Mollie Oblinger, associate professor of art, has a solo exhibit at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, running through Feb. 10. About her mixed media art exhibit, Oblinger says, “Abstraction starts in observation. … Examinations of subtle overlooked actions, whether teeming underfoot or concealed by modern society, are at the center of my work. In the […]
The Ripon College Department of Music will present its annual Holiday Concert on Sunday, Dec. 13. The program will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. Selections include: Choral Union: Christus Natus Est, by the living British composer Cecilia McDowall. […]
The Ripon College Orchestra will perform a free concert on Sunday, Dec. 6, on the College campus. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The program will include “Overture to Coriolanus,” Opus 62, by Beethoven; “Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus,’ ’” by Ralph Vaughan […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers will present a concert Friday, Nov. 20. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend. The conductor is John C. Hughes, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities. Selections on […]
Practical Love Songs, a public workshop with composer-in-residence Dale Trumbore and mezzo-soprano JaneMarie Erickson ’16 of Redgranite, Wisconsin, will begin at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20. The workshop will be presented in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. Erickson, a senior music and theatre major, will perform […]
A unique collaboration between Ripon College student vocalists, instrumentalists and researchers, as well as Ripon area community members and organizations, will culminate in a concert and event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center […]
Composer-in-residence Dale Trumbore will discuss her experiences as a female in the male-dominated field of music composition Thursday, Nov. 19, at Ripon College. “Music and Gender” will begin at 3 p.m. in Room 147, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. All are welcome to attend. Professor of Music Sarah Kraaz will be the moderator. Trumbore, […]
Poet Brenda Cárdenas will give a reading of her work Wednesday, Nov. 18, on the Ripon College campus. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Lane Library. Books will be available for purchase, and all are welcome to attend. Cárdenas is the author of Boomerang (Bilingual Review Press, 2009) and the chapbooks Bread of […]
A revival of the great Broadway classic musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will be presented by the Ripon College music and theatre departments Nov. 11 through 14. Performances will be at 7:30 each evening in the Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. Tickets are […]
Work by artist David Giffey will be exhibited Nov. 6 through Dec. 6 in Caestecker Gallery, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. The artist will talk in the lobby at 7 p.m. on Nov. 6. A reception will follow in the gallery. Giffey grew up on a dairy farm in […]
The internationally acclaimed Rose Ensemble will perform at Ripon College Oct. 30 as part of the Chamber Music & Jazz at Ripon Series. Now in its 20th performance season, The Rose Ensemble performs collections of lesser-known historical songs to retell different parts of history. “Each performance illuminates centuries of rarely heard repertoire, bringing to modern […]
Pianist Sally Pinkas will perform at Ripon College, Friday, Oct. 9, as part of the Chamber Music & Jazz at Ripon series. The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Her program will include “Estampes,” by Claude Debussy; “Music from Romantic Manila,” s set of pieces […]
Dr. Tim Schaid, executive director of Wisconsin School Music Association, Wisconsin Music Educators Association and Wisconsin Foundation for School Music since July 2012, will speak at 2:15 p.m. Friday in Choir Room 156, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. All are welcome to attend and learn about lifelong involvement in music. Schaid holds a bachelor […]
Steven Dietz’s play “Private Eyes,” a comic mystery of passion, deceit and jealousy, will open the Ripon College Theatre Department’s 2015-16 season Sept. 30 through Oct. 3. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the College’s campus. Tickets are free, but reservations are recommended by calling […]
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra returns to Ripon College Sunday, Sept. 27, for its 43rd annual appearance on campus. Presented each year as part of the College’s Caestecker Fine Arts Series, admission to this year’s performance will be free as a thank-you to the greater Ripon community for its continued support of the College’s musical programming. […]
“I’ve loved acting since I was young,” says Amanda Finn ’14 of Madison, Wisconsin. “It was my first love.” At Ripon, Finn majored in theatre, English and film/media studies. As a sophomore, she was encouraged by Professor of Theatre Bob Amsden to participate in the O’Neill Critics Institute within the Kennedy Center American College Theatre […]
Scott Strazzante, a 1986 graduate of Ripon College, will have his work on display Sept. 11 to Oct. 11 in Caestecker Gallery, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the college campus. Strazzante is a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and previously worked for the Chicago Tribune and other news sources. His book Common […]
A serendipitous disappointment at Ripon College led to a career choice for Brandi Gaspard Mans ’10 of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mans got into theatre in high school in Anoka, Minnesota, because some of her friends were doing it. “The theatre bug bit me,” she says, and she received a theatre scholarship to attend Ripon College. However, […]
Mollie Oblinger, associate professor of art, and Rafael Salas, associate professor of art, have work included in a group exhibit through Sept. 5 at the Thelma in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Oblinger also has work in a group show at the Angela Meleca Gallery through Sept. 3 in Columbus, Ohio; and her work will be […]
From the Kohler Foundation’s Gifts of Art program, Ripon College has received works by three artists for its permanent collection: Jean Stamsta, Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath. The Kohler Foundation has a legacy of supporting the arts and education that reaches back to the 1940s. Much of the work that the foundation does benefits the […]
Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas had two reviews published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in July. The reviews address two different displays on the Wisconsin Museum of Art in West Bend, Wisconsin. One is Nathaniel Stern’s “Giverny of the Midwest,” a series of photographic scans printed on watercolor paper. The second is “Wilde’s […]