Q & A with Twilla MacLeod – curious arts

Twilla Macleod Performing As Booming Tree.

UAlberta acting grad now Taiko drummer and grad advisor in UAlberta Music  Twilla MacLeod. Photo by James Lyall. Posted with permission from Twilla MacLeod. Guest post by Carmen Rojas We have the coolest staff in the Fine Arts departments at the University of Alberta. Take Twilla MacLeod (’00 BFA Acting). She currently works full time … Read moreQ & A with Twilla MacLeod – curious arts

Yue Deng: From China to Canada – curious arts

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Q & A with UAlberta Music’s Artist in Residence Violinist Yue Deng has performed with the likes of Michael Bublé and Randy Newman, in famed concert halls like Carnegie Hall. She’s recorded with renowned French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and performed on albums with Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick and Willie Nelson. But she loves to teach … Read moreYue Deng: From China to Canada – curious arts

Darian Goldin Stahl: HABITUS – curious arts

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Fusing my sister’s MRI scans with my own bodily impressions Sisters Devan Stahl (left) and Darian Goldin Stahl (right). My works concentrate on the complex emotions that accompany a medical diagnosis of chronic illness and the status of our fallible bodies. I am most interested in the psychological impact of what is revealed by internal … Read moreDarian Goldin Stahl: HABITUS – curious arts

Elisabeth Hauptmann: Invisible Author – curious arts

by Christine Lesiak Elisabeth Hauptmann. Longstanding debate rages as to the authorship of many of Brecht’s works, and Elisabeth Hauptmann’s hand in the The Threepenny Opera is no exception. Hauptmann was in her early 20s when she moved to Berlin where she was hired by Brecht as his secretary and worked as his translator. Witnesses … Read moreElisabeth Hauptmann: Invisible Author – curious arts