As the semester is finally kicking into gear, I think we can all say that virtual learning is confusing and stressful at times. It’s hard to adjust to a totally online classroom space. While we try to get through the rest of this pandemic, let’s make the best of our virtual learning. Here are 10… Read more »
Do Not Fear—Lotus Is Back This Year!
The annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, organized by the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation, has been a source of pride for the city of Bloomington and an inspiring event for the many people that happen upon it—or even travel miles to attend it. During my time as a student at IU, I would… Read more »
Public Art: From Bloomington to Black Lives Matter
(Image taken by Jeremy Hogan, 2020) My first encounter with this mural was during my freshman year on campus. I remember walking down Kirkwood and seeing people pose in front of it in their matching IU gear for Instagram. It had just been freshly painted by local artist Eva Allen in 2017, during a time… Read more »
Public Art: Alexander Calder’s “Peau Rouge Indiana”
As a humanities student, I spent most of my time in the older parts of campus. But when time permitted, I’d often walk past the huge red sculpture outside the Jacobs School of Music’s Musical Arts Center (MAC). The piece—famous American sculptor Alexander Calder’s Peau Rouge Indiana—was created by Calder specifically for its location in… Read more »
The Arts & Humanities Creativity Kit: Just a Box (Until You Open It)
This semester is off to a much different start than usual, with the campus arts and humanities community’s typical host of shows, lectures, and performances either virtual or modified. But the beauty of the arts and humanities is how adaptable we can be when presented with the constraints of Covid and social distancing. This Thursday,… Read more »
Dear IU Newcomer: Say Yes. Then Say No.
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 »
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 »