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 […]
In her novel, The Rose Society, Marie Lu observes that, “The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.” Artist Lee Clarke long has been drawn to the intriguing correlation between masks used for different purposes and that confluence of truths. Clarke explores that […]
After keeping their noses to the grindstone in their studies during the day, students in Beacon College’s Summer of Success program need to unwind. Wednesday night, at the gazebo at the Village Apartments, Beacon’s casting guru — eager to help students blow off steam — decided to give them a hand. Actually, their hands. Russell […]
The dreaded “freshman 15” is the scourge of collegians everywhere. More insidious, however, recent studies have found that packing on the pounds isn’t limited to the first year. It’s perhaps the desire to spare his six-pack from ballooning into a 12-pack that drew Adam Haycraft to the odd fruit-adorned cart recently parked outside the Student […]
