by Charles Hamer | Jan 23, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
What started with another presentation ended up being the most personal and nuanced creative experience I’ve encountered in my time in D.C. thus far. When I first visited Studio Theatre’s Website, I grew weary of their use of edgy to describe the range of contemporary...
by Sam Maul | Jan 22, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
On Sunday, January 19, we had the pleasure of visiting Dance Place in the Brookland/Edgewood community of Washington D.C. Dance Place is a non-profit organization, founded in 1978, that aims to enrich the lives of community members through high quality performances,...
by Hannah Summers | Jan 18, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
“There is not anything of human trial That ever love deplored or sorrow knew No glad fulfillment and no sad denial Beyond the pictured truth that Shakespeare drew.” -William Winter, inscription on wall of the Great Hall at the Folger Library As the...
by Holly Beck | Jan 17, 2020 | Performances, Site Visits
January 9th was a long day. Our morning started bright and early at 8:00 am, when part of our group journeyed to the Dirksen Senate Building to meet United States Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota at her “Minnesota Morning” program, a time in which Senator...
by Katherine Marshall | Jan 17, 2020 | Site Visits
“There is no more valuable position than that of a teacher.”- Nicola Benedetti, professional violinist Arts education is something that has been imperatively important to my own journey in getting to where I am in life, including to this course. Similarly, I think the...
by Thomas Weinheimer | Jan 16, 2020 | Site Visits
The Arts and Democracy gang’s visit to the offices of The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities sparked a new level of interest in surrounding support for the arts on a national level in the DemArtsDC class. This was our first real...
