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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Chris Bishop traces his love of art to grade school when he began drawing cartoons and copying images out of newspapers.
With the coronavirus pandemic bringing live, in-person events to a halt, performers across the world have gotten creative in an effort to connect with audiences. Jason Ostrowski, '88, has met the challenge by creating a monthly live-streaming variety show on Facebook.
The annual Summer Music Festival will be offered online at Fredonia, with free classes and lessons for middle and high school band students on July 1 and 2.
Two School of Music faculty members have been named, along with several Fredonia alumni, among the 216 quarterfinalists and Legacy applicants for the 2021 Music Educator Award™ presented by the Recording Academy® and GRAMMY Museum.®
The Fredonia School of Music has announced 2020 student awards/scholarships, made possible through endowments established with the Fredonia College Foundation.
Not everyone can boast to appearing, side-by-side, with their childhood idol, but Department of Communication Professor Mike Igoe can. That’s him standing next to, well, Popeye. Not in real life, of course, but in a black and white cartoon sketch created by Fredonia graduate Ken Wheaton that looks every bit like it was plucked out of a vintage Popeye comic book.
Wade Richards, who earned a B.S. in Music Therapy at Fredonia in 1994, believes the widespread use of social distancing, which has dramatically altered much of our world during the coronavirus pandemic, shouldn’t get in the way of providing music therapy to clients who may need it now more than ever.
With the entertainment industry in New York City grinding to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, a pair of Fredonia graduates, Chad Williams, ’03, and Lindsey “Z” Briggs, ’01, made a quick turn in their livelihood, transitioning their puppet theatre company to live streaming.
They were never seen on stage at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center, as more than two dozen undergraduate students were when the curtain rose on the Student Opera Theatre Association’s Opera Scenes in early March, but Fredonia alumni always had integral roles in the productions.
Fredonia has been fielding questions on how the community can support students who are facing unanticipated and unprecedented hardships resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, it established the Student Emergency Relief Fund through the Fredonia College Foundation.