Sitting Down with AU's Advising Staff
Rana Attia | May 10, 2018This fall, American University will implement a new advising program for freshman, one that should alleviate the stress of having many students and limited advising appointments.
This fall, American University will implement a new advising program for freshman, one that should alleviate the stress of having many students and limited advising appointments.
Full of Greek memories, Professor Despina Kakoudaki smiles as she reflects on how her upbringing has influenced her love for literature, film, and teaching.
Below you will find an email interview with The White Pube, an art criticism (and sometimes curatorial) collaborative duo based on the www (and physically in the UK) between Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. If you've got some time, you can click around on their website before reading this, and check out some of their podcasts, exhibition reviews, ideas, and hosted artists-in-residence on the site so you can have a lil context before diving in here.
Ani Bradberry is an art historian, writer, and installation, neon, and sound artist based in DC and Brooklyn. Ani is one of the founding editors of DIRT DMV, an “independent platform and resource for accessible critical arts discourse” here. She’s currently in a group show at Transformer which delves into Iranian-American experiences in multiple mediums. She also received her BA and MA from AU!
"Tsedaye Makonnen is an Ethiopian-American interdisciplinary artist, a mother and a former doula. Recurring themes present in her work are identity, colorism, womanhood, ritual and kinship."
Chloë Bass is a conceptual artist and public practitioner based in New York “working in performance, situation, publication, and installation. Her work addresses scales of intimacy, where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand, and daily life as a site of deep research.”
Brian Chaidez interviews local artist and photographer Eduardo Escamilla.
On Thursday morning, I sat down with my friend Jack Tollman. He lives down the hall from me on campus at AU and is originally from London. He is a freshman planning on majoring in Psychology with a minor in Graphic Design, but in his own words, with a laugh and a head shake, he says “it changes every day.” His artwork usually zones in on the individual as a subject, whether they be real people in his life or famous artistic figures. His preferred medium is chalk drawing. Below is a Q&A with a few examples of his work.
CONTENT WARNNG: graphic nudity in videos, discussions of sex and assault