 2014

Anticipation was the air. The musicians tuned their instruments while the audience took their seats. I looked down at the band from the balcony, eagerly awaiting their set as I listened to the final words of introduction. The return of the Jazz All-Stars was one of the highlights of Fallcoming for many members of the Hamilton community. More ...

Visiting artist Holly Hughes provides a voice for historically voiceless
October 9, 2014

To kick off the Art Department’s 2014-2015 “Visiting Artist Series”  American lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes delivered powerful, hilarious and thought-provoking monologues from her various works.  Hughes, who grew up in Michigan, discussed her beginnings as a low-key feminist painter until 1978, when she volunteered at the Wow Café, a small NYC performance venue. More ...

Coming soon to Hamilton’s F.I.L.M.: Gasland II with director Josh Fox
October 9, 2014

This Sunday, Oct. 12, F.I.L.M. in partnership with Environmental Studies, will bring director Josh Fox to KJ’s Bradford Auditorium to discuss his documentary Gasland II.  The film is a sequel to the Academy Award-nominated Gasland, which helped promote a national discussion on hydraulic fracking.  Fracking is the practice of using liquid at high pressure to divide rocks and release natural gas.  It has been seen as a controversial method of obtaining gas due to alleged side effects such as water contamination and air pollution.  The practice is prohibited in New York. More ...

Lark String Quartet pairs new and classical elements in a lively way
October 9, 2014

Last Saturday evening, music by Aaron Copland, Franz Joseph Haydn, Aaron Jay Kernis and Felix Mendelssohn filled Wellin Hall as the internationally acclaimed Lark String Quartet performed for a sizeable audience of Hamilton students, professors and local residents. More ...

Senegal St. Joseph Gospel Choir takes audience on musical journey to West Africa
October 3, 2014

This past Friday, September 26, Hamilton showcased a dazzling group of singers, drummers and dancers at Wellin Hall.  Coming directly from Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, the westernmost country of Africa, these musicians come from a culture very different from most students at Hamilton.  Yet their gorgeous interpretations of gospel spirituals, traditional African songs and Catholic Masses united everyone in the audience to embrace the universal joy of passionate music. More ...

Graves brings folk to Acoustic Coffeehouse
October 3, 2014

Shakey Graves, born Alejandro Rose-Garcia, is simply, as his Twitter bio states, “A Texas Gentleman.” It was his big, easy grin, his nonchalant but pointed observations (“Yea, I see the beer caps and condom wrappers outside, I know what y’all are up to!”) and whistle-lisp country croonin’ that, after two or three songs, got the audience dancing on either side of the stage. More ...

Faculty concert wows audience
September 26, 2014

Music filled Wellin Hall on Sunday, September 22, Hamilton instrumental lecturers Allan Kolsky and Sar-Shalom Strong performed a recital together, on clarinet and piano respectively. They performed pieces by Brahms, Reich and Nielsen before being joined by percussionist Michael Bull for another piece, Nielsen’s “Clarinet Concerto.” More ...

Dave Deacon provides lesson in banjo history to Hamilton students
September 26, 2014

Last Friday, banjo player and historian Dave Deacon visited the Hamilton College campus with three of his finest instruments, and a story to tell.  The banjo, as Deacon noted, has a rather fraught history.  It is bound inextricably to constructs of race and class. More ...

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