Tag: arts

A tumultuous transition for liberal arts school

As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed the state Legislature on its opening day of the 2024 session, he paused to point out a college baseball player in the Senate chambers’ upper viewing gallery. It was J.T. Leanos, a freshman outfielder on the first-year baseball team at New College, the smallest school in the state’s public […]

Fall River’s Kathy Castro had infectious enthusiasm for the arts

FALL RIVER — Whether it was in print, on radio, on TV, on the stage, or one-on-one, Kathy Castro reached out. Throughout her life in Fall River, she saw endless beauty in art, culture and community, and wanted to share it with anyone who would listen. Castro, a Fall River native who created the Portuguese […]

I wrote a play for children about integrating the arts into STEM fields − here’s what I learned about encouraging creative, interdisciplinary thinking

Often, science and art are described as starkly different things. That narrative can start early on, with kids encouraged to pursue a STEM – short for science, technology, engineering and math – education that may or may not include an arts education. As a professor of acting, I’d never thought much about the STEM fields […]