Arts

Playwright and teacher Sheri Bailey, an advocate for racial healing and dialogue, brings next Writers Read installment

by Lauren Jefferson

“A great forum for people with radically different perspectives to have a reasonable discussion” – that’s how playwright Sheri Bailey characterizes one of her most popular plays, “Abolitionists’ Museum,” in
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Alumna’s ‘Creation’ series of six vibrant, colorful paintings hangs in renovated Suter Science Center

by Randi B. Hagi

Alumna Katherine Burling’s six-piece “Creation” painting series was stashed carefully in storage while Suter Science Center renovations were completed. In the ensuing months, much has changed in Burling’s life. She’s
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‘This generation’s cigarette’: media and religion professors team up to analyze selfie culture

by Kara Painter

Cell-phones are this generation’s cigarette. That was one analysis provided by Jerry Holsopple and Linford Stutzman to students participating in an October Living and Learning Forum at Eastern Mennonite University.
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‘Searching for Zion’ author visits campus to kick off 2015-16 Common Read focus on race, identity and culture

by Lauren Jefferson

Of all the possible suggestions that came to Common Read committee chair Tara Kishbaugh from the Eastern Mennonite University community, one topic bubbled to the surface. “Race,” said Kishbaugh, a
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Poetry of and from the heart: cardiologist Joseph Gascho ’68 brings new perspectives of medicine, healing to Homecoming

by Walt Wiltshek

Contract, pump, relax, fill. The heart takes blood in, then pumps it back out through the body, with life in each heartbeat. Joseph Gascho notices these patterns in his work
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Chilean-American writer Marjorie Agosín helps to inaugurate Latino Heritage Month, brings poetry and art to campus

by Lauren Jefferson

Many on the Eastern Mennonite University campus are anticipating the Sept. 17-18 visit of Chilean-American writer Majorie Agosín. A professor of Latin American studies and Spanish language at Wellesley College,
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