Peer review
Born in Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, Plamena Pehlivanova, AB’09, spent summers in the mountains with her great-grandparents, who came from a generation that lived by folkloric ideals: devotion to the land and hard labor. With her series of paintings Memoirs of a Forgotten Generation, Pehlivanova tried to capture this rural “alternative reality,” carried on through songs, dances, and stories that are disappearing as its guardians age. “This is all becoming history,” says Pehlivanova. For more, see On Exhibit.
City sounds
Anthropologist Marina Peterson analyzed, and performed in, a Los Angeles outdoor music series.
Horse show
Vanessa Wright takes her equine photography to libraries around the country.
Prayer leader
Austin Murphy, the youngest member of his Benedictine monastery, leads his elders as abbot.
On exhibit
Plamena Pehlivanova, AB’09, explains how she captures "alternative reality" through her paintings.ALSO IN ARTS & SCIENCES
