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We Need to Talk: Repairing our Social Fabric One Creative Conversation at a Time with Philippa Pham Hughes

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September 12th, 2024
Tell us what you envision for a flourishing Davidson! In a deeply polarized country, one of the greatest and hardest acts of civic engagement is talking to people who don’t share our beliefs. But that’s exactly what we need to do if we want to solve the social and political problems our country faces and if we want to create a society in which everyone flourishes. Strengthening our social bonds happens when we begin to care about each other again, when we are in relationship with one another. That begins with a conversation, so the Center for Civic Engagement and...
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Seen on Campus: Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9

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April 29th, 2024

Image of Vivian Beer's sculpture Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9.
Vivian Beer (American, b. 1977)Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, 2017Stainless steel, steel and automotive finishGift of Joseph P. Logan '77 My first reaction when I spotted this work was surprise: amidst the green, wooded landscape is an unnatural pop of shiny red. My logical, order-based brain immediately noticed this eye-catching mystery and alerted me that something was quite obviously different here. In fact, that ‘difference’ is Vivian Beer’s Machined Nature: Anchored Candy no. 9, and its odd-one-out nature seems to be, in itself, the whole point.  A sculptor and furniture designer from Bar Harbor, ME, Vivian Beer (b. 1977)...
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Joe Claire ’24 |

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April 29th, 2024
On view: April 26- May 1, 2024 Joe Claire was born in Washington, D.C. in 2002. He began experimenting with digital art and photography in high school and now focuses on creating semi-representational photographs and prints focused on entropy and degradation of images from the moment of their inception. He is also passionate about the visual art accompanying the music world and is co-president of Davidson’s student radio. He is a senior studio art major and digital studies minor. He received Davidson’s SPIKE! Grant in 2021 to print a book of documentary photographs taken at his grandparents’ historic plant nursery...
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Julia Matthiesen ’24 | Symbiosis

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April 22nd, 2024
On View: April 19-24, 2024 Julia Matthiesen was born in New York, and is receiving a BA of Studio Art with a minor in Data Science. She is the inaugural recipient of the Malú Alvarez Visual Arts Scholarship. In 2022, she studied abroad in Florence, Italy and was highly influenced by both the Classical Italian Renaissance Art she saw there and the graffiti and street art she saw abroad in Europe and at home in New York City. At Davidson College, she is involved in Libertas Arts and Literary Student Magazine as a Design Editor and volunteers at Planned Parenthoods...
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Sarah Green ’24 | I don’t want to be queer, I want to be pretty

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April 22nd, 2024
On View: April 12-16, 2024 Reception: April 12th, 4:30-5:00pm Sarah Green is a double major in Biology and Studio Art on the Pre-Med track from Anniston, Alabama. She is a Belk Scholar and the recipient of the Douglas Houchens Studio Art Award. In Fall 2022 she studied art history in Vienna, Austria. Green was a guest services volunteer intern in the Emergency Department at Charlotte Presbyterian Hospital. She also worked at Pediatric Advanced Therapy, a physical and behavioral therapy office for children. She has most recently worked as the graphic design and social media intern for The Pauline Tea Bar...
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