Portraiture is incredibly intimate. A few years back, my art teacher shared an anecdote in class. Using her husband as a model, she practiced a new viewing technique. Trying to better understand the physicality of portraiture, she gazed at him, slowly caressing
Andy Im ’25 was the first person to ask for my name in our Painting III: Fresco course. Mariel Capanna, a visiting assistant professor of art, had just admitted me to the class, and I was quite overstimulated by students plastering small
Is art integral to the human experience? The passion of Alyia Carlson ’26 bleeds through the lines of the frescoes she paints. When I observe her work, I notice how it becomes an extension of her being. Her color holds a vitality
For the last two years, Howard Wang ’26 has snapped photographs of almost every Artist of the Week. Throughout my time at The Phoenix, I’ve noticed his photos become progressively more beautiful. Elijah Santos ’26 became a visual poem among the reeds,
Last semester, I took a Poetry Workshop led by English Professor Betsy Bolton. We met on Mondays for three hours, and I always dreaded the feedback sessions, unless I was reading my classmates’ work. Of the twelve-or-so students, Foster Hudson’s ’26 work
Last week, I received my first nomination for Artist of the Week. I was a bit surprised because I tend to reach out first. Lucy Tobier, our News Editor, emailed me that Jules Kyung-Lee Zacheis ’24 had received several community requests. Understandably,
The first time I saw Paris Kampel’s ’27 work, I was hanging up pieces for the annual first-year art show in Kitao, our student-run art gallery. I held her skateboard in my hands with sheer awe. Her colors were fluorescent, her skin
About a week ago, Benelli Amosah ’24, and I were chatting in the elevator as we often do. I was curious about the trolley of camera equipment parked outside her room, so I naturally wanted to know why. To my surprise, Benelli
I met Ark Lu ’24 in our Painting III: Materials and Methods class. It was led by Visiting Assistant Professor Dani Levine. When I walked in for our first critique, our studio space had dozens of abstract calligraphy “experiments” scattered among the