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Alumna Author-Illustrator Rebekah Lowell (with Frances Gilbert)

Rebekah Lowell is an author-illustrator and surface pattern designer with a passion for the natural world. As a survivor of domestic abuse, she’s found the natural world to be a peaceful healing ground. Her debut novel in verse, The Road to After, offers a story of healing from trauma, and her debut picture book, Catching Flight, provides hope […]

Agent Chad W. Beckerman

Chad W. Beckerman brings over 20 years of illustration and design experience to the CAT Agency. After studying illustration as an undergrad at RISD, Beckerman went on to be a designer at Scholastic, a senior designer at Greenwillow Books, and then became the creative director at ABRAMS Kids and Comic Arts, where he spent 13 years […]

Lecture by Roosevelt Montás

Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

Roosevelt Montás is senior lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. He holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. He was director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. Montás specializes in Antebellum American […]

Artist Talk: Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Art Exhibition: “Humanistic Geography-Uncovering a Sense of Place Gina Louthian-Stanley ’00 is a multimedia artist, writer, and workshop instructor born and living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Louthian-Stanley has worked primarily as a printmaker since the late 1970s. In 2006, she began experimenting with encaustic techniques in which she juxtaposes transparent and opaque […]

“What Cuban Literature? An Approach to Mediatization in the 21st Century”

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

In this presentation, Dainerys Machado Vento will discuss the mediatic circulation of Cuban literature outside the island as a case study to understand a process like mediatization. She will focus on analyzing the general characteristics of international mediatization of Cuban literature from 2006 to 2018. Questions that will be posed during her talk include which […]

“The Fragile Elegance of Truth: The Trials Against Genocides in Argentina”

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

The military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 left the country with evidence of more than 30,000 disappeared citizens. In 1985, Julio César Strassera was chosen as public prosecutor to make the new democratic government’s case against the military junta for alleged crimes against humanity. Claudia Bernardi’s presentation, using Argentina, 1985 as a […]

“Simetría-Dos”

Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

Simetría-Dos is a digital humanities project developed by sisters Patricia and Claudia Bernardi. Patricia, a forensic anthropologist, works as a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF, investigating violations of human rights committed against civilians in Argentina and beyond. Claudia is an artist who works with survivors of political violence. The project evinces how […]

Roanoke Regional Writers Conference

Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building

Roanoke Regional Writers Conference 2024 is the ideal place to learn, grow, and experience the excitement that comes with your love of writing. Join us on January 19 – 20. Cost of the conference is $75 and includes lunch. A Message from the Director Welcome back! It’s my extreme honor to invite you to the 15th […]

Website: https://www.hollins.edu/rrwc

Artist-in-Residence Lecture with Ying Li

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: “Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III” exhibition through April 14, 2024 Ying Li is known for her thickly painted, abstract plein air paintings created in beautiful outdoor gardens, landscapes, and urbanscape settings around the world and across the United States. She has taught at Haverford College since 1997 and […]

Zoom Lecture with L’Merchie Frazier

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

L’Merchie Frazier is an accomplished visual activist, public artist, historian, and poet. She is a member of Women of Color Network Quilters, founded by Carolyn Mazloomi, Ph.D., whose quilt collection is currently on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum. In this lecture, Frazier will discuss the contributions of African American quiltmakers with particular attention […]

Nationally Known Psychologist and Author to Discuss “Hope in a Time of Monsters”

Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building

Professor and education expert Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of the new book Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, will speak in Hollins University’s Babcock Auditorium on Monday, March 4, at 9 a.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Cavanagh is the senior associate director for teaching and learning at […]

Women’s Role within the Eastern Siouan Tribes of Virginia’s Interior

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

Victoria Persinger Ferguson is an enrolled citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia. She serves on the Monacan Historic Resource Committee and is the program director for Historic Solitude/Fraction on the campus of Virginia Tech. She is a graduate of Marshall University and has 30 years of experience researching science methodologies and historical documentation […]