Author: Sara Cronk ’22
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Available to Stream February 27-28
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The Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Theatre and Dance will present its production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in a virtual format on Saturday, February 27 at 7 p.m. and Sunday February 28 at 3 p.m. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead focuses on two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Framed by scenes straight from…
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From These Hands: Fiber Art and Poetry by Gwen Westerman Opens at Hillstrom Museum of Art
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Running from Feb. 15 through April 18, the exhibit highlights the quilt art that celebrates the artist’s Dakota ancestors.
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Betsy Byers Receives Inaugural “Project Space” Grant
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The $10,000 award will support a solo multimedia exhibition inspired by glacier melt and climate change.
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Healing Waters: Lydia Francis ‘11 Talks Christmas in Christ Chapel and Teaching as an Alum
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The alumna has created scenic designs for Christmas in Christ Chapel for five years, and will return to the classroom this spring.
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Adaptability: Theatre and Dance Students Hold Online Performances
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The Gustavus Department of Theatre and Dance will host a series of virtual performances this weekend.
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Bringing the Dinosaurs Back to Life: Alumni at the Intersection of Art and Science
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Most of us don’t get to say we work with dinosaurs for a living. For Gustavus art alum Tim Quady ’91, however, dinosaurs are just part of everyday life. Twenty-three years ago, he started Blue Rhino Studio, a custom design and artistic fabrication studio that does work for natural history museums around the world. While…
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Whodunit? Gustavus Theatre Puts on Murder Mystery Radio Show
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While the “Golden Age” of radio may be long past, the Department of Theatre & Dance at Gustavus Adolphus College is bringing radio performance back in its fall show, The Murder Mystery Hour: A Double Bill of Radio Thrillers. This audio-based production streams online November 13 and 15. “When we were choosing what we were…
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Touch in a Pandemic: Gustavus Alum Performs in TEDxMinneapolis
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Gustavus Dance Alumnus Patrick Jeffrey ’10 is part of the company of dancers from the Black Label Movement performing in the virtual TEDxMinneapolis event “Adaptation” on October 23. The piece, How Do We Touch, When Touch is Gone, was filmed in late September under strict COVID safety guidelines that allowed dancers to be in contact…
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Gustavus Theatre and Dance Embraces Online Theatre With 48-Hour Theatre Project
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Over the weekend the Department of Theatre & Dance at Gustavus Adolphus College presented its “48-Hour Virtual Theatre Project.” Student directors Sam Peters ’23 and Miranda Johnsen ’21 each created a short online theatre piece in 48 hours and presented it via Zoom. The directors were given the theme “Protest” in class Friday afternoon. They…
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Fall art exhibits to open online and in-person
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While things look a little different this fall, three art exhibits are opening at Gustavus Adolphus College this week. Cancer Never Had Me: Views by Artists and Artists Who Had Cancer: Works from the Hillstrom and Shogren-Meyer Collections open September 14 in the Hillstrom Museum of Art. The Now and After, a science and science-fiction…