Ain’t Nobody’s Fool
Biographer Martha Ackmann, MA English ’79, recently published a new book on Dolly Parton, tracing Parton’s songwriting and artistry back to her childhood and experience of poverty in East Tennessee.
Stories
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Fraught Art Landscape
Lisa Phillips ’75, director of The New Museum, joined Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, for a conversation with The New York Times about launching expanded buildings and staying focused on their missions at an uncertain time for cultural institutions.
Skating Senator
Vermont State Senator Brian Collamore ’72 wrangles legislation by day and hockey players by night.
50 Years a Potter
Christine Lansdale Willis, who matriculated with the class of 1977, is exhibiting art from her 50-year ceramics career at the Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics in Athens, Greece.
Buried Tales, Haunted Storyteller
In an interview with People magazine, Julia Alvarez ’71 shares insights from her latest (and possibly last) novel, which is her response to the question of growing old as an artist.
A Chapter Closed
Over 23 years in the English department at Colorado State University, Sarah Sloane ’79 helped hundreds of students tell their stories. In honor of her retirement, CSU profiled Sloane about lessons learned, memories made, and what comes next.
Red State, Green Initiatives
60 Minutes featured the energy innovation work of Wyoming governor Mark Gordon ’79 and Cully Cavness ’09, whose company is redirecting gas flares to power supercomputers.
1970s Lesbian Life
Browse more than 1,500 images from the Bee Ottinger ’70 Lesbian Collection, which is now available online. Ottinger documented life in the early ’70s at the Lesbian House, a community in Los Angeles for queer women rejected by their families.
Taking the Patriarchy to Task
V ’75, the creator of The Vagina Monologues, addresses racism, colonialism, and sexual violence in her new collection, Reckoning.