For 90 years now, the Oscars has celebrated cinema. This year it was also a celebration of the growth of diversity and culture in the film industry. “The greatest thing art does, our industry does, is to erase the lines in the sand we should continue doing that when the world tells us to…
James Fixx (’18) will be the fourth student at Hope College to complete a recording arts composite major. Up until the fall of 2015, only one small recording studio existed, in the basement of Dimnent Memorial Chapel. With the help of many hardworking individuals, including the current director of recording arts, Drew Elliot, a…
The author of “Swamplandia!” is coming to Hope College this Thursday. She will be in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium in Martha Miller for a Q&A and a reading at Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts in the recital hall. Russell is a novelist and short story writer. Her book “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for …
As the first Marvel movie to come out this year, “Black Panther” has already made over twice its budget in box office success on opening night. The film starts out with an artistic introduction on the historical and regional tensions going on in the hidden, highly advanced fictional nation of Wakanda. After these creative…
Peals of laughter issued from the audience as playful interactions developed on the stage. Hope College Theatre presented a production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” which closed this past Sunday. The four-person cast was small yet mighty as they told the story of a loving yet dysfunctional family. “The Glass Menagerie” is presented…
Rain has been as much a part of art as a part of our world. With snowy weather on its way out of Holland, a not-so-new form of precipitation is taking its place: rain. In many places, rain and cloudy weather are inherent to the spring season, and it is not only life itself…
The performance hall rang with applause. A sizeable audience had just heard the music of Joni Mitchell wonderfully and creatively brought to life by Hope College students. This past Saturday evening, Hope’s folk ensembles gave a concert in The Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts. Each group had prepared pieces written by Joni…
Ancient stone carvings of camels and donkeys have been found in the Al Jawf province of Saudi Arabia. A nation with a regional history many thousands of years old, archeologists are still uncovering multiple hidden gems of ancient artwork and architecture in the Middle Eastern nation, from ancient gates scattered across the deserts to…
Students and faculty members streamed into the recital hall, buzzing with anticipation. Members of Hope’s jazz ensemble contributed to the atmosphere. This past Thursday in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts, Hope College welcomed the first authors to visit for the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series for the spring semester: Lauren Haldeman…
Artist Kelly Ocock (‘19) captures the memories held within objects in her photos. Ocock, more commonly known by her artist name Kelly Jean, opened her own student exhibit to public viewing on Feb. 1. Ocock is also The Anchor’s very own Photo Editor. She has shown an aptitude in photo-medium ever since a photography…