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PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance LATEST POSTS PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022 Two Anniversaries, One World Premiere October 5, 2022

Determination), Tacoma Public Schools. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Using examples from entertainment, news media, advertising and K-12 public education research, DiAngelo spent the morning illustrating a jarring truth: “the default of our society is the reproduction of white supremacy.” The afternoon centered on exploring the roots of white defensiveness and microaggressions, as well as ways to challenge racism in individual relationships, classrooms and institutions at large. Diversity Institute co

Professor Bea Geller’s sabbatical exhibition and looking back on 33 years at PLU Posted by: Kate Williams / March 5, 2018 March 5, 2018 By Kate WilliamsOutreach ManagerA new exhibition titled, Finding Tacoma: The Changing Faces of the Northwest Environment will feature the latest photographs by Bea Geller, drawn from work completed during her recent sabbatical. The gallery show runs March 7 to April 4, 2018 with an opening reception on March 7 from 5 – 8pm in the University Gallery in Ingram

. Calcagno found most people knew bits and pieces, but that most of their information was colored by the media or political rhetoric. “What we get from the media or politics is not always right,” she said. “We need to educate others about the truth … to change the language so they can comprehend it and encourage them to change their life.” Currently, the ambassadors are working to ways to educate the community and motivate them to take action. Projects in the works include a documentary film, YouTube

vision of one day seeing her art in a museum. “I know that I’m going to manifest that for myself, because I know I’m worth that, and what I envision is worth that,” she says. Using mixed media ranging from denim and drapery textile samples to braiding hair and acrylic paint, Thompson envisions her work as a space to reimagine what the world could look like “if we accepted who we are beyond expectations and structures within society.”  One such space has been the University Gallery Annex, where

Global health leader and human rights advocate to visit PLU and discuss the impact of COVID-19 on LGBTIQ+ communities globally Posted by: bennetrr / February 4, 2021 February 4, 2021 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University’s biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Celebration of Service will be held virtually at 7 p.m. on March 9. Amie Bishop, a global health leader and human rights advocate will deliver the keynote lecture titled “Vulnerabilities Amplified

foundation in drawing, and more specifically, life drawing. “Liken [Life Drawing] to a musician practicing scales or [a mechanic] tuning a car; it sharpens your mind and life – it’s a huge part of my life and teaching,” Cox says. David Keyes’ work consists of ceramic sculpture and vessels, cast and fabricated bronze/mixed media techno-archaic sculptures. Many sculptures are based on antique tools and scientific equipment, which are both purposeful and aesthetic. “I’ve been a collector my whole life, and

, and environmental violence: The politics of invisibility and the horizon of hope. Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i4.6959 Reports and Websites CDC. (2023, May 8). Health risks of social isolation and loneliness. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Office of the Surgeon General (OSG). (2023). Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation: The U.S. Surgeon general’s advisory on the healing effects of social connection and community. US Department of Health and