This Fall, the art department experienced a directional shift following the retirement of Professor of Art Syd Carpenter. Carpenter’s area of expertise was in ceramics, and because of her retirement, the department is no longer offering ceramics courses and is instead looking
Jocelyn Auld ʼ23 sees extraordinary beauty in the everyday and mundane. Midway through our interview in the Kohlberg courtyard, she paused to describe the wonder she saw in her line of vision. “Right now I’m looking through the windows of Kohlberg to
You’ve probably seen Jacob Weitzner ’22 around campus sporting his handmade shoes and pandemic-era shoulder-length hair. Jacob has that indescribable quality that tells you upon first glance that he has a deep connection with nature. It’ll come as no surprise, then, that
For potter, painter, and singer Rivers Redclay ’23, art is a method of community bond-building and a connection to the natural world. At Swarthmore, she is majoring in studio art and film and media studies. She grew up around art, and since
