Join us to learn more about our newly-revised Obama Scholars Program, which is currently accepting applications from Oxy sophomores and juniors. Inspired and informed by the President’s own experience at Occidental, the Obama Scholars Program provides exceptional students from all backgrounds with a carefully crafted set of curated experiences to help propel them toward leadership and impact for the public good to create lasting and meaningful change.
Join us to celebrate the youth artists who participated in the Fall 2021 Collaborate workshops.
Sponsored by the Center for Community Based Learning and Latin American Studies Program.
Funding for the exhibit and website was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Arts and Technology grant, Occidental College.
Light refreshments will be served.
About John Tapia Urquiza:
Learn more about how to get involved with OXY ARTS' art education programs and register for the Spring 2022 Collaborate courses, or apply to join the Community Studio teaching cohort.
Collaborate Courses
ARTS100 - 1 Collaborate Workshop: Middle School, Wednesdays, 4 - 6pm
ARTS100 - 2 Collaborate Workshop: Elementary School, Thursdays, 4 - 6pm
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia.
Want to spot which birds are here on campus this fall? Moore Lab's John McCormack and Ryan Terrill will be leading staff and faculty (students welcome too!) around Oxy grounds for two bird walks on Thursday, October 28 and Thursday, November 18. Join us as we take a look at the birds that are visiting us during fall migration.
Let us know if you'll be there, RSVP at jwong3@oxy.edu.
Want to spot which birds are here on campus this fall? Moore Lab's John McCormack and Ryan Terrill will be leading staff and faculty (students welcome too!) around Oxy grounds for two bird walks on Thursday, October 28 and Thursday, November 18. Join us as we take a look at the birds that are visiting us during fall migration.
Let us know if you'll be there, RSVP at jwong3@oxy.edu.
RSVP for the in-person event: http://tiny.cc/PM74_inperson
RSVP for the livestream: http://tiny.cc/PM74_livestream
Born in Russia, Alya studied music and dance as a child and never lost her passion for the arts. As a young woman, she pursued a career in journalism, earning a degree from Moscow State University, and worked as a correspondent for Russia’s leading network, Ria Novosti, covering several of the biggest stories of the day, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 and the Beslan school siege in 2004.
Farhoud Meybodi is an award-winning writer, director, and executive producer focused on storytelling projects that inspire social change. Over the past decade, he has collaborated on a variety of television and digital projects that have been seen over two billion times, raised millions of dollars for terminal illness research, and even helped overturn an unjust Presidential Executive Order. At his core, Farhoud believes in the power of mainstream storytelling to entertain and help heal the political-social divide of the present day.