Arts in Education

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Student Events and Exhibits

2007-08 Extracurricular Art Activities

Poetry in the Parlor

From time to time throughout the school year, beginning on November 19, 2007, and continuing in early February 2008 and then again in early April, AIE students and friends convened in one another’s apartments for casual weekend poetry-reading sessions. Amy Hettinger, Liz Gruenfeld, Regan Doody, Sarah Martin, Jonas Cartano, Maggie Jacobstein, Carissa Johnson, Ashley Hensel-Browning, Anna Keefe, and others shared an eclectic variety of poems by poets such as John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Anne Carson, ee cummings, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Martin Espada, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Locklin, Mary Oliver, Edgar Allen Poe, Ezra Pound, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Greg Williamson—plus literary lyrics by the likes of Oscar Hammerstein II and Irving Berlin,. 

SLAP (Studio for Learning Arts through Practice)

At the beginning of October, AIE students Djuneid Dulloo and Anna Keefe created SLAP to provide “an educational and experimental space for the development and interaction of diverse artistic practices.” Each SLAP meeting featured one (or more) activity, lesson, or performance in the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, literature, or another artistic domain. On October 23, 2007, Jillian Levine-Sisson kicked off the year with an “Active Shakespeare Experience,” and Anna Keefe followed with a “Stage Combat Intro.”  On November 6, Ashley Hensel-Browning provided a creative movement experience for SLAP Open Space attendees, and LaurieAnn Dunn taught a lesson on installation art and the transformation of spaces. SLAP’s third meeting took place on November 14, when AIEers joined James Croft for “a raucous night of theatrical insanity inspired by the legendary Keith Johnstone and the ever-bizarre Ken Campbell.”  

Gutman Gallery Exhibits

On Monday, October 29, the AIE program hosted an opening reception for its Fall 2007 exhibit of student artwork in Gutman Gallery. AIEers enjoyed good snacks and company while supporting the artistic endeavors—from oil painting and photography, to children’s book illustration to a recorded dance performance of classmates—of Liz Byron, LaurieAnn Dunn, Djuneid Dulloo, Beth Gismondi, Liz Gruenfeld, Jodi Redmond, Janet Shih, and Andrea Tsang.
The exhibit ran through November 2. The next Gutman Gallery exhibit is scheduled for April 21—May 3, 2008.

Conroy Common Cabarets

On Wednesday, December 5, 2007, the AIE Class of 2008 hosted their first cabaret in the “garden-level” café of Longfellow Hall, featuring the musical, theatrical, and literary performances of current students Tyrone Sutton, Eve Kagan, Amy Hettinger, Andrea Tsang, James Croft, Arzu Mistry, Kelly Mastracchio, Jillian Levine-Sisson, and Program Coordinator Scott Ruescher. Carissa Johnson and Liz Gruenfeld emceed the program of musical, theatrical, literary, and movement pieces—including ragtime, blues, and classical piano playing, parlor-song, musical-theater, and folk-song singing, American tap and Indian ceremonial dancing, and homemade poetry reading.  Impromptu holiday caroling also figured into the evening, as did a strangely affecting exercise in harmonic applause rounds. (The spring-semester Conroy Cabaret will be scheduled for a Thursday evening in April.)