Alumni News
Young Playwrights Competition The winning plays from Dorset Theatre Festival’s Jean E. Miller Young Playwrights Competition, which is supported by ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College faculty, students, and alumni, will be performed on Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 p.m., at the Manchester Community Library.
"Line Into Color" Opens at Gagosian A new exhibition of the later works of Helen Frankenthaler '49 opened today at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. The show, titled Line Into Color, Color Into Line and curated by John Elderfield, includes "works where the painter was exploring the division between drawing and painting." It will run until October 29.
"The Most Outstanding" Lynn Emanuel '72 has been awarded the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her new book The Nerve of It.
"Remembered Light"Remembered Light, the newest show from photographer Sally Mann '73, will open at Gagosian Gallery in New York City on September 22nd. The show was inspired by her friendship with artist Cy Twombly, who passed away in 2011. The show includes "intimate and elegiac images, some with just the play of light on the wall and floor of [Twombly's] emptied studio."
MFAW Alumna Wins Fiction Prize Lydia MartÃn MFAW '16 has won Ploughshare's 2016 Emerging Writer's Contest Fiction Prize for her story "The Adjustment Act." Fiction judge Anthony Marra called it "a flat-out triumph: richly characterized, gorgeously rendered, deeply humane." Ploughshares, which is published by Emerson College, "has been committed to promoting the work of up-and-coming writers" since 1971.