This fall offered plenty of interesting album releases, so narrowing this list down to 12 was not easy. I’ve chosen to focus on well-known artists from a variety of genres in an attempt to highlight the best albums released this fall.
Read moreAutomaton
She unlocks herself now,
far from the madding crowd.
It looks like hair let down
or a moth exiting its cocoon
or a great lady thrusting herself through a pair of double doors.
Read moreCovenant's Art Club Hosts 12 Hour Draw-In
On Friday, November 10, from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m., if you wandered into the Lucas Art Workshop you would have entered a party. Music was playing and cool people were hanging out and eating snacks, but these people weren’t having a rave session. They were drawing.
Read moreHarrison Center for the Arts: Our 48 Hour Residency
On Thursday, November 3, Caleb Smith and I drove to The Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis, Indiana for their 48-Hour Residency. Our job? To explore Indianapolis and make art in, well, 48 hours.
Read moreMan of La Mancha: Raising Hard Questions
Covenant’s theater and music departments have come together to create a memorable rendition of the classic tale of Don Quixote with their performance of Man of La Mancha. But the production may raise more questions than it answers.
Read moreSculpture Fields at Montague Park
Located on the southside of Chattanooga, Sculpture Fields at Montague Park exists as an open conversation between art and nature. Approximately two dozen installations of different shapes and sizes occupy this seemingly stray and lonely field. A little off the beaten path, many people might not usually venture towards this park, centered in an industrial part of town.
Read moreI Highly Recommend It
There are certain dark and mournful narratives within the human experience that can only be told one way. The mode of storytelling must match the weight of its subject matter.The recent film adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic novel It does this exceptionally well.
Read moreKresge Art Exhibit
“With photography, you start with the chaotic world around you,” began Andrew O’Brien in his presentation on his art show titled Curtain Wall. O’Brien’s work is currently on display in the Kresge Library art gallery, and on the evening of October 25, he discussed the ideas and interests that drove him to take these photos.
Read moreThere's no Need to Understand
Art, whether written, visual, musical, or in any other form, is suffering of neglect. We are like parents who, when our child takes its first steps, says, “Whew! *smacks child on back* another milestone, now, time to work on running *cracks whip*!” without ever appreciating those life-affirming first steps. To translate this to an artistic situation: someone journeys to a museum to see a Mark Rothko painting and upon seeing the Rothko and observing it for less than fifteen seconds says, “I saw the Rothko *checks mental mark* now, let’s see, any Pollocks here?”
Read moreChapel Department Rents Student Art
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Kathryn Wieldraayer, the Chapel Department’s Administrative Assistant and Covenant Alumnus, to hear about the department’s new practice of renting student art for their office space.
Read moreSahara
Regarding Wes Anderson
After more than two years without a full-length feature from director Wes Anderson, fans of Anderson's work were delighted to see the recent release of a trailer for Anderson's upcoming project, Isle of Dogs.
Read moreI Don't Recommend It
Director Andy Muschietti’s recently cinematized horror flick It, (based on Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel), depicts a group of kids endeavoring to destroy a shapeshifting demon clown. The problem? The film chokes on its own theme.
Read moreTrip to the High: Art Students Travel to Atlanta Art Museum
On Tuesday, October 10, Covenant’s art department took a busload of students (of which I was honored to be a part) on a field trip to Atlanta to visit the museum and see examples of the art they were discussing in class.
Read moreSt. Elmo's Inaugural Incline Art Crawl
On October 14 and 15, while Covenant students enjoyed a well-earned Fall Break, St. Elmo hosted the first ever Incline Art Crawl. The Art Crawl, free to the public, is a pop-up art gallery along the lower portion of the Incline Railway. With Lookout Mountain as a backdrop, the artwork is surrounded by beautiful October foliage, making the event all the more enjoyable.
Read moreCrystal Castles: A Show to Remember
The night the rest of Covenant College was watching Josh Garrels in the chapel, me and three of my friends dressed in our grungiest black outfits and drove to Nashville to see Crystal Castles perform on their continuous tour. Go ahead, you can call us rebels.
Read moreCan I Get a Witness?
Heavy, hard, black, and twisted
are the pain and sorrow in this life.
All cannot possibly be sifted,
O Lord come and end the sting of strife.
Read moreReflections on Mountain Affair
This year’s Mountain Affair, as highly anticipated as ever, consisted of eleven musical acts and one spoken word performance. The big winner of the night was Sam Miller who closed the show with his solo violin act where he dazzled the crowd with his incredible talent.
Read moreA Review of Consumption
The theater department has once again brought a somber, thought-provoking play to Covenant’s stage with their recent production of Consumption by Courtney Baron.In the span of an hour and fifteen minutes, four characters in four different parts of the country are united in a meditative dream state as they each suffer the final stages of consumption (now called tuberculosis) together.
Read moreArt Professor Presents Sabbatical Work
I spend a lot of time thinking about places, but I also go places,” began Professor Jeffrey Morton on the evening of Wednesday, October 11, presenting the product of his sabbatical work. The pieces displayed in the Lucas Art Workshop are only a small representation of an almost ten-year-long project entitled “Thinking of a Place: Finding Home in the Wilderness.”
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