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...material from Sundance kept stressing how the festival was about having your work seen by an audience and not about the awards, which made it clear that it was all about winning an award. It also kept addressing everything to the director, in this case a team of respected visual artists called Walter Robot, instead of to me, the star and writer. Sundance seems to think directors matter. As if people fly to Utah for a film festival because it was started by the director of The Legend of Bagger Vance...
...paint therapy? VES Lecturer Drew Beattie asked his students to dig deep and throw everything they found onto canvas. The results were displayed at the VES 25: Non-Observational Painting open house on January 9. Roving Reporter showed up to admire the artwork and bother people.Drew Beattie, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental StudiesRR: What is your middle initial?DB: I don’t really use it.RR: Sure, but it’s The Crimson’s style to attribute people using their middle initials.DB: No.RR: Okay. So what were you trying to get your students to accomplish...
...career writing gritty films like “Raging Bull” and directing urban classics like “American Gigolo.” Schrader was present at two of the six HFA screenings and also reached out to students at Kirkland House and in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) during his time in Cambridge.As a student himself in the late sixties and early seventies, Schrader did not plan to become a director. He received a late introduction to the world of film, prevented by his strict Calvinist background from seeing a movie until...
...creation of the Task Force.Mya M. Mangawang, who will teach her first freshman seminar entitled “Compulsion to Photograph,” this spring, believes that small class sizes are critical to enriching the study of arts on campus. Mangawang is new to the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Her hiring is part of a trend of employing young faculty to teachfreshman seminars that, according to the Program’s Department Administrator, Corinna S. Rohse.“It’s a sign of the hiring in [the Music and Visual and Environmental Studies] departments...
...Students Choose” exhibit might have looked unwelcoming, tucked away in the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center. But this Visual and Environmental Studies exhibit was just the way to remind Harvard students of the power art can have and its sophisticated way of providing both artists and viewers an alternative way to explore and express.The first segment of the two-part exhibit ran from January 20-30—the second part is currently on exhibition through February 13—and featured the work of 13 student artists from various fall semester VES studio classes. Each...