Bold Stories, New Perspectives, Lasting Impressions
![Image: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow]), The Last Thanks, 2006, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Wendy Red Star.](http://www.dickinson.edu/images/WendyRedStarExh.jpg)
Image: Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow]), The Last Thanks, 2006, archival pigment print, 24 x 36 in. Forge Project Collection, traditional lands of the Moh-He-Con-Nuck. Copyright Wendy Red Star.
Exciting fall performances, exhibitions on tap
Dickinson’s fall semester is here, and it brings an exciting lineup of dance, film, music, theatre and visual art to campus. Get in the know!
Field trip to the attic
We'll venture into the whimsical world of object theatre with Hidden Stories (Oct. 31-Nov. 2). This visually rich production, created by students in collaboration with faculty and staff, uses intriguing objects to bring forgotten memories to life.
Reality/Show
The fall dance concert, Reality/Show (Nov. 21-23), explores fractured truths, shifting realities and the meaning of human expression. Multimedia work by guest artist Jungeun Kim and choreography by Director of Dance Sarah Skaggs, in collaboration with guest artist Cori Kresge, tackle these questions: What is real, and what is artifice? How is authenticity shaped and shaken in the current age?
Music across genres
Get ready for a full schedule of genre-spanning musical performances.
A Pan-African Festival concert (Nov. 15) will bring flutist Victor Kendall, a member of Dickinson's class of 1973, into the limelight to perform the Quantz Flute Concerto in G Major and select movements from Flute Jazz Suite No. I by Claude Bolling.
First-year Seminar students will collaborate on a Dec. 5 concert inspired by what they've learned about protest movements during the 1960s and '70s.
Faculty recitals by soprano Lisa Turchi (Sept. 14) and cellist Michael Cameron (Sept. 27) will bring our celebrated educator musicians center stage. We'll celebrate student musical prowess during the annual jazz (Nov. 21), orchestra (Nov. 23), choir (Dec. 6, Dec. 7) and chamber music (Dec. 9) performances—and throughout the semester, through Dickinson’s Noonday Concert series.
Augmented film screening
On Sept. 20, Professor of Music Jennifer Blyth, a pianist, will perform live during a screening of the documentary A Return Home. Created by photographer and Dickinson lecturer Andy Bale (lead photographer) and Jon Cox (director) with a score performed by Blyth, the film tells the story of a displaced Ukrainian journalist who traveled to Ireland to speak with fellow asylum seekers and refugees.
Thought-provoking art
Indigenous artist Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, Crow), 2025 recipient of the Dickinson College Arts Award, will present an exhibition of recent works juxtaposing hand-painted cultural artifacts with photographs of the Crow Nation’s annual fair in Montana. Immediately following the Nov. 7 opening reception for her exhibition, Red Star will give the Arts Award address.
The Trout Gallery will host a reception for two exhibitions on Sept. 5. Imprint: Selected Gifts From Eric Denker ’75 celebrates the vision and generosity of a Dickinsonian who’s fostered a deeper understanding of the arts at his alma mater and far beyond. To Listen Deeply encourages viewers to engage with works of art on multiple sensory levels.
The photo-based multimedia in Still Small Voice: Works by Richard Boutwell, opening Sept. 10, examines thresholds between the physical and the spiritual. Artist Sarah Nance’s for evaporated seas (opening Oct. 14) reflects on our relationships with the natural world, with much of the work drawing from geologic data sets.
Halfway through their senior year, studio art majors in Dickinson's class of 2026 will take a practice run for their culminating thesis exhibition. The students' works-in-progress exhibition will open in the Goodyear Gallery on Nov. 19.
View the fall 2025 Calendar of Arts.
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Published August 27, 2025