This exhibition features contemporary artists Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams, who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color.
This documentary tells the story of the Nipmuc/Native American identity of the land on which Holy Cross now sits. It covers Nipmuc relations with colonial settlers and the Jesuit community from the 1500s to today. The film visits sites that will be familiar to students and community members and views them through a Native American perspective and through the stories they tell of the profound environmental changes to this area.
The Tony-nominated choreographer, known for co-directing Fire Shut Up In My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera (2021) and choreographing Alicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen (2023), explores Black joy in a new work with her own dance company.
Writers Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann are featured in this Working Writer Series event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Africana Studies programs.
