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Mead Art Museum Introduces “Mead on the Move”

TheReminder.com highlights the new program, piloted in fall 2021 and launched in spring 2022, that “brings art education from the museum’s galleries into pre-K through 12th grade classrooms” in the Amherst area. School visits are developed and facilitated by Amherst College student museum educators and led by Museum Educator Olivia Feal.

Jim Steinman ’69, H’13: The Eccentric King of Fairytale Rebellion and Grand Drama

Around the first anniversary of his death, LouderSound.com published a feature on the life and career of Steinman, the songwriter behind such hits as Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell album.

A Singing Surgeon’s Journey

In an Outside the Office column for Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, Dr. Brian Kim ’97 writes about joining the Zumbyes at Amherst and how he still draws upon his singing skills in his work as an ophthalmologist today.

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May 28

Baccalaureate: An Interfaith Celebration of Our Graduates

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Sep 14

What Looms Large

Feb 22

Liliana Porter: Two Realities

12:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mar 24

5th Annual Black Art Matters Festival: Student Visual Art Showcase

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

May 9

Studio Honors Show 2022

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

May 20

Finals Study Break!

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Amherst Magazine

Inside the Winter 2022 issue: an interview with sociologist Joanne Wang Golann ’04; an essay about the meaning of names by Seoyeon Kim ’21; a recap of the Solidarity Book Project, and more.

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