When you step into Hillsdale’s Daughtrey Gallery in the Sage Center for the Arts, you are met with an explosion of color. Vibrant strokes of paint characterize featured artist Mark Mehaffey’s pieces. He uses both watercolor and acrylic to display his artistic abilities, and has both abstract and representational work displayed in the gallery. “There’s something powerful and inescapable about...
Culture
Expressing beauty through scrapbooking
“YOU scrapbook?!” many said when I told them about the subject of this column. The last time I evoked such a shocked response was when I told my father that I, his last hope for a jock in the family, wanted to join the dance and cheerleading team during basketball season. Shocking, I know. For someone who’s opted to play...
CANTUS concert draws clapping crowds
Saturday evening, the all-male, nonprofit, professional a capella group CANTUS performed at College Baptist Church to a sold-out crowd with a waiting list of over 100 people. The concert began with an African proverb: “if you have legs, you can dance; if you have a voice, you can sing.” The proverb set the tone for the entire concert, which took...
Students’ soundtrack, Gregory Alan Isakov
Folk singer Gregory Alan Isakov enraptured the city of Ann Arbor and about 30 Hillsdale students on January 18 with his performance at The Ark, a notable folk music hall. The performer filled all 400 seats of the cozy venue. “The atmosphere was very nice and pleasant, and it felt very intimate between him and the audience,” junior Christina Lambert...
