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Craig Williams speaks on the power of love

Abigail Wharton October 10, 2017

Trinity University's second Lennox Seminar lecture took place Monday, Oct. 2, in the Fiesta Room from Craig Williams, professor of classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Williams' work...

Illustration Yessenia Lopez

“˜Nightmare Before Christmas’ exhibit haunts the McNay

Abigail Wharton October 3, 2017

This holiday season, the McNay Art Museum gives us all a chance to take a turn down memory lane with an immersive installation of original sets, character puppets and sculpture pieces used in the production...

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Stieren Arts Enrichment series brings content creators to campus

Abigail Wharton October 3, 2017

October is a notoriously busy time for Trinity students, but two upcoming guest speakers are definitely worth making time for this month. Graphic novelist Dylan Meconis and music critic Scott Cantrell...

Photo by Savannah Clarke

Top Naach takes things up a notch

Abigail Wharton September 28, 2017

Last Tuesday and Thursday were full of loud music and new choreography for those auditioning to join this year's Bollywood dance team, Top Naach. An extension of South Asian Student Association (SASA),...

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San Antonio celebrates Chuck Ramirez

Abigail Wharton September 27, 2017

Chuck Ramirez's name has been familiar to San Antonio for decades but lately his name is inescapable in the San Antonio art scene. Two retrospective exhibitions have opened this month in the McNay and...

illustration by Yessenia Lopez

Deconstructing the binary: The problem with gendered clothing

Abigail Wharton September 21, 2017

Cut, color, size and style are just a few things that separate men from women in almost every department store and online shopping platform known today. While this may never directly impact your personal...

art by Ruth Buentello
photo by Abigail Wharton

Students meet the San Antonio artists bringing life to Latinx stories

Abigail Wharton September 19, 2017

Last Tuesday, students taking the Issues in Contemporary Arts course met with San Antonio-based painter Ana Fernandez and explored a joint exhibition curated at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Brazos...

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What you need to know about this year’s Lennox Seminar

Abigail Wharton September 13, 2017

This Tuesday marks the beginning of Trinity's 2017 Lennox Seminar Series entitled Love, Art, and Power in the Roman Empire. Through November, lecturers from different universities will speak on topics...

Illustration by Andrea Nebhut

Making Art Keeps You Healthy

Abigail Wharton September 7, 2017

With today's advances in technology and neurological research, we can say with a great deal of confidence that the structure of your brain changes with the influences of the surrounding environment. The...

Illustration by Andrea Nebhut

Navigating pathways: A guide for the creative expression requirement

Abigail Wharton September 7, 2017

A large portion of Trinity's common curriculum system is devoted to something we call Approaches to Creation and Analysis. This section is thoroughly defined on our school's website: "In order to master...

illustration by Andrea Nebhut

World Heritage Festival to remember San Antonio missions and history

Abigail Wharton August 31, 2017

Starting on September 6, the city will be buzzing with the annual World Heritage Festival, a week of programming designed to celebrate the San Antonio Missions and raise funds for the nonprofits that preserve...

Junior Katie Sibley appreciates modernist photography. photo by Amani Canada

Exhibition highlights Mexican contributions to modernist photography

Abigail Wharton August 29, 2017

The early 1920s saw a drastic change in the way the world perceived photographs. The transition from commercial product to work of art was nurtured by many famous names, but the San Antonio Museum of Art's...

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