Socially Loaded Art
Bailey Triggs
Issue date: 3/10/03 Section: Arts
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Last Thursday, we were stuck. When the weather decided to renege on its promise of spring by dropping nearly nine inches of snow, we found ourselves stuck in our rooms making microwave Easy Mac in favor of trying to slip and fall our way to Mather for dinner. While we sat in our rooms praying school to be cancelled the next morning, a small group of us managed to un-stick ourselves from the warming glow of the television set and ventured off campus.
We ventured all the way to the Charter Oak Cultural Center to attend the arts event that night which featured a reading by Trinity visiting faculty Margaret Randall, the premiere of Starting Over, a performance piece by the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble. Also opening was the exhibit "Visions of a New World" dedicated to the late Maureen McElhone featuring her art along with the art of her mother, Judy McElhone, her sister, Kara, and her students from the Hartford Magnet Middle School and Parkville Community School.
While the premiere of Starting Over was the focal point of the evening, the reading by Margaret Randall and the "Visions of a New World" were perfect compliments to the ideas brought forth in the performance piece. Randall read a "heavily revised" version of the essay she contributed to the collection To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11.
In her piece, she described the varied abroad experiences as an American and how she felt hesitant to admit her American heritage to inquiring foreigners. She examined the American phenomenon of the altruistic individual in contrast with the selfish American collective.
At the end of her essay, she pointed to the political ignorance of the American public as the root of such incongruous behavior. Randall also read three poems that had been inspired by the recent world events.
After Randall's reading, the audience was directed to go to the gallery portion of the Charter Oak Cultural Center to view the exhibit "Visions of A New World." The children of the Hartford Magnet Middle School and the Parkville Community School who participated in this exhibit were asked to create their vision of the new world through their artwork.
We ventured all the way to the Charter Oak Cultural Center to attend the arts event that night which featured a reading by Trinity visiting faculty Margaret Randall, the premiere of Starting Over, a performance piece by the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble. Also opening was the exhibit "Visions of a New World" dedicated to the late Maureen McElhone featuring her art along with the art of her mother, Judy McElhone, her sister, Kara, and her students from the Hartford Magnet Middle School and Parkville Community School.
While the premiere of Starting Over was the focal point of the evening, the reading by Margaret Randall and the "Visions of a New World" were perfect compliments to the ideas brought forth in the performance piece. Randall read a "heavily revised" version of the essay she contributed to the collection To Mend the World: Women Reflect on 9/11.
In her piece, she described the varied abroad experiences as an American and how she felt hesitant to admit her American heritage to inquiring foreigners. She examined the American phenomenon of the altruistic individual in contrast with the selfish American collective.
At the end of her essay, she pointed to the political ignorance of the American public as the root of such incongruous behavior. Randall also read three poems that had been inspired by the recent world events.
After Randall's reading, the audience was directed to go to the gallery portion of the Charter Oak Cultural Center to view the exhibit "Visions of A New World." The children of the Hartford Magnet Middle School and the Parkville Community School who participated in this exhibit were asked to create their vision of the new world through their artwork.
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