{"id":112973,"date":"2018-02-09T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=112973"},"modified":"2018-07-27T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:37:12","slug":"hour-by-hour-a-walk-through-the-arts-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/hour-by-hour-a-walk-through-the-arts-crawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour by hour, checking in with students during the Arts Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walk into Olin Arts Center and you hear the distinctive sound of the Steel Pan Orchestra, performing just down the hall. Downstairs, students are selling their own ceramics, and throughout the building, senior studio art majors have thrown their studio doors open. In the Concert Hall, brass and then piano and bass ring out as students dance, an animation providing the backdrop.<\/p>\n

It’s the Arts Crawl, a celebration of students’ talent and creativity in the visual, literary, and performing arts. For three hours on Feb. 2, writers, artists, dancers, and musicians in Olin and Chase Hall brought out their best as members of the Bates and surrounding communities watched, listened, and admired.<\/p>\n

Walk with us through the sights, sounds, and delights of the evening.<\/p>\n

4:02 p.m.<\/h3>\n

Among the pottery wheels in the Olin ceramics studio, students in Susan Dewsnap\u2019s classes set up tables with pieces for sale. Celia Feal-Staub \u201920 of Putney, Vt., writes her name on a sheet of paper to indicate the cups, bowls, pitchers, and mugs she has made.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find ceramics really rewarding, because it\u2019s so easy to see your improvement the longer you\u2019ve been doing it,\u201d says Feal-Staub, who spent a gap year as a potter\u2019s apprentice before coming to Bates. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more satisfying than pulling that finished pitcher or jar out of the kiln after you\u2019ve been working on it for weeks and weeks, on getting that lid to fit right or your spout to pour right.\u201d<\/p>\n

4:28 p.m.<\/h3>\n
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Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/p><\/div>\n

The Arts Crawl is in high gear. The lobby and halls are crowded as patrons explore, indulging in popcorn and hot chai along the way. Many of them cluster in a doorway, beyond which the Steel Pan Orchestra performs. The ensemble is centered around the steelpan, an instrument that originates in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

4:36 p.m.<\/h3>\n
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Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College<\/p><\/div>\n

Studio art major Durotimi Akinkugbe ’18 of London has concentrated in photography in the past, but for his senior thesis he’s moved to animation. In his studio, he shows visitors storyboards for his concept, a series of 30-second animations, made in different styles, that center around an overarching theme, perhaps time or the search for value or meaning.<\/p>\n

4:51 p.m.<\/h3>\n

As people file in and out of a studio on the first floor of Olin, Max Breschi \u201918 of Carlisle, Penn., a politics and studio art major, sits at a pottery wheel, experimenting with forms.<\/span><\/p>\n