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...Carolyn is luminous and transformative,” Videt said. However, for an actor so naturally gifted, Holding entered her freshman year as a hesitant artist. “I resisted theater to some extent at first,” Holding says, reflecting on her entry into the Harvard theater scene...
Despite her apprehension after this experience, for her first production at Harvard she managed to find a vibrant community. “One project just popped up one after the other,” Holding says. “I realized that the artists at Harvard are incredibly engaged, constantly working, and always motivated,” she continued. As she performed on Harvard’s many stages, her hesitancy for theater disappeared. “It seems like I’ve slowly come around full circle,” she says...
Stryon, who started out as a poet, said she first became interested in human rights after an Afro-Asian writers’ convention in Russia and then joined Amnesty International...
Once out of the dark room, Lieberman gravitated toward sculpture and video. Her first video, “PATTY,” takes its subject matter from the security-camera footage of Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), robbing a bank along with her captors. The piece incorporates aspects of the SLA’s manifesto, fairy tales, 1970s horror and science-fiction film, TV news interviews and would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas’ radical feminist “SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto...
Lieberman attributes the most influence, however, to Helen Mirra, the artist and VES professor who taught Lieberman’s first sculpture class and advised her thesis this year. Mirra pushed the conceptual boundaries of Lieberman’s art, particularly regarding formal and material decisions in her sculpture work. “She and I are really different, but I think in the way she approaches talking about art, her work and other people’s work, we speak the same language,” Lieberman says. “I like the ways she critiques...