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Students, Alumni and Faculty Remain Concerned About Senior Art Exhibition’s Ambiguous Future

March 30, 2015 By in Culture, News Tags: , , , 4 Comments
via kenyon.edu

via kenyon.edu

As the second half of the 2015 Senior Studio Art exhibitions open this week, the future of student exhibitions at the Gund Gallery remains unclear.

Although President Decatur announced that the class of 2016’s Studio Art majors will have their senior exhibitions in the gallery in a student-info email on Friday, the exhibitions for the class of 2017 and beyond have not been confirmed.

After an article in the March 26 issue of the Collegian announced that the gallery may discontinue exhibitions of student and faculty work, debates over the gallery’s purpose popped up in the Collegian and online.

Among these reactions was a Facebook page called “A Thousand to One: Supporting Senior Art Majors’ Use of Gund Gallery,” launched by Lucas Pastorfield-Li ’15 to garner support for a petition to ensure future student exhibitions in the space.

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Happening Now: Demonstrations on Middle Path Receive New Voice

November 4, 2014 By in Culture, News Tags: , , 12 Comments
SJ Liegner '15

SJL ’15

By now, everyone on campus is familiar with the band of demonstrators who station themselves on Middle Path, talking to students about their religious convictions regarding abortion, homosexuality, and womanhood. Their central location on campus ensures that their voice is heard by a majority of the Kenyon community. Today, students have been stopping to engage with them. Conversations have ranged from simple greetings to spirited discussions regarding the nature of the group’s assertions. One student, however, decided to engage the group in a different way.

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