ARTISTS
Jessica Rylan 8pm Feb.15th Spark Contemporary Art Space |
Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician whose main focus to date has been the design and construction of modular synthesizers, which use analog electronic circuits to create a diversity of sounds. She uses her synthesizers in installations at galleries and also in her high-energy, live musical performances. Her contribution to the male-dominated noise music genre, as well as her increasingly complex and well-respected synthesizer designs have made her a force to be reckoned with in the arts and music communities.
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YaYa Chou 7pm Feb. 17th 121 Schaffer Auditorium |
Chou is a fiber and video artist, sculptor, and painter who uses common materials in unconventional ways, employing embroidery, paint, gummy bears, collage, and animation to reach her goals. She often uses animal images in her work to critique their use in commercial goods. Through her work she examines people’s desire to own wildlife and bring it into their homes, and the irony of untamed animals in domestic settings. |
Rebecca Schwartz
7pm Feb. 19th
Spark Contemporary Art Space
Schwartz is a Philadelphia-based professional singer/songwriter who has been performing both faith- based and secular music since the mid-70s. She has performed in clubs in Philadelphia as well as in synagogues. Schwartz currently has 3 CDs currently, one of secular love songs and 2 of Jewish music and liturgy. She also teaches and helps lead choirs in the Philadelphia area. |
Sarah Kramer
7pm Feb. 20th
Hall of Languages 500
A vegan chef and co-author of How it all Vegan (referred to by fans as the “Vegan Bible”) Kramer believes veganism is about more than food, it is a positive compassionate lifestyle choice and that even little choices we make such as the food we eat or the shoes we buy have a direct impact on how the world turns. |
Chilean Arpilleras Exhibit
On display 11 Feb. - 23 Feb.
Closing Reception 6pm Feb. 23rd
Smith Hall Lobby
| These arpilleras, on loan from Marjorie Agosín's collection, are tapestries made by Chilean women. These pieces chronocled the oppressive Pinochet regime. They tell stories of lost, disappeared or all together murdered loved ones at the hands of Pinochet. The arpilleras were eventually smuggled out and sold. |
Diane Cluck
8pm Feb. 23rd
Panasci Lounge
| Tangentially associated with the anti-folk scene, Diane Cluck is what some would call a minimalist. Her bare bones songs leave out unnecessarily ornate instrumentation but the ring of her voice is enough to electrify and create an aura of intimacy. |
Kimya Dawson
8pm Feb. 23rd
Panasci Lounge
Born and Raised in Bedford Hill, NY, Kimya Dawson is best known as part of the anti-folk outfit The Moldy Peaches but is shining in her own right as solo artist, with 2002’s I’m Sorry that Sometimes I’m Mean, and 2004’s Hidden Vagenda receiving critical praise. |
Marjorie Agosín
7pm Feb. 24th
Maxwell Auditorium
| Agosín, a human rights activist and writer, is a Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and author of Dear Anne Frank. The descendant of Russian and Austrian Jews who fled to Chile to escape the Pograms and Holocaust. Agosín lived in Santiago de Chile until age sixteen; and came to the United States to escape a military coup. Agosín has won numerous awards for both her human rights work and literary endeavors. She has written forty books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays. She brings with her a personal collection of Chilean arpilleras, handcrafted tapestries made to raise an awareness of the plight of their loved ones -- murdered, missing, and tortured under the Pinochet Regime. |
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