Art & Politics

Sample of Affiliated Courses

CSI-0104-1: Changemaking in Urgent Times: Art and Politics with Jina Fast and javiera Benavente

HACU-0104-1: Experimental 2D Animation with Sarah E Jenkins

HACU-0106-1: Introduction to Narrative Design: Story, Systems, and Meaning in Games with Jess Erion

HACU-0247-1: Hampshire College Zine Collection: practicum and research workshop with Michelle Hardesty

IA-0208-1: Making Comics & Graphic Novels: A Generative Workshop with Caoimhe Harlock

For more courses and information about them, check out The Hub. 

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

"These Are the Times to Grow Our Souls," chapter 1 in The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige

One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

"The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western 'Eddington'" with David Remnick

Spring 2024 

Indie Film Scoring Workshop with Eliza Gelinas 

Wednesday, April 24th / 4:00 - 6:00 pm / Jerome Liebling Center Room 120

The 2-hour film-scoring workshop will be open to the greater Hampshire community. It will kick off with a screening of the short film 'Will-O-The-Wisp', Eliza’s most recent film score, with an introduction from the director, Emily Gelinas. Attendees will then learn about the process of scoring a small-budget film from start to finish, while also exploring the history and aesthetic of classic film scoring techniques. The workshop will focus on how to score an indie film, covering topics such as working with a creative team, establishing musical ideas, post-production, networking, negotiating contracts, and more. Following the presentation, there will be a Q&A period. No prior scoring background is necessary; this workshop is designed to benefit musicians and anyone interested in filmmaking. For more information, contact Eliza Gelinas

eagLO@hampshire.edu

Book Bans: A Red Hot Roundtable

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 / 4:00 - 5:30 pm / Library, 1st Floor

Join us for a lively discussion about challenged books and contemporary struggles for intellectual freedom. The panel includes:

Stephanie (Cole) Adams, Esq (attorney and 91F alum), Martin Garnar (Director of the Library, Amherst College), Tricia London (Librarian, Abington Public Schools), Acadia Manley (Hampshire College student 23F and Abington Public Schools alum)

This event is generously sponsored by Five College Libraries Professional Development Committee, Hampshire College Learning Collaborative Network, Hampshire College Dean of Humanities and Arts, and Harold F. Johnson Library. Open to all Five College community members and light refreshments will be served. 

For more information contact: Natane Halasz, nhLO@hampshire.edu 

Analogue Sine Wave Generation

Thursday, February 22 / 4:00 pm / Harold F. Johnson Library, Room B1

Dan Warner returns to bring his expertise and experience to sharing the ability to generate electronic waveforms with the analog synthesizers in the Library media Labs. Analog synthesizers produce unique sound colors and musical shapes when the various modules are connected. We will learn some of the basic connections, or "patches," in this session.

John Bruner

jdbLO@hampshire.edu

These students received seed funding from the Learning Collaboratives during the Fall 2023—Spring 2024 school year. Division noted was for that year. 

Miniature TV

Harry Cooke | Div II

The goal of Harry’s project is to make a miniature TV, from parts such as a raspberry pi, and assemble it for his electronics class. The aim is to play older tv shows with older commercial breaks too, preserving media. Now, media is abundantly pulled from the internet or streaming services. It simply disappears, and Harry values capturing and preserving older shows, movies, and even their commercials to preserve the experiences with which he grew up, those which have faded away, as televisions become less prevalent/ necessary.

Man Up: Exploring the Nuance of “Toxic” Online Communities 

Cassidy Walker | Div III

Cassidy’s project explores "toxic" online communities through an empathy-based lens. She is conducting a series of interviews (19 so far) and photographing as many interviewees as possible. The interviews are designed to help Cassidy (and future viewers) understand whypeople might join these communities and what the benefits and drawbacks are, rather than villainizing their members.

A Breath Worth Fighting For (Thoughts on Pneuma: 2nd Iteration)

Mére Wilson | Div II

Mére is creating a performance piece for Hampshire College’s Winter Concert. This performance explores Mére’s Afro-Indigenous identity and the story of the Igbo Landing, a well-known tale of a mass suicide of slaves in Georgia that is often used to contemplate freedom, sacrifice, and home. Through performance, Mére is processing what/where home is to tem, as well as how breath exists in the Black/Indigenous body through generational trauma and the politics of breath.

What's In My Brain? 

Seoyoung Yoon | Div II

For Seoyoung’s final project of their Subject Archives class, they plan to make an installation art, an igloo that is shaped like their neurodivergent brain. Having lived half in Korea and half in the other five countries, Seoyoung’s project speaks to how they were constantly battling with the perceptions of others on where their “weirdness” came from. Now that they know that they are neurodivergent (AuDHD), Seoyoung embraces their neurodiversity with their diverse, cultural backgrounds and advocates for their own, personal “weirdness”. Through this project, they hope to appreciate the inner self, without being too focused on other people's reactions.

Performance Art: Wooden Poetry, Clay Worlds

Karim Barrett | Div I

How can art and creative practices engage trauma? As Fred Motem says in reference to a lyric from Bob Marley, "in a kind of echo of Bob Marley's question, about whether blackness could be loved", Karim really wonders daily through these micro-aggressions and political racial hostilities, if this indeed is a possibility. Karim’s performance art in wood, poetry, and clay explores these themes, questions, and felt realities.

Puppetry History and Sandglass Theater 

Graham Frechette | Div II

Graham is studying Sandglass Theater in Putney, Vermont. The theater and its community have a long history of storytelling, specifically from their experiences. They have regular shows. Graham has been able to attend these, and there are more to come. Going to their performances is like going to a conference, and LC funds allow Graham to continue researching and going to such innovative performances.

Coordinators

rl Goldberg, rlgFC@hampshire.edu, Assistant Professor of Queer Studies

Corrinne Owens, cto24@hampshire.edu