April 17-20, 2024

Lewis & Clark adds a dance concentration, which will be led by Tiffany Mills, the college’s new director of dance.

Wolf Play, which opens March 8 on Lewis & Clark’s Main Stage, is directed by Suhaila Meera, assistant professor of theatre. With the help of a puppet, boxing moves, and wolf pack metaphors, the play explores issues of family, parenting, community, survival, and love.

Deadline: February 29, 2024

February 15, 2024 (Portland, Oregon)—Palatine Hill Review from Lewis & Clark College, has been recognized as a REALM First Class magazine for the 50th Anniversary Edition, “growing pains” by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Palatine Hill Review, “growing pains”, Volume 50 Student Editors: Jillian Jackson, AJ Di Nicola, Elizabeth Huntley, Zach Reinker, Max Allen, Burton Scheer

Four Commemorative Cover Artists: Anneka Barton, Dakota Binder, Zach Reinker, Kincaid DeBell

Faculty Advisors: Karen Gross, Mary Szybist

Staff Advisor: Amy Baskin

THE STUDENT SCRIPT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SSAC) IS NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR THE SELF-PRODUCED STUDENT PROJECTS.

Lewis & Clark’s theatre department presented Dance Extravaganza, also known as Dance X, the annual showcase of student choreography and movement, on December 8 and 9. 

Visual Arts and Technology Program Manager Tammy Jo Wilson is one of the featured artists in the exhibition Black Artists of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum. She answered a few questions about the exhibit and how she connects her life as a working artist to her job at L&C.

In Nanomaterials Chemistry, a 300-level course, students’ microscopic musings become poster-worthy poetry and art.

Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor with Term Michael Mirabile on the upcoming publication of his latest book, “Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s” (Berghahn, February 2, 2024).  

On Monday, March 11th, Michael Mirabile will discuss “Edges of Noir” with Jerry Harp, starting at 3:30pm in Miller Hall, Room 102. The event is open to the public.

Lewis & Clark’s new Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest is a space where professors, students, and visiting artists can create sound walks, auditory experiences, storytelling, musical compositions, and more!

A Student Produced Production
November 16th, 17th, 18th
7:30p
Fir Acres Theatre Black Box

The LC English Department is excited to learn that Marly Williams (BA ’14) recently published an essay collection entitled Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist(Ohio State University Press, Oct. 2023). 

Lewis & Clark is now the proud home of a 16-channel audio system nestled in the trees. Sound walks, auditory experiences, storytelling, musical compositions and more will be made available through scheduled programming soon.

The EAR (Experimental Art Research) Forest is located behind Lewis & Clark’s Fields Art Building and the Historic Bathhouse of the Estate Gardens. Nestled in the woods you will find 16 speakers mounted to trees along a path. The project has been funded by an anonymous foundation grant.

Faculty, students and visiting artists will have the opportunity to incorporate the system into classes and events, allowing for dynamic sound works and cross-disciplinary collaborations. The system is programmable to start and stop at specific times, loop as desired, set to be volume sensitive, and play up to 16 different files (one through each speaker) simultaneously.

Flow: Art and Ecology in a Changing Climate is a two-day symposium at the University of Puget Sound on November 3-4, 2023. The symposium includes an affiliated Kittredge Gallery exhibition, In the Flow: Art, Ecology, and Pedagogy.

The Lewis & Clark College English Department is pleased to announce this year’s application process for the Dixon Award. Through the efforts of two of our alumni, Hillary and Adam Dixon, this $2,500.00 award was established in 2002 by the Dixon Family Foundation. It is given to one junior English major each year.

To foster a greater sense of belonging among first-year students, L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health is partnering with Write Around Portland to offer a series of writing workshops.

Kaleidoscope
James W. Rogers Concert
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
7:30pm, Agnes Flanagan Chapel

Please save the dates, spread the word, and join the LC English Department in welcoming these four fine writers to our 2023-24 Visiting Writing Series. Bios and links to more author information below.

All four events will be held in the Frank Manor House, Armstrong Lounge, at 6pm.

Professional actors, in collaboration with faculty and students from Lewis & Clark, presented I Think of You, a variation on the final theatre project of students in the spring Inside-out Prison Exchange course.

The LC English Department is excited to learn that Creative Writing Professor Pauls Toutonghi’s latest novel, The Refugee Ocean (Simon & Schuster, October 10, 2023) has been selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick of the Month!
Per B&N, “With two plots that jump around time and place, and characters that are immediate and real, The Refugee Ocean is as masterfully told as it is emotionally satisfying. It grapples with complex topics that will leave the reader deep in thought, contemplating long after that final page.”

Pauls will also be in conversation with Jon Raymond on Sunday, October 15th at Powell’s City of Books.

The 2022 edition of the Lewis & Clark Literary Review, now called the Palatine Hill Review, earned the Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Program Directors’ Prize for Content.

Monday, October 9th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day! How will you engage with the community and reflect?

Suhaila Meera is an Assistant Professor of Theatre. In addition to her work as a director and dramaturg, Meera has researched statelessness and the performance of childhood, which examines theatrical and cinematic portraits of young people navigating borders in South Asia and the Middle East.

Nicole Seisler, Assistant Professor of Ceramics, has exhibited widely and is the founder and director of the A-B Projects, a space for exhibitions and critical dialogue that expand and redefine the field of ceramics.

Waylon Lenk BA ’08, a Shakespeare scholar and theatre artist, will join the college as its first Native Scholar-Artist in Residence this fall. Lenk will give a talk at New Student Orientation and direct the theatre department’s fall production of Henry IV, Part 1.

Join the LC Theatre department for a spectacular season of Theatre and Dance!