A Spring Awakening: College Announces New Public Arts Events
Fresh lineup of residencies, performances, exhibits in store
Awaken your senses this spring with an event lineup filled with invigorating performances, exhibits, readings and residencies! This semester, you’ll find a variety of high-profile and high-impact public arts events on campus.
Three major residencies anchor the arts events this spring:
- Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim returns to Dickinson to work with music students and to present an evening of music for violin and piano.
- Award-winning author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nick Hornby visits campus as the 2024 Stellfox Award winner and will hold a public reading and book signing on Feb. 21.
- Rising-star composer and pianist Maria Corley will complete an extended residency at Dickinson, culminating with a guest artist recital on April 5. Students will perform Corley’s work, with input from the composer. Corley will also perform alongside baritone James Martin, assistant professor of music, on Feb. 23.
The coming-of-age rock musical Spring Awakening comes to Dickinson March 1-3. The eight-time Tony Award-winning original production debuted on Broadway in 2006 with a cast led by Jonathan Groff (“Hamilton,” “Mindhunter”), Lea Michele (“Glee”) and John Gallagher Jr. (“American Idiot,” “The Newsroom”).
Also noteworthy is a lecture by Sarah Lewis of Harvard University. Named this year’s Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecturer in the Arts, Lewis will discuss her forthcoming book, Unseen Truth: How Race Changed Sight in America.
And the music department partners with Dickinson’s Title IX & Sexual Respect Office with a combined concert, lecture and demonstration by harpist Jessica Browning in April. Browning will discuss her own healing process and the ways that music facilitated her healing. She’ll also offer somatic and breath exercises for audience members to try.
Here are the spring events by category:
Creative Writing
Feb. 21: Reading, Q&A and Book Signing with Stellfox Honoree Nick Hornby
Dance & Theatre
- March 1-3: Spring Awakening, presented in conjunction with the Department of Music.
- April 19, 20 and 21: Freshworks: An Evening of Student Choreography
- April 6: Cut Loose: Weiss Prize Performance by Brianna Weber ‘24
Music
- Feb. 16: Guest Artist Recital: David Kim (Violin)
- Feb. 23: Just Duet: James Martin (Baritone) and Maria Corley (Piano).
- March 22: Guest Artist Recital: Jack Sutte (Trumpet) and Craig Ketter (Piano)
- March 28: Noonday Concert
- April 5: Guest Artist Recital: Maria Corley, Piano
- April 8: Guest Artist Recital: Jessica Browning (Harp): Healing Through Music
- April 11: Noonday Concert
- April 13 and 14: Music About Social Justice: The Dickinson College Choir
- April 18: Noonday Concert
- April 19: Jazz Ensemble Concert
- April 28: Orchestra Concert, featuring a work by William Grant Still and a performance by the winner of Dickinson's Concert Competition.
- April 30 and May 2: Chamber Music Concerts
Visual arts
- Jan. 31: Opening Reception: Joe Meiser: Viridian Fractal Supernova
- Feb. 5: Lecture: Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, the Making of an Exhibition, presented by Laura Turner Igoe ’04, chief curateor at the James A. Michener Art Museum.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History, the Trout Gallery and the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples. - Feb. 23: Opening Reception: Paintings by Louisa Chase (1951-2016), curated by students in Dickinson's art history senior seminar.
- Feb. 28: Closing Reception: Conversations Over Clay, showcasing collaborative works made by CASD High School and Dickinson students.
- Feb. 29: The Boundaries Imagined: Louisa Chas Lunch & Learn
- March 6: Opening Reception: The Clay Studio Resident Artists
- April 4: The Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Arts: Sarah Lewis
- April 12: Opening Reception: Studio Art Post-Bac Resident Intern Belle O’Shaughnessy ’23
- April 19: Opening Reception: Senior Studio Art Majors’ Thesis Exhibition
Learn more about current and upcoming art exhibitions at Dickinson.
View the Calendar of Arts.
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Published January 29, 2024