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record 975 artists applied for the awards. Both Senn, virtual reference services librarian, and Youtz, professor of music, received the maximum award of $1,500. A visual artist, Senn uses discarded library books to make sculptures and installations that explore the lifecycle of ideas. It’s an organic, non-linear process, she explains, where thoughts are born, disseminated, and then adopted or forgotten. She finds inspiration in the natural world, from the variety of books she finds and in her work as

carved tree. It swings open without a sound. Once inside, the smell of freshly sanded pine and the notes of organ music wash over you. Welcome to Paul Fritts & Company Organ Builders, the creators of the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ that has resided for the last 10 years in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Fritts, who continued to build the company after he took it over from his father, said that his shop focuses generally on building the big organs for major colleges, institutions and churches

House, this time as Walther von der Vogelweide in the opera Tannhäuser.Baetge grew up in Monroe, Wash., and attended college in Bremerton before coming to PLU from 2001-2004. “PLU had both great teachers and great coaches,” Baetge said. “I got to work with the choir,  which was a great place for me to work on my voice. I loved having the ability to go out and take all of these interesting classes at my will because I was at a full undergrad university.” Many who decide to pursue a career in music

March 19, 2012 Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and she would teach them English songs. (Photo courtesy of Karissa Bryant) Alumna works to teach, train students in India By Katie Scaff ’13 Since graduating from PLU in 2003, music and vocal performance major Karissa Bryant has travelled the

" presented by Seattle-based Showtunes Theatre Company. In 2015, he was commissioned to write his own musical for Seattle Rep, called “Lizard Boy,” after the artistic director saw him play the cello in a musical theater concert. “It was the most of me I’ve ever put on stage,” Huertas said. “This was very much my words, coming out of my own mouth, playing my own music.” Huertas added that if audiences didn’t like the show, it would feel like they didn’t like him. Well, they liked him very much. “Lizard Boy