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CELEBRATE! profile: Alaina Pineda ’09

May 5, 2009

Alaina Pineda ’09 saw a disconnect between the campus community and the university’s art collection, and the art history major wanted to convey her passion for artwork by “unmasking the problems of the art collection in a scholarly way.” Her subsequent research project, “More Than Just Stuff on the Wall,” was presented at SURF this week and is the last in a series of E-net profiles to highlight undergraduate research during CELEBRATE! 2009.

Winter Term class gifts work to Greensboro school

February 20, 2009

For young people with few English skills, bright fabric panels speak every language. Students in a Winter Term art course created five quilted banners to hang in the library of a Greensboro school for children new to the United States – and the Elon class unveiled its work in a Feb. 20 presentation.

“Emerging Futures” forum inspires artistic discussion

January 23, 2009

What themes do spiritual dances, graphic designs and a quilted children’s story share? And how will art make a difference in an age of rapid, global change? Those questions were among the topics discussed Jan. 23 in one of a series of forums held as part of the Winter Term 2009 theme “Emerging Futures: Foresight for Global Good.”