Call for entries - The Not Male Show

Call for entries - The Not Male Show

Malcolm Ryder of the 185v76 artists collaborative will complete and publish a key piece of the preparatory work for artists who submit to the Not Male Show, an exhibition that uses the expressiveness of visual art to convey experiences distinguishing myriad self-identifications contrary to the conventional gender stereotype of "Male".

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History-making dancer Chun Wai Chan to Star in the Upcoming Short Film NEVER FADE AWAY, written and directed by Donna Weng Friedman '80

History-making dancer Chun Wai Chan to Star in the Upcoming Short Film NEVER FADE AWAY, written and directed by Donna Weng Friedman '80

Chun Wai Chan, the first principal dancer of Chinese descent in New York City Ballet’s 74-year history, will be featured in the upcoming short film, Never Fade Away, written and produced by pianist Donna Weng Friedman.

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Machines In Between Audio Series

Machines In Between Audio Series

Hosts John Modern '93 and Libby Modern '95 are joined by an eclectic and world-renowned cast of scholars, musicians, filmmakers, and artists on a wild ride through a fun-house of samples, science-fiction, and searing social critique, spinning around the question that has become increasingly difficult to ask—because we are always answering it—what do we love when we love our machines?

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Book Print Collective Member Project and Emergency Grants

Book Print Collective Member Project and Emergency Grants

The Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective (aka Book/Print Collective) is fundraising for the second iteration of our member project grants and to introduce emergency grants. This fundraiser will allow us to continue supporting the research, artwork, curation, and scholarship of our community.

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Danielle Ranucci's Story "My Name is Marya" Published in J Journal

Danielle Ranucci's Story "My Name is Marya" Published in J Journal

Danielle Ranucci is thrilled to say that her story "My Name is Marya" has just been published in J Journal's Fall 2022 issue!

J Journal is a nationally-recognized literary magazine that publishes fiction and poetry about justice. "My Name is Marya" seeks to shed light on the suffering and humanity of orphans in post-Soviet Kazakhstan.

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Silver medals for Quiet Poems and Four Moods, music by Kim Sherman, Donna Weng Friedman '80, pianist, at the 2022 Global Music Awards

Silver medals for Quiet Poems and Four Moods, music by Kim Sherman, Donna Weng Friedman '80, pianist, at the 2022 Global Music Awards

Thrilled that composer Kim Sherman's Quiet Poems and Four Moods albums won two Silver Medals at this years Global Music Awards for her glorious music! I am truly grateful and honored to be the featured pianist on both of these award-winning albums!!

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Bardo and the Art of Living: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid '93

Bardo and the Art of Living: A Conversation with Novelist Mohsin Hamid '93

In the latest in my new Tricycle magazine series, "Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life," I talk with Mohsin Hamid '93 about endings and beginnings. "The impulse to deny when change comes is natural," Hamid says. "It isn't wrong in the sense that the change can be quite overwhelming, but it's an impulse that's worth interrogating because I'm not sure it serves us particularly well."

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Wingless and Wet Podcast Launch

Wingless and Wet Podcast Launch

Are you bored of the philistines crowding the water cooler at your corporate workplace? Are you nostalgic for the sweet sound of embittered academics tittering about their non-problems? Well, look no further, because William Keiser '19 and the mononymous Shakthi have bottled their Enneagram Four slumber party at the source to bring you Wingless and Wet, an absurdist comedy podcast. Tune in weekly on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for your weekly dose of intelligent inanity. And, please, leave us a scathing review - we'll dissect it on the pod

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New Interview Series on Bardo and the Art of Living

New Interview Series on Bardo and the Art of Living

Ann Tashi Slater '84 is launching a series with Tricycle magazine called “Between-States: Conversations About Bardo and Life.” The interviews will explore how Tibetan bardo wisdom relates to our everyday existence, illuminating new ways of seeing and living. In the first conversation, Ann talks with author Maud Newton about how uncovering the connection between our past and present can help us find lasting happiness. ANCESTOR TROUBLE: A RECKONING AND A RECONCILIATION, Newton's investigation of America’s fascination with genealogy and her obsession with her own family history, has been named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and Esquire. (https://tricycle.org/article/maud-newton/)

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185v76 openings in October and November

185v76 openings in October and November

The 185v76 artists collaborative, soon to be known as PAX, followed up the summer release of its unique 3D online retrospective Visual Arts Program 1976 Faculty Show with its 2022 Fall project exploring the Pop Up concept in the offline world – opening a retail site (Fantasia) in London; a café-to-gallery site conversion (BOX) in New York; a library conversion (Kasper’s Temescal) in Oakland CA; as well as an additional multi-media exhibition in Paris; and a new online gallery generated from Macungie PA.

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