Have you ever texted your ex? Yeah, been there. You probably shouldn’t. In this episode of 5Cs After Dark, Siena Giacoma PZ ’27 and Arianna Kaplan SC ’27 tackle the morality of sending a late-night “thinking of you” message, featuring Giacoma’s ex-boyfriend.
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Home Away From Home: ‘Idolos Muertos?’ and the legacy of Francisco Sánchez Flores
Persevering through time, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects further on her summer research on artist Francisco Sánchez Flores and his time in Claremont. Rollins describes the challenges she faced looking through archival material and the challenges presented in Sánchez Flores’ play, “Idolos Muertos?”
Looking for Los Angeles: The death and life of Muscle Beach
From Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu to Frank Zane, Los Angeles’ Muscle Beach became a magnet for bodybuilding hall-of-famers during its golden era in the 1970s.
Home Away From Home: The history of Padua Hills Theatre
Uncovering a long-lost legacy, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on her summer research on the artist Francisco Sánchez Flores and his time in Claremont in 1935.
The Daily Palette: The lasting effects of ‘Atomic Dragons’
Exploring the Cold War and its effects now, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition “Atomic Dragons” at the Pitzer Art Galleries. From her previous readings in her curation class, she was instantly tethered to Judtih Dancoff’s work. Judith Dancoff narrates her own experiences of her father working on the Manhattan Project with Oppenheimer. Rollins describes the letters between Dancoff’s father and Oppenheimer in the piece, “The Dancoff Factor,” where they are a “window into their relationship with each other and their work. It was work that slowly killed them, but quickly destroyed the lives of so many.”
The Daily Palette: Exploring identity in ‘Means to an End’
Exploring her conflicting identity of being the quiet girl with her passion for art, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition “Means to an End” at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College. She becomes captivated by an artist, Debra Broz, who reconfigures porcelain animals into uncanny hybrids that allows her to explore identity. Rollins connects moments of her elementary school speech classes to her experiences in college, where she has finally come to the realization that, like porcelain, patience is needed to grow.
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.
The Feline Stare: Understanding Complications in Color
Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition, “Complications in Color,” at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art. Sadness strikes as Rollins admires the work of Rachel Lachowicz, a Californian abstract artist who uses makeup to address femininity, as she reflects back on her art portfolio that followed a similar theme, to a specific art piece as a kid.
Books ‘n Love: A matter of right person, wrong time
Romance mixed with time travel — who wouldn’t be intrigued? Columnist Kassia Zabetakis PZ ’28 explains and reviews the evolving plot of Ashley Poston’s novel “The Seven Year Slip.”
The Feline Stare: Analyzing Carmen Argote: gajes del oficio
A fabric snag that felt like the end of the world, Meiya Rollins PO ’’ ’29 reflects on Carmen Argote’s exhibition: gajes del oficio at Pitzer College. She analyzes Argote’s personal and historical references constructed into jumpsuits that run across two different galleries, creating a narrative of the trade of sewing that runs within families.