Dear IU Newcomer: First of all, congratulations on having made the right choice: attending IU. (I’m *mostly* kidding.) As a recent grad, I have a lot of thoughts about how I spent my time at IU and how, in light of the pandemic bringing last semester’s in-person activity to a screeching halt, I’d do things…… Read more »
A&H@Home: Spring ’20
Dear IU Newcomer: Choose Everything, Talk to Everyone.
Dear IU Newcomer: I am sure you are currently being bombarded with advice from your family, your friends, and your soon-to-be professors and administrators. Receiving even more advice might seem a tad too much to juggle… But if you are interested in the arts and humanities on campus, then hopefully these two simple tips will…… Read more »
Out of Your Comfort Zone: Selling Art Online
This summer I finally decided to do something that I have been meaning to try for years. I finally had the courage to open an Etsy shop and put my work out there in a different way. Ever since I have started to post my work on Instagram, I learned that you can be an…… Read more »
A&H Weekend Kit
It has been months of becoming accustomed to a new kind of living as a community. Quarantine life has forced us to become vigilant, caring, and cautious—but also creative. We hope that the past Student Pick blogs have been a source of insight and inspiration, as well as a bank of resources when it comes…… Read more »
Out of Your Comfort Zone: The Art of Trying Something New
Courtesy: Google Images Growing up, I was never a doodler. Any types of doodles on the margins of my notebooks were small and simple geometric shapes or, at my best, a picture of a flower. Looking at an object, a landscape, or a living thing in the environment and sketching it on a piece of…… Read more »
The Diverse World of Graphic Novels
This year, especially during these last few months, I have spent a lot more time trying to read things that are outside of my comfort zone. I typically stick to romantic fiction or young adult fiction, but I decided to start exploring the world of graphic novels. When I was younger, I sought out these…… Read more »
Trip to JSoM: Exploring IUMusicLive!
This week I got the chance to explore “IUMusicLive!“. This platform allows anyone to see live recordings as well as on-demand recordings of performances hosted by the Jacobs School of Music from the past year. I decided to watch an opera called La Traviata. La Traviata, Opera and Ballet Theater 2019-2020 season This opera is a…… Read more »
Trip to JSoM: A Glimpse at the International Guitar Festival
This week I was thrown into a world of whimsically bending strings, and colorful, flying chords. I watched the dexterous hands of classical guitarists move towards and away from the sound hole, coaxing the notes to fluctuate between tinny and sweet, as the musicians progressed perfectly through difficult pieces of music. When coming across the 10th…… Read more »
Trip to JSoM: Checking off my IU bucket list with an online Jacobs performance
A viewing of the Jacobs School of Music’s annual production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker often makes the list of “must-do” IU events. I, however, somehow managed to make it four years without settling into the seats at the Musical Arts Center (MAC) for the production’s dazzling visual array of festive holiday cheer. If…… Read more »
13th
The year 2020 has definitely been an interesting year, to say the least. At the beginning of the year, many people thought it was going to be a season filled with clarity, vision, renewal, and all the other positive words people generally claim to be a part of their “new year, new me” experience. Instead,…… Read more »