Arts College
Residential Colleges
Emily Penick, Arts Residential College
The Arts College affirms a vital connection between life and art. We study living artists as well as those who have come before us, and we believe that in making art we cross the boundary between sense and mystery, individual and other.
The foundation seminars give you the opportunity to pursue an interest in the arts by practicing or studying an art in its connection to the culture it reflects and transforms. Focusing on topics such as visual art, the dramatic arts, and imaginative writing, the seminars are supplemented by a common hour once a week that features programs with guest artists and hands-on workshop sessions in a variety of arts, while also enabling you to meet and get to know others in the Arts College. Common hours in the past have included acting workshops, art gallery visits, poetry and fiction readings, dance workshops and performances, mural painting, conversations with composers and professional musicians, and performances by Bucknell singing groups such as Two Past Midnight.
In order to further enrich the foundation seminars, the Arts College junior fellows organize theatre trips, poetry readings, gallery and museum visits, concerts, and other outings, both on campus and away, all designed to contribute to your artistic and intellectual growth. Outings have included day trips to accessible cities such as Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. An overnight trip to New York has become a spring tradition, with tours of museums and galleries, a Broadway play, and free time to explore the city
Arts College students frequently choose to live together after the first year, continuing to take part in common hours, attending arts events on campus with first-year students, and going on the day-trips and overnight excursions. Whether taking the initiative to transform the 7th Street Cafe into a center for student art exhibits, organizing poetry slams, excelling in theatre, music, dance, painting, sculpture, printmaking, poetry, fiction writing, or photography, Arts College students soon take their places among the most active and visible leaders on campus.
