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Welcome, Assistant Professor Richard Hodges, Director of Voice Studies

Richard Hodges

Ryan Dudenbostel hosts virtual pre-concert talks for Bellingham Festival of Music

Ryan Dudenbostel wears a blue seater and holds a conductor's baton

Paul Bain to take up baton for Bands

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Art Professor Cara Jaye featured in Seattle Art Museum's "Mélange"

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In Memoriam: R. Allen Jensen

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Dance's Pam Kuntz, dance alums at Whatcom Museum for "Dialog(s)"

a sketch-like line drawing depicting a palimpsest of moving outlines of bodies

Jacob Scherr joins Music Department to direct bands

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Mark Kuntz play at Sylvia Center features Gabi Gilbride and Evan Mueller

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Celebrating Jim Lortz

Jim Lortz

What does a global history of architectural modernism look like?

Cover of a book called Rethinking Global Modernism shows a large ball of string

Heather Dudenbostel appointed Assistant Professor of Voice and Dramatic Arts

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Seattle dancer Cieon White teaching Hip-Hop Winter Quarter 2022

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Dub Dub U Double Reeds in the pit at McIntyre Hall

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Motionographer: Between the Keyframes Podcast unites Sarofsky and Shaw

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Patrick Midgely reviews "All the Devils are Here" in Theatre Journal

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Design Professor Austin Shaw kicks-off Camp Mograph

Enrapt design enthusiasts lean in to the circle of light, illuminated by firelight and wisdom

Chris Vargas and MOTHA featured in Artforum

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Nolan Dennett, architect of Dance program at Western, retires

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Susan Haines wins international recognition for dance film "the three graces"

Rich Brown in Oregon Contemporary Theatre's ART

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Kumihimo Wishes: Current Times by Seiko Purdue at Jansen Art Center

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Virtual Studio Tour with Fiber Arts Professor Seiko Atsuta Purdue

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Art History Professor Julia Sapin curates "Silk for Suffragettes and Schoolchildren" at the Whatcom Museum

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Cynthia Camlin's "Swamp/Garden" at Perry and Carlson Gallery

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Associate Professor Monique Kerman on the legacy of Okwui Enwezor

Professor Kerman wears a floral sleeveless blouse, and sunglasses on her head holding back her hair.

Red Clay Rambler interviews Ryan W. Kelly

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Ryan Kelly's Anxious Assembly at The Clay Studio

Veteran stage and screen director Shirley Jo Finney joins Theatre faculty

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Tamisha Guy teaching contemporary dance technique Spring Quarter

Biomechanics and dance training myths: Susan Haines takes the butt seriously

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Inside the Notes classical music podcast interview with oboist Andrew Parker

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Los Angeles composer joins music faculty to teach survey of video game music

D'Anthonu Wooten wears a red and blue t-shirt and looks calmly at the camera.

Prof. Jimena Berzal de Dios publishes "Chthonic Restitutions: Madness and Oblivion"

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Jazz Prof. Kevin Woods drops new album with Trio Linguae

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Sewing the shadow back on: connections between creativity, neuroscience and healing trauma

Deb Currier sits on the floor with small children learning a theatre exercise

Ryan W. Kelly "A Forest for the Trees" at Method Gallery

A giant head of Ryan Kelly. Behind are carnivalesque caricatures of animals, demons, witches

Rich Brown wins Carnegie Foundation recognition for teaching

Chris Vargas and MOTHA at the New Museum in NYC

Time-lapse of Christopher Hartshorne collaborative installation

R. Allen Jensen, Professor Emeritus

’Drawing - Untitled’, mixed media, 28”x 21” by R. Allen Jensen

Cynthia Camlin featured in North Seattle Art Gallery show MULTI

Cynthia Camlin | Water Fragment, 1-10, ink, watercolor and vinyl polymer emulsion on paper panels, 12 inches x 9 inches each. Image courtesy of the artist.

New Design faculty member has work featured in the Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts

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Cynthia Camlin Awarded Fellowship

Cynthia Camlin,Detail: "Angle of Repose," polymer emulsion on wood panel, 48" x 36", 2014.

Shibori demonstration for Art Inquiry Night at Wade King Elementary

Seiko Purdue demonstrates shibori fabric dyeing

Berzal de Dios publishes interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre

Cover of book: Visual Experiences in Cinqyecento Theatrical Spaces

Whipping It Up: A Collaborative Alchemy

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'Kuntz and Company' Receives $10,000 NEA Grant

Capoiera Angola

5th Inversion wins national recognition for new commissions, performances

In Memoriam: Sebastian Mendes

Professor of Art, Sebastian Mendes

Kids visit Seiko Purdue's fiber arts studio

Aitana de la Jara & Cara Jaye at ArtsWest Gallery

detail of Animal Noises by Cara Jaye, 2014

Brower recognized for sustainable lighting efforts in Western Gallery

Paul Brower

Art faculty Chris Vargas wins $50,000 Creative Capital Award

WWU Assistant Professor of Art Chris E. Vargas

Garth Amundson, SPENW Honored Educator

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Discover the fascinating Teatro Olimpico: an essay by prof. Jimena Berzal de Dios for Khan Academy

Palladio, Teatro Olimpico

Playwright Kamarie Chapman debuts space musical

Ded Reckoning: A Space Musical in two acts by Kamarie Chapman and Spencer Willow

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