Art
The limits of expression
By Nathanael Check Art Column Inside an art museum in Los Angeles, CA, a massive canvas hangs in a plain white room filled with art enthusiasts, tourists, teachers and their students and museum regulars. On the canvas is an assortment of colors, each of different hues varying in tint and shade. Not one part of […]
Writing workshop encourages careers in art
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST “There’s nothing I’m more passionate about than young, Christian woman talking into a microphone,” a professional poet said to the women at the writing and revision workshop at 7:30 p.m. on March 3. Half a dozen people gathered to share their own poems and short stories, receive critical feedback and learn from poet Clare McCallan about art residencies and internships. […]
Artist shares works depicting mortality, need for community in overcoming grief
THERESA BALICK STAFF WRITER An artist shared her paintings on the theme of mortality and the story of her inspiration for them as part of the new art exhibit in the Gentile Gallery starting Nov. 14. Ann Schmalstieg, an artist, presented and explained in detail her unique paintings in a presentation to students, explaining the encaustic method of […]
Fine Arts Column: What is art? (Or Pittsburgh for that matter?)
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST The people of the present decade are a feisty bunch. I do not say this as an accusation—nor do I excuse myself from the charge—and yet, I think it to be a blessing that there remain some things we have yet to disagree on. Take, for example, the principle that […]
New pro-life movie revolutionizes faith-based film industry
RACHEL MILLER AND MAGGIE PAWSEY STAFF WRITER “If you love someone and think they might go to hell, would you let them die?” Students flocked to the Gentile Gallery on Saturday night to experience the answer to this dire question voiced in the thought-provoking film, “The Extrovert.” Director James Pinedo was inspired by the book, […]
Women’s ministry honors St. Edith Stein through art
EDYTA WOLK STAFF WRITER Wednesday night at the Fireside Lounge, dozens of women colored, painted and prayed at Women’s Ministry’s “Art with Edith” event. The event, another installment of the ministry’s Wednesday’s Women at the Well, gave students the opportunity to create artistic designs while learning about St. Edith Stein. As the women doodled, members […]
Fine Arts Column: Art should make you feel uncomfortable
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST If you have seen any of the plays that have been put on the Anathan theatre stage this semester…you doubtless felt uncomfortable at one point or another. Fine Between the deep, gripping, emotional, and intense main stage of ‘The Elephant Man,’ the craziness of the one act ‘Salome,’ and the […]
Fine Arts Column: Everything can be art?
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Have you ever heard the maxim “everything can be art”? I can tell you I have, and it makes me cringe. It makes me think of countless strange philosophical or even theological discussions that were meant with good intentions but have gone wrong because of a misunderstanding of what “art” […]