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This Week in Photos: February 5

February 5, 2020

Yvonne Gay

Students walk through a gallery with dinosaur skeletons on exhibit.

A group of students, led by Professor Kathryn Metz, visits the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as part of the Museums as Community Assets project.

Photo credit: Mike Crupi

 

A student makes a book out of handmade paper.
In this Paper Making and Book Art Winter Term Intensive, students create books (after spending several weeks making paper) in the context of global history and culture. Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83

 

Students hold up department signs.
Sophomore Opportunities and Academic Resources (SOAR) leaders hold up department signs so students in their clusters can locate them at the start of the program’s two-day retreat. Photo credit: Yvonne Gay

 

A student gives a gallery talk to her peers in an art museum.
A student in the Practicum in Museum Education project leads a gallery talk for classmates in the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko

 

A girl stands on an outside balcony with the Washington Memorial in the background.
Ysabella Atehortua ’22 in Washington, D.C., during a congressional internship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Photo credit: Courtesy of Ysabella Atehortua ’22

 

A woman dances in front of an audience.
A student performance in the Physical Dance Theater Technique project with LaJa Martin (pictured front). Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko

 

A choir practices in a large room.
The Phlox ensemble choir practices historical and contemporary works by women, trans, and non-binary composers. Photo credit: Dale Preston ’83

 

Actors in prairie dog costumes surround a female actor during an opera performance.
The Wild Beast of the Bungalow takes center stage in Warner Concert Hall. Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko

 

A man balances on a board.
This brave student tries indoor snowboarding, just one of several events at this year’s Winter Term Carnival in Hales Gym. Photo credit: Yevhen Gulenko

 

A man sits at a computer wearing headphones.
Faculty, staff, and students record their favorite passages written by Toni Morrison as part of an upcoming campus celebration of the late author on February 18. Photo credit: Lucie Maria Weismueller

 

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