Jerry Holsopple Archives

‘Bonhoeffer: Cell 92’ opens at EMU, slated for spring tour in Austria

January 16, 2022Last updated March 15, 2022 by EMU Communications

Theater-goers in the Shenandoah Valley will get the first look this winter at an Eastern Mennonite University production that will embark on a European tour in 2022. Bonhoeffer: Cell 92

EMU’s original rock musical ‘U2 Romeo & Juliet’ is a gritty, rapturous tale of love in chaos

October 2, 2021Last updated March 15, 2022 by Florence Barrett

Editor’s Note 12/20/2021: This production earned multiple awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival: Certificates of Merit for co-creators Justin Poole and Jerry Holsopple and fight choreographer Wolf

Students travel through Lithuania in first in-person cross-cultural since the pandemic

August 10, 2021Last updated August 16, 2021 by EMU Communications

Eastern Mennonite University resumed its traditional cross-cultural programming this summer, as Professor Jerry Holsopple, assistant leader Fabiana Espinal, and eight students photographed their way across Lithuania in June and July.

Grant funds collaborative project on visual forms of Anabaptist worship

February 1, 2021Last updated February 8, 2021 by Randi B. Hagi

Jerry Holsopple, professor of visual and communication arts at Eastern Mennonite University, was recently awarded a Vital Worship Grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. He and co-applicant Rebecca

Young artists dream of Herm and his coat of many colors

October 15, 2020Last updated October 19, 2020 by Lauren Jefferson

A colorful glitter makeover for Herm, EMU’s mascot, supplied by winning artist Violet Horst, took first place in this week’s Homecoming coloring contest. Approximately 50 entries were judged by Visual

‘Persist’: Digital media students produce documentary on first triathlon team

April 21, 2020Last updated April 28, 2020 by Randi B. Hagi

This is the story of five student-athletes who, amidst nursing clinicals, cross-country practices, late nights with friends and early mornings of exams, became Eastern Mennonite University’s first women’s triathlon team.

‘More than a grade’: Class assignment animations to appear in Standing Rock documentary

September 20, 2018Last updated October 11, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Not just any class assignment gets a national audience – but that’s exactly what’s happening this fall when animation by Eastern Mennonite University visual and communication arts students will appear

Senior Luke Mullet rises to the challenge at NYU Film Scoring Workshop

August 22, 2018Last updated November 1, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

The words Luke Mullet uses to describe his two weeks at a film scoring workshop this summer say a lot: “challenged” – “absolutely packed” – “massive increase” in understanding –

Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: ‘Meet students where they are’

May 16, 2018Last updated May 21, 2018 by Lauren Jefferson

Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University’s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant baseball coach Adam

New marketing and organizational leadership majors will develop professionals to meet dynamic, expanding opportunities

March 29, 2018Last updated April 3, 2018 by Christopher Clymer Kurtz

Two new majors at Eastern Mennonite University offered in fall 2018 will prepare students to fill key roles in the growing fields of marketing and organizational leadership. “Marketing is the

Quick Links