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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…

A man in a dark suit stands before a full, seated audience. He stands at a podium on an elevated stage, lit by a spotlight in a dimly lit theatre. Behind him, the words “The Indiana University Cinema” is projected on the richly hued, velvet curtains that are gathered in luxurious folds.

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…

A close-up look at a wooden mechanical puzzle.

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…

Anita DeCastro, Virginia Hojas, and Grace Wang demonstrate aerial arts

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…

Zachary Spicer on the set of The Good Catholic

Lights, Camera, Hoosiers: IU alumni return to Bloomington to film a rom-com

In late January 2016, a group of IU alumni returned to Bloomington, Ind., with cameras and a production crew in tow. For three weeks,…

Star Wars fan David West Reynolds in the desert

The Force is Strong with This Hoosier

Seeing 1977’s Star Wars changed David West Reynolds’s life forever. “(It) burst upon my imagination like nothing else I had ever experienced,” explains Reynolds, BA’88, of New Albany, Ind. “What bowled me over…

Superhero of Fun

With a degree in criminal justice and experience in martial arts, it just makes sense that Jake Pierle, BA’14, became a superhero. When his…

Arianna Dormiente (Sleeping Arianna), a second-century Roman sculpture, is part of the Uffizi Gallery Collection in Florence, Italy, to be digitized in 3-D. Photo: IU Communications

Great Art Deserves to Live Forever

Thanks to IU’s Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, it can. The Laboratory recently partnered with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, to create high-resolution 3-D…

Sweet Sculpture

Pop in on artist Makenzie Kus, BA’07, at 2 a.m. just about any weekend, and you’ll find her still hard at work on her…