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According to the Office for the Arts (OFA), the visual work of Council Prize in Visual Arts winner Alexandra M. Hays ’09 “addresses the critique of social customs and expectations of the West’s myopic perspective on the East, especially China.” But Hays does not entirely agree with this interpretation. Yes, Hays admits, her background as an East Asian Studies concentrator has influenced her art more than a history of working from any particular medium. “But I’m not really an artist...
...seems poised for success.Despite her natural inclination for the stage, Lloyd-Bollard has an abiding love for all the arts. “I do all kinds of creative things,” she says. “I write, I play the guitar, I do a lot of visual art.” She hopes to use other media in her work. “In ‘Blasted,’ we incorporated video into the theater. I’m really interested in doing that.” For her, the theater seems...
...eighth grade. Always interested in his Jewish heritage, Miller became fascinated by the Jewish steam baths, or shvitz. One documentary later, Miller had laid the foundations for a career of turning personal passions into art. Several years after his first foray into filmmaking, Miller has a multi-faceted Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) thesis behind him and an undergraduate education’s worth of maturity...
...Powers enjoys painting because his work doesn’t have to fit into a niche. While growing up, Powers drew lots of comic strips, with Tintin as an early inspiration. But with his arrival at Harvard, his interest in painting intensified. He credits the faculty of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department—including Nancy Mitchnick—and his fellow students with helping him develop his style. “I think the great thing about Harvard is you’ve got a broad range of people doing art,” he says...
...thought it could be fun to take what I had thought of as a hobby and make it the meat of my academic work,” she says.Two years later, Whitaker has successfully made the history of cinema the centerpiece of her academic life at Harvard as a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator. She just finished writing her senior thesis on the Grove Press, a publishing house and film production company that published such then-controversial works as “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”“I wanted to use film...