Peer review: Julia Oldham, MFA’05

Not only does Oldham find beauty in bugs, but she also finds inspiration. In her video art she mimics the movements and behaviors of arthropods of all kinds—crickets, spiders, fireflies—to understand their relationship with their environment (www.juliaoldham.com). Her most recent series, The Timber, taped on her family’s Iowa forest preserve, includes Midge (2009), a minute-and-a-half-long video that explores aquatic insect larvae. See “A bug’s dance.

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Three young-alumni authors have gotten big-time book deals, thanks to agent Stephen Barbara.

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Anthropologist Kath Weston chronicles “poverty in motion” on America’s buses.
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A bug’s dance

Julia Oldham’s artwork is inspired by creatures that make most people squeal.

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In The November Criminals, Sam Munson, AB’03, starts with the protagonist philosophizing about the nature of “good” and “bad” in response to a University of Chicago application question.

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