“Two Buoys”
Inspirational, uplifting and written by Peter Mills â95, âTwo Buoysâ is performed by Prospect Theatre Company, which includes Princeton alumni Sarah Corey â92, Tira Harpaz â74, David Kessler â99, Katie Pickett â00, Tony Valles â97 and Simone Zamore â99.
âWe Roarâ podcast features Princetoniansâ voices on the COVID-19 pandemic
Princeton University has launched a new podcast series to share the personal stories and expertise of students, faculty, staff and alumni during the COVID-19 pandemic. The âWe Roarâ podcast will offer short meditations by a wide range of Princetonians as they continue their work and daily lives through one of the watershed moments of our time.
In one of four episodes released today, President Christopher L. Eisgruber describes the negotiations behind the Universityâs decision to send students home for the remainder of the semester. âIâm confident that by getting our students off the campus we were able to keep the infection numbers in our community small,â he said. âIt was a difficult day that I will never forget.â
The other premiere guests on âWe Roarâ are Jeremy Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and director of the Global History Lab, a pioneer in distance education whose work has taken on a new relevance; Kara Amoratis, associate director of International Travel Safety and Security, who describes how she evacuated students from far-flung corners of the globe, despite extraordinary challenges; and Kirsten Traudt, Class of 2020, whose classics studies have prepared her to take âthe long view of history.â
Future guests include former U.S. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, Class of 1974; Chitra Parikh, Class of 2021, University Student Government president; Rebecca Lazier, a senior lecturer in dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts and acting director of the Program in Dance; Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; and many more.
âWe Roarâ is available on Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes), Spotify and other podcast platforms. New episodes will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Master Class: Get Your Art Fix in a Double Dose of Lecture and Drawing, Virtually
Unleash your inner artist and enjoy an inside peek of the Princeton University Art Museum all in one night. The art museumâs popular Late Thursday programming has gone virtual to allow for social distancing with the current coronavirus challenge, but added a new element â an online drawing class to enhance the experience.
The museum is providing online academic and community-based programming and has teamed up with the Arts Council of Princeton to have artist Barbara DiLorenzo conduct an online drawing class inspired by the eveningâs program.
On April 16, Associate Curator of Asian Art Zoe Kwok *13 gave an hour-long slide show presentation of the history of Asian art at the museum â part history lesson and part private tour of the museumâs treasures â to some 500 people who joined virtually. Listeners learned, for example, that the museumâs circa 1250 devotional statue of Guanyin shows the Buddhist deity in the royal ease pose, a stance that comes from Indian dance. Kwokâs remarks were followed by a Q&A, with questions chosen from more than 70 that were submitted.
Later, DiLorenzoâs hour-long drawing demonstration used the museumâs âThe Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu,â a circa 1287 handscroll by Zhao Mengfu, for a master class in composition, contrast, and artist tools. Participants could draw with the artist or watch as her pencil skipped around paper creating her own âmindscapeâ of a plein air moment sitting in nature.
The Asian art offering was the launch of the online events, with a 5:30 p.m. lecture followed by a drawing class related to the lecture topic. Together, these Thursday programs are designed for a broad spectrum of audiences including students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members and art lovers at large.
The next program will be Wednesday, April 22 (to avoid conflict with Ramadan), on the museumâs exhibition âLIFE Magazineâs Photojournalism and the American Century,â featuring a roundtable with Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History; Thomas Y. Levin, associate professor of German; and Katherine Hill Reischl, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures; and the prize-winning documentary photographer Susan Meiselas. They will discuss how Life magazine used photographs in its weekly publication, from 1936 to 1972, as a way to establish its view of the world as a first draft of history. There will be a drawing class afterward focusing on Life photography as its inspiration.
Learn more about the Life magazine program and about the art museum.