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this? What have you been trying to demonstrate yourself, or what have you seen from those around you that you’ve been appreciative of? Tachibana: I’m fortunate because I work with a really good team of colleagues. I think some of that needs to be calmness. A sense of hope and perseverance that we’re going to find our way through this and we will emerge out the other side. Good listening skills. People who can hear different perspectives, and then actually have to land on a decision to move forward

the U.S., I knew it was coming,” said Grahe. He had three other research projects in mind but when COVID hit, but the decision to shift his research priorities was an easy one. “It was clear that this was more important,” he said.Grahe reached out to a colleague in Australia and learned of a researcher who was conducting a survey to measure health attitudes in response to the virus just before it became a pandemic. Both Grahe and Cook used that survey as their starting points. Grahe and his

office after dropping out of the University of Oregon in 2010. The decision to enlist, she says, was “a bit of a last resort” to get her family and friends to stop asking what she was doing with her life. “There I was signing my life away feeling relieved that this will get me at least four years to become someone others weren’t worried about all of the time,” she says. Three years later, Raven Lopez ’22 realized that after one year at the University of Arizona, she wouldn’t be able to afford college

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final push out of the safety net. Instead of our professors motivating us and making us work hard, we have to be our own motivation and make ourselves work and put our best foot forward,“ Tessa Heck, BFA student, says. After graduation Miller has a summer internship doing graphic design in DC for a think tank, The Heritage Foundation. After that she says she’s open to the next great adventure.  Heck is trying to get a museum or gallery job, she has a few offers on the table, but hopes to find an

framework. During the week we would go to museums and galleries to see exhibits both traditional and contemporary. These visits broadened my understanding of contemporary art and the context for these works. I enjoyed seeing all the different forms of expression and processes the different artists employed. What are your goals, either for the internship or your artistic career? I want to continue developing and making art. After undergrad I dream of going to graduate school in one of the major art

,” Mare Blocker, Exhibit Curator and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & Design says. “Most of the book artists I know love to tell stories, and read, and they love the material aspect of this art form.” The Exhibit will feature more than 20 artists, with several debuting new works. Works will come in different shapes, sizes and mediums; traditional bookbinding will be transformed and will challenge the viewer’s idea of a book. Book making takes several time-intensive steps. The craft is

ceramic), was the driving force for the direction of her work. “That piece helped me finally understand and articulate the work I was making,” Henderson explained. “The common theme for my work is the concept of dynamic tension; each sculpture narrates a moment associated with growing up, and seeks to induce emotion and ponderous thought from the viewer.” A flux is a medium used in ceramics to lower the melting point of glaze materials; it is the key element that gives glazes their unique qualities