{"id":61311,"date":"2013-01-29T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=61311"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:21:47","slug":"arts-crawl-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/29\/arts-crawl-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Arts Crawl 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_61312\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61312\" class=\"size-large wp-image-61312\" title=\"ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_105.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grady Hogan &#8217;13 performed in Memorial Commons with Lena and Los Morose Bros. Photograph by Michael Brady\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the Crawl got under way at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 25, a good place to ease into it was the Bobcat Den, renovated this year into a brighter space with open sightlines, beer on tap and seating at booth and hightop tables.<\/p>\n<p>Here the Arts Crawl program was literary readings &#8212; funny, confessional, intense, exploring &#8212; presented by 10 student poets and prose writers and hosted by Rob Farnsworth, a member of the English faculty and himself an esteemed poet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61313\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61313\" title=\"ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Art_Crawl_129.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alanna Prince &#8217;13 reads from her poetry in the Bobcat Den during the 2013 Arts Crawl. Photograph by Michael Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just upstairs in the former Memorial Commons, now a public venue, a stage was set up for theater, music, comedy and dance. Perhaps the best-attended Arts Crawl venue, the joint was jumping. Just within one 45-minute span, for example, the performers were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hip hop dance experts Isaiah Rice &#8217;15 and Leroy Barnes &#8217;14<\/li>\n<li>Lena and Los Morose Bros., a student band doing lively Americana music<\/li>\n<li>and dancers, led by Zoe Fahy &#8217;13, who undertook such exercises as using one part of the anatomy to trace the shape of another &#8212; for instance, using a foot to describe the whorls of the ear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For one viewer, the unadorned nature of the Memorial Commons stage &#8212; lacking lights, sets or sound system &#8212; was key to the interactive nature of the experience. &#8220;It was a little out of everyone&#8217;s comfort zone &#8212; performers were not used to being so close and vulnerable in front of the audience, and the audience not used to examining the performers so close,&#8221; said Mariya Manahova &#8217;14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The space felt very intimate, humans showing other humans what they love doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl13-Anaclerio-8201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61314\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61314\" title=\"An untitled camera obscura image by Eleanor Anaclerio '13.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl13-Anaclerio-8201-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl13-Anaclerio-8201-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl13-Anaclerio-8201-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl13-Anaclerio-8201.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An untitled camera obscura image by Eleanor Anaclerio &#8217;13.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chase Hall was one of the two poles of the Arts Crawl axis, the other being Olin Arts Center, a campus away. In between came the New Commons fireplace lounge, with an assortment of quiet music, and Coram Library&#8217;s Imaging Center, home of the Giant Photo Booth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s OK to stay in one place,&#8221; explained dance professor Carol Dilley, who coordinated the event for the Bates Arts Collaborative, &#8220;but it&#8217;s really cool if you go to multiple spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea &#8220;is not to worry about missing something, because there&#8217;s always something else around the corner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Olin Concert Hall featured diverse music, including a set by the Bates Jazz Combo, whose singers, Fiona Robins &#8217;15 and Laura Franke &#8217;15, brought a stylish and authentic feel to mid-20th century standards.<\/p>\n<p>Senior art majors, meanwhile, opened their studios. Eleanor Anaclerio borrows the dorm rooms of friends to make intriguing &#8220;camera obscura&#8221; photographs. She blacks out the windows except for the aperture that admits the ghostly outdoors image to be captured with a digital camera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61315\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61315\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61315\" title=\"ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/01\/ArtsCrawl_130125_Tomisha_173.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancer Tomisha Edwards &#8217;15 performs in Memorial Commons during Bates&#8217; 2013 Arts Crawl. Photograph by Michael Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The open studio is part of the learning process, said her studio mate, Isaac Thompson &#8217;13, who makes geometrical sculptures from steel and see-through plastic. &#8220;You&#8217;re figuring out this stuff for yourself while talking about it, too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at the Den, the readings came to a close with Katie Ailes &#8217;14 (who won a University of Edinburgh poetry slam last fall, and will compete in the BBC Scottish National Poetry Slam in April) reading her poem about an absent father:<\/p>\n<p><em>I will not ask what you do;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You are easier as wet clay,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I can mold you into an astronaut, a rock star, hell, you could be Brad Pitt,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0so I do not want to hear if you are a dentist.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Crawl got under way at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 25, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":61316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76712,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61311\/revisions\/76712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}