Mary Hierholzer ’16 With a mere self-portrait, Becky Orcutt ’16 won the favor of a role model artist and landed herself an art show in Alaska. The aspiring artist entered her work in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA) 27th annual “No Big Heads” self-portrait contest. Out of 85 submissions, Orcutt’s colored pencil piece, “Breath,” [...]
Jack Hanke ’15 Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is the quintessential absurdist play. It is mystifying; minimalistic; somewhat stark; vaguely depressing and yet, from time to time, oddly uplifting. The solitary willow tree on a hill of mud, which serves as the set, is the entire production in microcosm: sparse almost to a fault, but [...]
Becca Reitmeyer ’14 Two years ago, Jonmichael Tarleton ’15 entered Gordon with the dream of creating an a cappella group on campus—this spring, it’s a goal that has finally been realized. “It’s super high energy. It’s a unique sound. And it allows for abnormal arrangements of classic music or classic songs,” Tarleton said of a [...]
Mallory Moench ’14 The QU4RTETS exhibit is a poetic, artistic, musical and theological collaboration spanning seventy years, two continents, five individuals and the divide between life and death. A collaboration between Makoto Fujimura, artist and founder of the Fujimura Institute; Bruce Herman, painter and Lothlorien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts at Gordon College; Christopher Theofanidis, [...]
Jack Hanke ’15 Gordon’s theater department has been churning out engaging productions for many years. Now the Producer’s Society, the school’s new student-run drama club, has proven that it, too, can create remarkable stage art. Its debut product, Sweeney Todd, is a magnificent success on virtually every front. Directed by Cristin Gordon ‘13 and Cassie [...]
Becca Reitmeyer ’14 “Being able to play music every night, that’s my favorite,” said Michael Gungor, discussing one of his favorite parts of touring. Gungor, the musical group that has created such songs as “Beautiful Things” and “Crags and Clay” will be making one of the stops on their tour at Gordon College, where they [...]
By Jesse Steele ’15 In 1984, Sunglasses at Night was No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, but this year it’s the theme of CEC’s upcoming dance. The dance is one of CEC’s smaller events, but it still takes effort from every member. The music team is at work looking for a DJ while publicity [...]
By Katherine Stephens ’14 A hedge-fund manager, a publicist, a waitress, an iron worker, a businessman and a housewife tell their stories through song in a non-stop 80 minute theater production called “Working,” opening in Barrington’s Blackbox theater on Friday, Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Why do they work, whom do they work for and [...]
By Becca Reitmeyer ’14 Phil Wickham’s music has been played in the A.J. Gordon Memorial Chapel before, but not like this. On October 18, famed Christian artist Phil Wickham will be headlining a concert where students normally gather for chapel service. The concert will be held in the chapel at 7 p.m., and will be [...]
By Maja Giguere ’16 Wildly different ideas just popped into Jean-Paul Disciscio’s head: a girl with zombie parents, an alien love interest, Frosted Frog cereal and a mad scientist. These different concepts are all united in one music video, which Disciscio produced this summer for “Every Little Thing You Love,” a song by a local [...]