As I entered a room with red walls, nets on the floor and faucets filled with oysters, I quickly realized that the Pomona College Museum of Art wasn’t hosting any average art exhibit. The museum’s most recent exhibition, “Intermodal” by Courtney Leonard, is not only intriguing and aesthetically pleasing to
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Creating without fear: ‘Art for Healing’ reduces stress, reinstills agency
CW: Mentions of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, stalking Maddy Gould PZ ’19 unfurled student art on a table that was made in the Empower Center’s event “Art for Healing,” a lunchtime activity designed to provide healing and support to survivors of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. Many are just
OPINION: The multi-dimensional facade of the “pop-up experience”
You may have seen the photos. Positively blissful young people frolic through fields of giant daisies, pose next to enormous gummy bears, and fling handfuls of colorful sprinkles into the air against the backdrop of glossy pink tiles made to emulate the “sprinkle pool” of some childhood dream. These scenes
CGU celebrates annual show on digital art, poetry, Scrabble
“The living aren’t equal and neither are the dead. Transformation is the bravest fantasy,” said Inez Tan as she read from her poem, “I Am Trying to Care about You as a Person but You Keep Turning Me into a Bear.” Last Friday evening, Oct. 12, Foothill Poetry Journal
Connecting chemistry and the arts: Gillian Holzer explores Margaret Fowler Garden’s wall painting
Gillian Holzer SC ’19 has a passion for art history. As an intern for Zebala & Partners this past summer, she was able to explore this passion further and combine it with another love: chemistry. “I took an upper division art history course my first semester and general chemistry, and
‘Mutuality in Dichotomy’: Come for more than the Kandinsky
The Pomona College Museum of Art’s “Mutuality in Dichotomy: Photography from the Permanent Collection,” which opened Sept. 4, is the fifth in a series of student-curated exhibits featured by the museum. Vivienne Yixuan Shi PO ’19 developed the exhibit last summer, and she focuses on the dichotomous relationship between aerial
Pomona Begins Construction on New Museum of Art
Last Thursday, Pomona College began construction on its new art museum. The museum will be located on College Avenue next to Pomona’s South Campus, across the street from the current art museum. The Renwick House, a historic building built in 1900, was moved across the street in order to clear the