Arts at Denison

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Everywhere you go, there's something happening. If you love music theater, you can do that every semester. You can come to a creative writing class and start writing the Department of Theater. People like how Holbrook, Michael Eisner, Jose Rivera, Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner 600 students every semester participate in music course or ensemble. We have over 20 ensembles for students to choose from, so any kind of interest that you have you could participate in. So I definitely knew I wanted a school of really good art department. No other colleges have anything comparable to Bryant. This very supportive environment that encourages you to experiment that encourages you'd push your ideas further. I can truly explore who I am as an artist, but also continued to push the envelope and see what else I could create. I was a communication major, but eventually I found out. I've never been so happy doing something that I like. Every day, even though it's so much work or get stressful or hard, it's still fun off a cappella here at Denison is so much fun we have now become a knock a family, Um, all four of us. There is so much happening with the arts here, Dennison, and it's great as the students get to be involved, no matter that they're a minor, a major or simply have an interest. You congee just want to come and dance and your feet audition. So we produce on our main stage for fully realized pieces of theater every year. There are extraordinary opportunities for students to create their own work all the time in organizations like the Dennison Independent Theater Association, the women's performance group Burpees CD theatrical company, I came in already loving musical theater. Since I've come here, I've also found some new interests in designing. I've realized I love doing, directing and writing as well. It's a distinction that Dennison has young, smart artists who are theater makers who could do the whole thing. I have all these opportunities to do whatever I want to do and also grow as a musician, even though I want to be a psychologist. I had a student who sang the lead in Les Miserables, and he at the time was a biology major and was taking his M Cats. He's a evangel player, but he's also going on trips to the Bahamas and the geology department. It's something that we feel strongly about wanting to keep this open to students from across the whole campus. People from all different disciplines come together, and I think that's what makes it so strong, because we have people coming coming from all these different backgrounds. So everyone brings something slightly different. The fact that we have such a diverse group singing gospel music is just awesome. One of the things that's critical to study music is having one on one private lessons, and not all schools of Dennis and size are able to really commit to it like Dennison has. We'll have students that we see for four or five hours a week every week for four years. So it becomes a four year mentorship very, very close relationship that we're able to develop that connection with the faculty. It really amazes me how passionate they are about what we're interested in, what we're passionate about when you look at what they have done and they're here teaching me little old me like I I think that that's something that is just incredible. They're not just, you know, teaching in the classroom, but they're also living in. This provides an exceptional opportunity for people to see living working artists and to work with them one on one. Were lucky, frankly that it has so many educational and cultural institutions you actually do have the chance to experience all of it. Many places that are rural areas don't have that opportunity. Our Billy takes students there and bring artists here, and these experiences of exchange really enrich our program in huge ways. Bail Siri's is a wonderful gift to Dennison to bring concerts and musicians and artists from all over the world and make it accessible and free to all students. It's just amazing experience to have them perform for us, but also for them to come to our classes to interact with students in different fields of study. Back Visiting writer Siri's brings at least 6 to 8 writers every semester to campus, and they give readings but also meet with students one on one. We ask for visiting artists to do individual studio critics with our students way now bring a playwright to campus for a full semester residency. Every other year, the entire campus is buzzing with people looking to connect and collaborate poetry and music and visual art and dance any combination you can think of all working in the interconnected ways, breaking down boundaries and creating new ways off making art.