The Phoenix: The independent newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881

Suggestions

  • About
  • Advertising
  • Contact
  • Spring 2023 Masthead
  • Subscribe
  • The Phoenix’s Policies
  • Unsubscribe
  • Work For Us
  • News
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letter to the Editor
    • Staff Editorials
  • Arts
  • Sports
  • Campus Journal
  • About
    • Spring 2023 Masthead
    • Contact
    • Anonymous Tips/Feedback

The Phoenix: The independent newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881

visual art

Arts

Artist of the Week Elliot Kenaston on (De)construction

When Elliot Kenaston ’22 faced the prospect of spending his academic year confined indoors due to COVID, he opted to take a…

April 28, 2022
Placeholder Photo
Arts

Artist of the Week Miranda Roelandt ’22

As senior Miranda Roelandt described her commencement into film photography, she recalled wanting to find a new way to convey the intersection…

April 21, 2022
Arts/Highlights

Artist of the Week Ben Wade ‘23 on Capturing Moments

“Art is one of the few things that makes perfect sense to me,” said artist-runner-and-all-round-good-guy Ben Wade in our interview in his…

March 17, 2022
Artist Spotlight/Arts

Artist of the Week Jacob Weitzner ’22 on Function and Form

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…

February 24, 2022
Artist Spotlight/Arts/Highlights

Artist of the Week: Alyssa Zhang ’24 on Embracing Her Passion for the Arts

When Alyssa Zhang ’24 arrived on campus in the fall of 2020, she intended to pursue a double major in Economics and…

February 17, 2022
Arts/Highlights

Seeing Red Again: On Mark Rothko

Content Warning: This article contains imagery of suicide. Over winter break I took a long-awaited trip to the St. Louis Art Museum…

February 3, 2022
Artist Spotlight/Arts/Highlights

Artist of the Week: Philippe Kame on the Transformative Power of Art and Design

Ever since Philippe Kame ’23 was six years old, he knew he wanted to be an architect. To him, architecture is an…

November 11, 2021
Arts

Art in the Era of Climate Catastrophe

The winter has been eerily mild. While the January temperatures reaching into the sixties have been a welcome break from heavy jackets…

January 30, 2020
Arts

A Private Look into Privations

I have four siblings, and my family is poor. Both circumstances meant that until I was sixteen, the farthest I had travelled…

January 30, 2020
Arts/Highlights

Staff Art Steals the Show

As I made my way down to Kitao Gallery last Thursday, even from a distance I could hear music performances and lively…

November 14, 2019
1 2 Next

Latest Posts

President Smith Joins PSEG’s Board of Directors

December 7, 2022

Semester in Review

December 1, 2022

Why the I20 Fall Feast is Important to the Whole Campus

December 1, 2022

The Wrong Kind of Autopsy

December 1, 2022

Follow Us

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No feed found.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.

The Phoenix: The independent newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881

© 2020 - All rights reserved. Designed by The Fox Magazine theme

Categories

Categories

  • 411 with The Phoenix
  • A Still Small Voice
  • About
  • Acatalepsy
  • Admissions Spotlight
  • Advertisement
  • Ampersand Culture
  • April Fools 2014
  • April Fools 2015
  • April Fools 2016
  • April Fools 2017
  • Around Campus
  • Around Campus
  • Around Higher Education
  • Artist Spotlight
  • Arts
  • Arts & Features
  • Arts News
  • Asian Persuasion
  • Ask Us Anything
  • Athlete of the Week
  • Bailey's Beats
  • Balls to the Wall
  • Black Balls
  • Blotter
  • Books
  • Breaking News
  • Campus Journal
  • Caps Not Crosby
  • Chatter
  • Club Sports
  • College
  • Columnists
  • Columns
  • Columns
  • Columns
  • Conservative View
  • Crossword
  • De-Simplified
  • DG Roundtable
  • Dorm Dive
  • Duniya Shuniya
  • Edible Thinker
  • Editorial
  • Editorials
  • Editors' Picks
  • Essay
  • Essay
  • Etiquette
  • Faculty & Departments
  • Fall
  • Fall 1997
  • Fall 1998
  • Fall 1999
  • Fall 2000
  • Fall 2001
  • Fall 2002
  • Fall 2003
  • Fall 2004
  • Featured Stores
  • Features
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • Half-Hatched
  • Haverboy Speaks
  • Hi! Fashion
  • Hi! Fashion
  • Highlights
  • Humans of Swat
  • I On the Arts
  • If It Moves
  • Infographics
  • Inner Boundaries
  • Inside Capitol Hill
  • Into the Archives
  • Last Century Today
  • Let's Give a Damn
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Letters
  • Literally Literary
  • Live Tweets
  • London Calling
  • Longform
  • Loosely Liberal
  • M. Basketball
  • M. Soccer
  • M. XC
  • Men
  • Men
  • Men
  • Multimedia
  • Music
  • Music in Spaces
  • Musings of Mariani
  • News
  • Nothing to Declare
  • Obituaries
  • On The Top 40
  • Op-Ed
  • Op-Eds
  • Open Letter
  • Opinion
  • Out of Left Field
  • Out of the Swatbox
  • Periscope
  • Personal Essay
  • Philly Beat
  • poetry
  • Popular Science
  • Postcards from Abroad
  • Professor Gadget
  • Qualms
  • Radio
  • Real Talk with Slam
  • Region
  • Regional News
  • Reporting
  • Rethinking Green
  • Satire
  • Sciwrite
  • Season
  • Sex and the Swattie
  • Social Responsibility
  • Sports
  • Spring
  • Spring 1997
  • Spring 1998
  • Spring 1999
  • Spring 2000
  • Spring 2002
  • Spring 2003
  • Spring 2004
  • Staff Editorials
  • STEM Spotlight
  • Sticks and Stones
  • StuCo Platforms
  • Student Activities
  • Student Council
  • Student Council Platforms
  • Student Government
  • Sussing Out the Substance
  • Swarthmore Review
  • Swassip Girl
  • Swat Global
  • Swat Style Snapshot
  • Swat Style Snapshot
  • SXSW
  • Television
  • The Binge Reader
  • The Civil Libertarian
  • The Fan Letter
  • The Fan Letter
  • The Nascent Neoliberal
  • The Pragmatic Progressive
  • The Principled Progressive
  • The Quaker Matchbox
  • The Salty Swattie
  • The Same World
  • The Scrivener
  • The Spectrum
  • The Swarthmore Conservative
  • The Swarthmore Globalist
  • The Swat Historian
  • The Widening Lens
  • The World At Large
  • To Serve
  • Uncategorized
  • Voices
  • W. Basketball
  • W. Field Hockey
  • W. Soccer
  • W. Volleyball
  • W. XC
  • Week in Pictures
  • Weekly Features
  • Winter
  • WNR
  • Women
  • Women
  • Words of Wagner
  • XX On Science
  • 中文的故事
  • Subscribe
  • Advertising
  • Print Archives
  • Anonymous Tips/ Feedback
  • News
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Letter to the Editor
    • Staff Editorials
  • Arts
  • Sports
  • Campus Journal
  • About
    • Spring 2023 Masthead
    • Contact
    • Anonymous Tips/Feedback
The Phoenix