Jason Vuic: Finding Success Through Failure
Here’s a bit of irony: Author Jason Vuic, PhD’05, has become a success by writing about failure. The books he wrote about the joke-of-a-car…
Arts & Culture
Meg Cabot: Hoosier and Prolific “Princess”
The writer Meg Cabot’s, BA’91, life could have gone in an entirely different artistic direction. Raised in Bloomington, Ind., the author of The Princess…
Ross Gay: A Way with Words
In 2015, IU Bloomington Associate Professor Ross Gay’s latest book of poetry, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Though…
From Cream and Crimson to Grammy Gold
Indiana University is home to one of the nation’s most prestigious schools of music, the Jacobs School of Music. So it may come as…
The Top 5 Rock Albums of All Time (According to this IU Music Prof)
In 1982, Glenn Gass became the first professor in the United States to offer a course in the history of rock ‘n’ roll within…
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.: An Alum’s Ticket Memory
Ross Fazekas, BS’88, has been attending music concerts since 1982. He keeps every ticket stub and proudly displays hundreds of them in poster-size frames…
Seeing A Second Life
As a longtime lover of lakes and antiques, painter Douglas David, BFA’79, has seen his fair share of wooden water skis that have been…
Beauty In The Rough
Christopher D. White’s sculptures play with the themes of growth and decay. He finds beauty in both, and he captures that in his sculptures….
Slow And Steady Art
Stop-motion animation takes forever,” Addie Snider, BA’12, says while laughing. At 200 to 300 frames per minute, eight hours of work equals about one…
Screen Savor
“If the ancient Greeks had invented cinema, they’d have a temple like this,” director Peter Weir mused during his visit to the Indiana University…
Six Wonders of the Lilly Library
IU Bloomington’s Lilly Library is home to an impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts, as well as other items that spark curiosity and…
Dancing in Air
When Anita DeCastro, BA’09, MA’14, is on the pole, she says she feels invincible and powerful. You can see the strength in her arms…