Art, by definition, involves getting creative. And creativity is exactly what the Beacon studio art department mustered this month after the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the college into remote learning mode and scuttled plans for a traditional celebration of the Seventh Annual Juried Student Exhibition. The exhibit opened to the public March 2. It was scheduled […]
Jonah Bienhoff’s artwork reflects her experiences and struggles — “almost like a self-portrait.” Bienhoff, who is studying studio arts and anthrozoology at Beacon College, had three of her pieces accepted for the “Womanmade” exhibit at three galleries in Lake County, Fla. This will be her first art exhibition outside of school.
Beacon College humanities professor and pop culture expert Dr. William Nesbitt delves into one of the weirdest of weird Tinseltown tales in his new book Forsaken: the Making and Aftermath of Roger Corman’s “The Fantastic Four.”
Beacon College assistant professor of art Dustin Boise is a hard-charging soul in his desire to elevate students’ understanding and in his pursuits as a studio artist. Therefore, the one word you’d never associate with him is … “capitulation.” Yet, that word titled his solo exhibition that enjoyed an 11-week summer run at the Mount Dora Center for the Arts in Florida.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost Two Beacon College students channeled their inner bard in recently earning the top two spots in the fall semester installment of the school’s annual intramural “Poetry Writing Contest.” Samantha Humphreys won the contest with her poem, “Water.” […]
Fresh off her successful summer stint with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Beacon College alumna Lindsey Flax has scored another training opportunity with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Flax, from Atlanta, Ga., will serve as an education intern. The Institute of Contemporary Art promotes continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advances […]
None other than the great former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins kicked off Beacon College’s inaugural Beacon Salon Speaker Series in grand fashion with his Sept. 20 event in The Villages, Florida.
Collins delighted the audience of better than 100 fans, poetry-lovers, and Beacon students with his perspective of life that is at once whimsical and tragic, eccentric and universal, and ultimately thought-provoking.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
It was an important question Jack Kerouac posed decades ago as one of the luminaries of the Beat Generation’s writers — one that still demands an answer. Come go on the road to join a distinguished panel on March 29 at 7 p.m. at Beacon College for “The Beats: Radical. Rebellious. Relevant?” as panelists explore that question and others Kerouac and his contemporaries posed and debate the enduring relevance of their envelope-pushing work.
I have a dream. Fight the power. Make love, not war. The volatile 1960s peppered American culture with a wealth of activist and countercultural slogans. Another refrain has gained traction in today’s social powder keg: being woke. “Being woke,” notes Urban Dictionary, means “being aware … knowing what’s going on in the community.”
Famed French artist Edgar Degas once noted, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” For students in Sandy Novak’s visual communications class, that job already halfway was done. Students knew what they had to make youngsters in second though ninth grade see: themselves snagging their soaring dreams. How they would […]
