Fall 2025 Arts@LC Newsletter is here!

As we look back on the Fall Fine Arts Season at Lewis & Clark, we are struck by the ways in which our faculty and students are engaging with artistic practices that are in and of our world: collaborations with local community nonprofits such as Elbow Room; a Theatre Mainstage, Rain + Zoe Save the World, which explored the potential and challenges of activism; and presentations by our Native Artist-Scholar in Residence, Luhui Whitebear, considering legacies of “Place” in relation to indigenous history. Lewis & Clark is a community that is dedicated to the arts as social practice. In a world that often feels overwhelming, isolating and disconnected, it is inspiring to see the ways in which our students, faculty and community can come together to create counter-narratives around collaboration, dialogue, and understanding. Art History alumnus Jason Kowsiski (LC ’23) says it best when he notes, “I care a lot about supporting artistic integrity and protecting the rights of artists, in part because of the political implications of art as speech, but largely just to protect beautiful things and the cultures that create them.”

Over the course of the fall, we carried our art outside of our studios and classrooms and into the world. These events included our second annual presentation of Hunter Noack’s In a Landscape: Classical Music in the Wild concert, bringing together members of our community with the general public to experience live music in the wonder of our campus gardens. Students had the opportunity to join the New York Fine Arts Program this fall for the first time since the pandemic. This program, which has a 40-year legacy at Lewis & Clark, brings students to New York City for the semester to study Theatre, Art, and History through experiential learning opportunities, as well as working in the arts industry through an internship. Students shared their work at monthly pop-up performances at Watzek, and we hosted former Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani as an EAR Forest Artist in Residence, weaving his poetry through the trees of the Tryon Creek forest.

The arts at Lewis & Clark connect us to each other, to our local community and to the world at large. They offer a space to reflect, to heal, to dream and to create lasting change in the world. Lewis & Clark is a place where the arts are built into the fabric of everything we do, and we see our students engage deeply the abundance of opportunities that our programs offer including; the creation of new performance, zine-making workshops, photography club, bookbinding, printmaking, orchestra, wind symphony, choir, Ghanaian drumming ,the radio station, the gaming society, the Platteau and on and on. Arts@LC is proud to be able to continue to advocate for and “protect the beautiful things and the cultures that make them.”

Rebecca Lingafelter (Theatre)

Kathy FitzGibbon (Music)

Jess Perlitz (Art)

Fall 2025Art@LC Newsletter