Pomona College Art Department’s “Look Without Fear” exhibition was on view February 6th, featuring work by 17 artists from the 5Cs that highlight the art of noticing. TSL’s Multimedia team captured behind-the-scenes footage of the exhibition.
Tag: Art
The Daily Palette: Tangles of Resistance in She Opens the Door
Starting with a poem that channels her feelings of the current state of the world, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art. She admires how Culverson, an LA-based artist, creates a cascading waterfall of fabrics that resists the binaries of society in her piece Float.
Ten years of ‘yes, you can’: How the Hive reshaped creativity across the 5Cs
As of this fall, the Hive has been a staple of the 5Cs community for ten years. In 2015, a grant transformed what had been the Seeley G. Mudd Science Library into a more flexible, lively space. A decade later, the Hive remains an experiment in creativity and collaboration.
“TforX: A Chronoscape” brings student-made slit-screen photography to Harvey Mudd Gallery
This fall, the Sprague Gallery at Harvey Mudd College presented “TforX: A Chronoscape,” the first solo exhibition of the artist duo Nolan Windham CM ‘25 and Jasper Eliot, a London-based artist and writer. The exhibition featured slit-scan photography, an experimental technique that required Windham and Eliot to build a custom software system to scan footage from different angles, slicing it into strips of time and space.
Humanities studio presents Nina Eidsheim on the sounds, art and philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith
On Oct. 2, the Humanities Studio hosted Nina Sun Eidsheim to speak on her latest book and research regarding sound and the work of musician and composer Wadada Leo Smith. The talk was titled, “Nina Sun Eidsheim on the Sounds, Art, & Philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith.”
OPINION: Replace reels with real life
Reels, TikTok, even the eldritch beast of YouTube shorts encroach have taken an aggressive hold on us, and Xavier Callan PO ‘28 is one of the brave souls who have gone cold turkey. Callan argues that we should follow his brave steps forward to take back control over how we spend our time.
Spring on the Mounds: Swap, shop, reflect
On April 12, students enjoyed live music, art, printmaking and clothing sales at the Pitzer Mounds. The Pitzer Gallery Art Fellows showcased their pop-up art exhibition, uniquely displayed inside two U-Haul trucks.
The Claremont Art Equity Initiative: Bridging the gap between art history and economics
Saturday, March 29, marked the Claremont Art Equity Initiative’s (CAEI) first major event as a new and emerging club at the 5Cs. More than 75 students and Claremont community members gathered on the rooftop of the Kravis Center for a silent auction of student artwork.
Paint nights and soirées: Saturday evenings get more creative with the 5C Artists’ Coalition
5C Artists’ Coalition, an increasingly active and popular club, hosts regular paint nights and art socials. The organization aims to create and support a supportive community centered around creativity.
Poet Quan Barry on visualizing history through art
Poet, novelist and playwright Quan Barry spoke at the Benton Museum on March 25, reciting several poems and excerpts from her novels. Barry’s work uses the backdrop of history to contemplate what it means to be a human.