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Chapel credit for Shrek: The Musical? How the production incorporated spiritual formation
The last thing students who attended Shrek: The Musical expected to receive was chapel credit for the show; however, Kaden Vinson-Kinney was determined to make the musical not only culturally beneficial, but spiritually enriching.
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Grammy U and Alex Warren inspire students at Fall Summit
On Sunday, Nov. 8, the Grammys came to Music City. Grammy U’s fourth annual fall summit brought music majors and young professionals from across the country to downtown Nashville’s The Pinnacle. The organization aims to support the music industry’s next generation through networking and educational opportunities. The summit began on Saturday, Nov. 7, with a showcase event featuring live music from headliner MŌRIAH. Other performers included Kelsey Blackstone, Davi Vandelay and Laken Campo. The main event, however, was Sunday’s keynote conversation with Grammy-nominated Alex Warren and 9-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow. Warren and Crow explored social media and vulnerability during a keynote conversation titled “Beyond the Screen.” For Warren,…
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Student designers take on “With Love Halston” challenge
Article co-written by Havana Weigant. The annual Fashion Show this year concluded by highlighting students’ abilities to create designs and produce wearable pieces of art inspired by the work of Roy Halston Frowick. Lipscomb is home to the third-largest collection of Halston’s archives in the country, and the “With Love Halston” Foundation hosts a design challenge for schools throughout the world to create designs based on his work. The foundation is visiting Lipscomb for the second time in its history. This year, seven students participated in this challenge, and the winner received a scholarship of 10,000 dollars. To begin the challenge, designers were paired with a fine art student to…
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Illustration Workshop: A look into fashion art
To kick off Fashion Week, the Department of Fashion started with an educational workshop on fashion illustration. Carrie Mills gave a hands-on presentation about the basics of fashion illustration. Each student was given a work pad to draw alongside Carrie. Posters of Joe Eula’s designs were on display as a reference for the style they are trying to learn. Carrie had the students draw from a volunteer model. She also provided other images to capture the pose and outfit. “I like how it’s encouraged for us to be loose. We focus on the general movement of the shapes and the clothes,” said Eleanor Elliott, a fashion design major. The experience…
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Hispanic Heritage Month wraps up with student art exhibit
As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to an end, the Office of Intercultural Development (OID) hosted a Hispanic art exhibit for students. Students at Lipscomb had the opportunity to express their interpretations of Hispanic culture through art, including fashion, painting, drawing and photography.
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Review: The wind ensemble and orchestra perform a phenomenal mid-semester performance
As the fall semester reached its halfway point, the wind ensemble and the orchestra put on their mid-semester performance. To start the concert, the wind ensemble took the stage with powerful, energetic music, featuring instruments ranging from beautiful flutes to rhythmic percussion.
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Rain or shine, students turn out for Wild Bison Festival
Rain might have pushed the Wild Bison Festival inside, but it didn’t dampen the music. On Saturday, Oct. 3, more than 15 music artists played at a free event on Lipscomb’s campus.
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The Chainsmokers concert starts with confusion and ends in accomplishment
Lights on the Lawn — an event hosted by Vanderbilt University to raise money for charity — almost ended in failure. After early performances by smaller DJs, The Chainsmokers went on stage on Friday night to start the set everyone was waiting for. But less than a minute after their music started, they were rushed off stage.
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Theatre Department’s The Giver asks hard questions of its audience
The theatre department’s first play of the semester traded spotlights for graywash as it brought Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” to life. The show ran from Sept. 11-13 in Sewell’s Black Box Theater. Unlike other theaters, the venue does not feature a lifted stage. Instead, actors with pale-powdered faces and dyed dark hair stood an arm’s reach away from the audience as they told the story of Jonas, Sameness and a world without choice. The play followed the main character, Jonas, as he’s assigned the role of Receiver of Memory in a world called the Sameness. In the Sameness, people have chosen to forget the past, in exchange for a painless…
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Mouthfuls of Sky gives Lipscomb a taste of the infinite
Today, students walking into Beaman Library to study might find themselves swallowed up by a universe of stars. M. Kobe Ling’s Mouthfuls of Sky opened in the John C. Hutcheson Gallery last night. The exhibit, hosted in collaboration with Lipscomb's visual arts department, spans the length of the glass-paneled room. A walkway allows viewers to see Kobe’s creation from all angles.
