2019 COLLEGE OF ARTS, LETTERS AND EDUCATION
DEANS’ CORNER – GREETINGS FROM BRIAN DONAHUE AND PETE PORTER
We are truly fortunate to teach, learn, study and work in a community of artists and researchers who produce insightful, exciting and powerful creative works and scholarly writing. The professional activities of faculty in the College of Arts, Letters and Education bring great benefits to our students, sometimes through students’ direct collaboration on these projects and always through the heightened energy and new perspectives faculty bring to the classroom as a result of their work. These activities are not only important professional accomplishments for faculty but also an essential way in which EWU promotes student success. In this issue of the newsletter, we invite you to read about some of the excellent scholarly and creative achievements of CALE faculty in recent months. These represent just a sample of the outstanding work produced in the college each year in diverse fields ranging from film and music to philosophy and special education, from exercise science and technical writing to literary studies and art. Whether highlighted in these pages or not, we celebrate the many professional successes of CALE faculty.
Brian Donahue, PhD Interim Co-Dean Pete Porter, PhD Interim Co-Dean
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REFLECTION/REFRACTION – SARANAC ART PROJECTS
Reflection/Refraction is a series of new works and collaborations by Lisa Nappa and Chris Tyllia. It investigates the visual qualities of light as it passes through water, clouds, glass, our eyes and imaginations. Reflection and refraction describe how waves—such as light, sound and heat—travel, interact and change our perception. This exhibition not only explores the aesthetics of these phenomena, but also emphasizes the importance of the subtle, quiet and calm reflections that can often lead to a deeper understanding of the world around us. LONGWATER A video collaboration by Lisa Nappa and Chris Tyllia This piece was edited together using several different clips of water captured from various local, distant and imagined locales. It’s an exploration of the meditative seduction of moving water and reflections of light. Light and water are intrinsically linked in our memory, providing slippages and overlaps of time, place and recollection. WATER MEMORY SERIES A series of collages by Lisa Nappa It is often the things that we cannot hold on to that intrigue me: shadows on a wall, slight movement within leaves on a tree, reflecting light on a body of water. These moments of fleeting beauty hold a magic that is elusive and brings forth the ultimate emotion of ephemerality. There is a sadness, or just the practical sense of knowing that this perfect moment cannot last, cannot be contained or kept, and yet this is exactly what I try to do.