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This is not an experience unique to Cowles. Many freshmen may find themselves frustrated with the narrow scope of visual arts programs the college offers to first years, as well as the lack of publicity for the programs that do exist. Another freshman, Henry J. Foo ’08, e-mailed the VES department looking for information on painting outside of class. He did receive a reply, though not a particularly helpful...
...none of these programs are close to the visual arts outlet for which Cowles and Foo are searching. If these two want easy access to a comprehensive variety of arts spaces and options, they’re going to have to wait another year. Each of the college’s 12 residential houses provides at least some form of creative outlet for undergraduates looking for a recreational approach to the arts. Opportunities range from house opera societies performing full-blown productions with dozens of participants to communal knitting circles with a handful of dedicated members...
...heart of the Lowell visual arts scene is the Lowell Arts Guild, coordinated by assistant senior tutor Debbie Sorensen (dsorens@fas.harvard.edu). The Guild provides painting classes every semester in the Art Room (located in the basement of L-entry...
Deep in the bowels of New Quincy are two visual art centers—the pottery studio and darkroom. Quincy’s pottery studio offers weekly classes with ceramist Holly Neufer for a fee of $50 per semester (contact Larry J. Peterson at lpeters@fas.harvard.edu). Unlimited access to the darkroom is available for $25. All Quincy residents are welcome to show any artistic creations during Arts First in an exhibit in the JCR (contact tutor Matthew H. McIntyre at mmcintyr@fas.harvard.edu...
Along with this capacity for practically unlimited surveillance comes the equally unlimited capacity for abuse. And furthermore, the problem remains that if you have access to all of the world’s communication, how do you choose what to listen to? And if you have visual access to the entire globe, where do you look...