Crafting a full life in the arts
Mount Holyoke’s event Crafting a Life in the Arts shows students that the COVID-19 pandemic shouldn’t deter a sustaining life in the arts.
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Mount Holyoke’s event Crafting a Life in the Arts shows students that the COVID-19 pandemic shouldn’t deter a sustaining life in the arts.
Dance instructor Barbie Diewald used an iPad, laptops, a ladder and many props to bring the dance studio to her Mount Holyoke students — remotely.
Mount Holyoke’s Department of Film, Media, Theater is continually adapting to overcome the challenges of COVID-19.
“Boundaries,” an online art show, will have a virtual opening to showcase student art at Mount Holyoke.
Faced with adapting a dance classroom to online learning, Shakia Johnson created Black Beauty Dance, a remote program for all.
Music student Hannah Pozzebon ’20 longed for Pratt Music Hall so she built a Minecraft version of it.
When Mount Holyoke’s campus closed and Mara Benjamin’s Introduction to Judaism class couldn’t present an in-person exhibition, they made a virtual one.
When Mount Holyoke announced the move to distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, senior class dancers decided the show must go on.
“I’m interested in having my students document their experiences. Will the work they make now represent something about what this moment felt like?”