Spring Soirée featuring Kate Pukinskis and Miloslava Hruba
February 11TH, 2021
The Arts at Amherst Initiative's bi-annual soirées give Amherst College faculty and staff the opportunity to share their research in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. In the spring of 2021, we were thrilled to have the Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Kate Pukinskis, and the Mead Art Museum Study Room Manager and European Print Specialist, Miloslava Hruba speaking at the event. Kate talked about how her role as a composer informs her scholarly research around the notions of cultural identity, diaspora, traditional folk and choral music, and activism, with particular emphasis on Latvia and 20th-century American art song. Miloslava shared field notes from her recent survey of printmaking practices in the former Czechoslovakia (1948 - 1989) with a focus on gender differences within the ideologically and culturally ostracised group of non-conforming artists.
Links shared during the conversation:
2018 Latvian Song Festival
Kate Pukinskis's composition, Three Latvian Folk Songs
Kate Pukinskis's composition, A Sense of Decency