Oglethorpe University’s Commencement Ceremony honoring the graduating Class of 2018 will be held Saturday, May 12 at 9:00 a.m. on the academic quad. Can’t make it to campus for graduation? No worries. This year, Oglethorpe commencement will be livestreamed on Facebook. The live video will start at 8:55 am on the Oglethorpe Facebook page. Speaking at this […]
May 11 – June 24, 2018 The Southeastern Pastel Society presents its 18th International Juried Exhibition, featuring 93 pastel paintings selected out of hundreds of works submitted. The artists represented are from 13 states. The exhibition is juried by Dawn Emerson, a graduate from Brown University in 1977 with a BA in English and a […]
Don’t miss the Senior Art Exhibition happening this Friday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the TLCC Student Commons! Featuring works from graduating art seniors: Jutoria Warner Elizabeth Allen Camille Louise Taylor Holmes Audrey Stadler Sean Handy Gaffney Taylor Rachel Farrington Larissa Randall Alyssa MacKenzie
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is proud to be a Blue Star Museum for a sixth summer! Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across the country to offer free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel […]
If you don’t mind us bragging for a minute, Oglethorpe looks good in the new trailer for Netflix’s Candy Jar. Lowry Hall opens the short clip, and Lupton Auditorium, the Academic Quad and Hearst Hall can all be identified throughout the teaser. Candy Jar follows an introverted high school girl from a working-class background and […]
Oglethorpe’s Coexist student club recently joined forces with the Oglethorpe International Ambassadors and Phi Delta Epsilon to co-host the 2018 International Fashion and Talent Showcase, an event meant to translate “Oglethorpe’s diversity into visuals.” The inaugural showcase in 2017 came out of “Better Together Day,” an initiative begun by Interfaith Youth Core to promote a […]
The Oglethorpe University Singers will be joined by Georgia’s own Chuck Nation Band, to perform an all-bluegrass lineup: Come Away to the Skies, A High Lonesome Mass by Wes Ramsay and Tim Sharp. The concert will be held Thursday, April 19, at 8:00 p.m. at the Conant Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10, available at: oglethorpeuniversity.thundertix.com. […]
Oglethorpe University’s Commencement Ceremony honoring the graduating Class of 2018 will be held on Saturday, May 12 at 9:00 a.m. on the academic quad. Speaking at this year’s Commencement will be honorary degree recipient Christopher Jackson, a Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning actor and an Emmy Award-winning songwriter/composer. Oglethorpe will present Jackson with the honorary […]
Add Love, Simon to the growing list of blockbusters and TV shows featuring Oglethorpe’s picturesque campus. Based on Becky Albertalli’s acclaimed novel, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, the film is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love. Love, Simon was released March 16 and […]
The Georgia Watercolor Society National Exhibition 2018 will be on view in the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art from March 17 – April 29, 2018. This year there were 345 submissions of original paintings in water media in a wide variety of styles and materials. Jurist and master watercolorist Kathleen Conover made a selection of […]