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The arts intersect with nearly every facet of life at Denison. Students often bring a passion for the arts, and once here they find new ones. Whether on campus as part of academic study, student organizations, or individual interests, or off campus in the nearby cities of Columbus and Newark or as part of study abroad, the arts create countless threads that are woven into the fabric of the Denison campus.

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Dancers in front of exhibition

Art and Space Connect and Encourage Empathy

Resident artists Christian and Anne Manns pay tribute to local history through exhibition “Monumental!”
Museum studies class

Beyond the Museum: Exhibiting Culture Today

An Interdisciplinary Museum Studies Class
Elaine Sheldon

Emmy-winning Filmmaker Looks for Hope in the Addiction Crisis

The day after winning an Emmy, documentary filmmaker Elaine Sheldon visited Denison and Newark
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Savannah Delgross ’19
Sara Abou Rashed '21 during rehersal

Arts Preview on Sara Abou Rashed ’21

The Columbus community previewed “A Map of Myself,” a one-woman performance by Sara Abou Rashed ’21, about her short-yet-complex personal history.
via Columbus Alive
Winslow Homer, The Boston Common

The American Dream

A student response to “Defining Childhood: Growing up in the US (1860-1940).”
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Sophia Raak ’20
Pablo Ziegler

Vail Series Announces 2018-19 Season

The Vail Series opens with a U.S. premiere — Pablo Ziegler — and adds a night of jazz, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, and a farewell to ETHEL.
via Newark Advocate
Hyekyung Lee

Music Faculty Awarded Prestigious Commission

HyeKyung Lee, associate professor of music, has been awarded a prestigious orchestral commission for the Eastern Music Festival.
Professor of Music Ching-chu Hu

American Prize in Composition Awarded to Professor

The American Prize in Composition for instrumental chamber music, professional division, has been awarded to Professor of Music Ching-chu Hu.
Sahil Vasudeva '08

Sahil Vasudeva ’08 Reimagines Classical Music

Former economics major Sahil Vasudeva ’08 stretches the boundaries of classical music with an “Un-Recital” at the Royal Opera House in India.
via The Hindu
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Associate Professor Sheilah ReStack Receives $43,800 Grant

Associate Professor Sheilah ReStack receives a $43,800 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, for ‘Future From Inside.’
John Davidson '63

John Davidson ’63 Looks Back over His Career in New Role of ‘Hook’

Actor/Singer John Davidson ’63 looks back over his long career in entertainment during his run as “Hook” in “Finding Neverland.”
via Tulsa World
Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Vail Series Hosts Recent-Grammy Winner Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Just two weeks after winning their 5th Grammy, the electrifying Ladysmith Black Mambazo takes to the Swasey stage.
via Newark Advocate
Susan Booth '85

Susan Booth ’85 Awarded $250,000 Women’s Leadership Grant

Alliance Theatre and Artistic Director Susan Booth ’85 were awarded $250K Women’s Leadership Grant, part of BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle.
via Arts Atlanta
Burton Hall of Music

Students Accepted to Prestigious Music Ensemble

Denison students Rachel Azbell ’19 and Anthony Bruno ’20 accepted into the 2018 Jazz Education Connection of Ohio Intercollegiate Jazz Ensemble.
The Burpees at TEDx Columbus

Improv Comedy with a Heart

Denison’s Burpee’s Seedy Theatrical Company uses a 24-hour marathon to raise funds for hurricane relief.
Students in studio

Soaking up art in New York City

Each year, studio art seniors travel to New York City to experience art in person, meet artists and take a pulse of the art world.
Denison anniversary stone plaque

Theatre Production ‘Big Love’ Follows 50 Brides, 50 Grooms

DU Theatre production asks the question: What else can you do if your father won’t protect you, your country won’t defend you- flee to another country?
via Newark Advocate
Em Rooney

Art faculty debuts at MoMA

Em Rooney, a visiting assistant professor of studio art at Denison, is among the artists debuting in a new MoMA exhibit, “Being: New Photography 2018.”
Ace Morgan Theatre

Denison Theatre season announced

The Denison Department of Theatre announces 2017-2018 season.
via Newark Advocate
Swasey Chapel at night

Vail Series Season Announced

Denison’s acclaimed Vail Series announces its 2017-2018 season with Eroica Trio, Catherine Russell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Eighth Blackbird.
Sheilah Wilson's art

Denison professor receives Howard Foundation funding

The Howard Foundation has awarded a $33,000 fellowship to Associate Professor Sheilah Wilson for her work, “SOTD (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion).”
via Newark Advocate
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DU Faculty and student turn backyard shed into an art venue

Visiting professor Blake Turner and art major Evelyn Kendix ’19, are transforming a back yard shed into an installation space for artists this summer.
via Columbus Dispatch
Lowell Byers

Lowell Byers ’08 wrote and stars in off-Broadway play about WWII

Lowell Byers ’08 wrote and stars in “Luft Gangster,” an off-Broadway play based on the true story of Louis Fowler, a WWII airman from South Carolina.
via Huffington Post
billboard on side of building

Prof. Sheilah Wilson turns public art into personal experience

Prof. Sheilah Wilson uses billboards to kick-start conversation and learning in an innovative project that teams students and local schoolchildren.
via Columbus Dispatch
billboard in the city

The Billboard Project hits the Streets

Denison Studio Art professor, Sheilah Wilson, works to place contemporary art on billboards in Newark, Ohio.
Bennett Berry

Bennett Berry ’00 makes memorable memes as part of his art

Bennett Berry ’00 is an accomplished studio artist who also is making waves with witty and clever memes - especially if you’re an Oklahoma Thunder fan.
via 405 Magazine
Exhibitionartist Sheilah Wilson

Exhibition by associate professor and artist Sheilah Wilson

“Shameless Light,” by associate professor Sheilah Wilson and partner Dani Leventhal, is part poetry, part video and drawings and part stage performance.
via Ruidoso News
documentary Amanda Knox

Matt Hamachek ’03 screens ‘Amanda Knox’ documentary at Denison

Matt Hamachek ’03 edited, co-produced, and co-wrote the documentary “Amanda Knox,” which will be screened, followed by a Q & A with Hamachek.
via Newark Advocate
scaled theatre

Denison Theatre: ‘The Traveller Returned’

Denison Theatre presents “The Traveller Returned,” a revival of a play by the first woman playwright in the U.S.A. - and still surprisingly relevant.
via Newark Advocate
The Last Arcade

Film by Kurt Vincent ’06, ‘The Lost Arcade,’ premieres in Columbus

“The Last Arcade,” a film by Kurt Vincent ’06 explores the lost culture of old-school arcades.
via Columbus Dispatch
art hanging in gallery

Brian Wills ’92: solo show in Paris

Brian Wills ’92, with Denison degrees in English and political science and a Master of Arts at Harvard, has opened his first Paris solo show.
via artdaily.org
Hal Holbrook as mark twain

Hal Holbrook ’48 finds “truth in Twain”

Hal Holbrook ’48 began his career presenting the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain on the Denison stage, He continues to bring Twain’s relevance to audiences.
via Newark Advocate
Mat McCabe

Mat McCabe ’88: Heidi Klum’s favorite photographer

Cinema major Mat McCabe ’88 has a 25-year career mostly in fashion and advertising photographer, and he has worked with Heidi Klum for more than 10 years.
via Chestnut Hill Local
Alex Moffat '04

Alex Moffat ’04 joins cast of Saturday Night Live

Chicago improv and sketch performer Alex Moffat ’04 joins the cast of Saturday Night Live for its upcoming 42nd season.
via Chicago Tribune
denison chapel interior

Denison announces Vail Series for 2016-2017

Denison University announces its Vail Series for the 2016-2017 academic year.
via Newark Advocate
Bee hotel sculpture

Buzz on Campus

Entomology, literature, and design are fed by imagination in this cross-disciplinary student project.

Newark Arts Space and Billboard Project receive OAC grants

Two Denison University projects, the Newark Arts Space and the Billboard Project, have received combined Ohio Arts Council grants of close to $14,000.
President Weinberg at Thirty One West

Denison proud to partner in local arts and economic development

President Weinberg and Professor Carlson express their commitment to the Thirty One West restoration in Newark.
via Newark Advocate
Arts Happen Here

The Arts at Denison

For the majority of our students, the arts play an integral role not only in their college experience, but also in the rest of their lives.
Jeffrey Hatcher

Unplanned success

Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher ’80 adapts a modern classic ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ for the stage.
by Cheyanne Cierpiel’16
Junzhi Wang

Partnering piano and physics

Physics and music make a harmonious counterpoint for Junzhi Wang ’16.
by Antrim Ross '16
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Molly Shanahan ’90

Alum Molly Shanahan recognized as a singular voice in Chicago
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Gretchen Giltner

Gretchen Giltner ’16

Luckily, the Denison Off-Campus Studies office suggested I study in Denmark, which was the best experience of my life.
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Profile of BFA Yue Nakayama

Yue Nakayama ’12 is a rising artist in Philadelphia. This interview tells why.
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HOIST – Cinema Installation

Visiting artist Liz Roberts worked with Cinema students to create “Hoist”
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Studio Art Majors to NYC

Since 2008 we have been taking our senior Studio Art majors to New York City.
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Crossing borders through dance

Research in Sri Lanka changed perspectives teaching and interpreting dance.
by Laura Estes ‘17
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Making Herself Heard

Singer/songwriter Caroline Spence ’11 visits campus to conduct a songwriting workshop.
by Antrim Ross '16