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Category: Fine & Performing Arts

Silent Sky runs March 6-14 at EWU Theatre

Silent Sky with dates March 6-14

SILENT SKY By: Lauren Gunderson Directed by: Sara Goff Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer ahead of her time. It is 1900 and Henrietta has the opportunity to work at Harvard University as a human computer, one of Edward Pickering’s “harem,” mapping the stars but receiving no scientific credit. Silent Sky is the poignant tale of

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EWU Theatre 2019-2020 Season

Silent Sky with dates March 6-14

Winter Quarter 2020 | Mar. 6-14 “Silent Sky” by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Sara Goff “When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer

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German Week 2019 – Wunderbar Together: The Women of Bauhaus

Student looks at the Women of the Bauhaus exhibit in the JFK Library.

Bauhaus Exhibition in the JFK Library. Included pieces were written by German students and artwork created and curated by students in the Art Department. Wunderbar together For the second time in the past two years, the German program at EWU was awarded a grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to hold

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Dr. Graves Inducted into Steinway & Sons Hall of Fame

Keyboard of a Steinway & Sons piano

“When I took the position here at EWU in 2003, I was thrilled to come back as an Alum to work with the students here, knowing that I might be able to inspire other young artists to develop their talents and see where it might take them as it has for me.” Since Jody Graves

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Music Chair Wins Teaching Award in Entrepreneurship

Abstract collage of colors and written music

In September, Jonathan Middleton, Music Department Chair and Composition Professor, and EWU Information Systems and Business Analytics lecturer, Jeff Culver, attended the Experiential Classroom—a three-day clinic held at the University of Tampa designed to help attendees develop creative ways to teach business entrepreneurship. One of the workshops included a competition where fifteen teams had two

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Music Dept Hosts Smithsonian Folkways World Music Course

Drummers sit and perform in a circle

EWU’s Music Department held its first annual Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course on the Cheney campus last summer. Music educators from Washington and New York states explored a wide variety of world culture musics, including Hawaiian, steel drums, Klezmer, Mandingue percussion, Zimbabwe percussion, world dance, Salish drum and song, and Appalachian folk music taught

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Music Department Welcomes New Major

Sound Design equipment

Music Technology and Entrepreneurship Major – Mixing Music, Engineering and Design, and Entrepreneurship The Eastern Washington University Music Department is excited to announce that they are offering a B.A. in Music Technology and Entrepreneurship this fall. The degree is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs, performers, songwriters,

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CALE 2019 Awards Ceremony

CALE Awards

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year, each of CALE’s seven departments chooses a student to receive the Frances B. Huston Medallion. This award recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence with a 3.75 or higher GPA and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in the community. These are the Huston

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CALE Highlights

Students walk past Patterson Hall

Summer 2019 The College of Arts, Letters and Education is always excited to share some of the successes of those affiliated with the college, including students, faculty, staff and alumni. Below are just some of those amazing accomplishments. Art Student: Destiny Vaught will be interning at Entity magazine in Los Angeles for a month this

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Visiting Artist Matt Lipps comes to EWU

April 8, 2019

Visiting Artist Matt Lipps comes to EWU

Los Angeles artist Matt Lipps will be on campus at noon on Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019, in the Art Building Auditorium (room 116) to talk about his work. Matt Lipps has collected photographs from both high and low sources like Time and Life magazines, and art history books since childhood. With these images, Lipps builds three-dimensional collages

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