Welcome to the Edwards Collective!

Welcome! This is the site for the Edwards Collective of Mathey College — a residential community of approximately 35 Princeton undergraduates who live together to share and celebrate the arts and humanities.  Members of the EC are engineers and poets, humanists and anthropologists, computer scientists and artists who have at least one thing in common:  a desire to live among one another and talk about books, music, creative projects, and the place of the arts and humanities in the larger world. Throughout the year the Edwards Collective takes trips to performances and exhibits, interacts with faculty on special trips and at informal dinners, and participates in retreats over university breaks during which students can work on their own projects, both alone and in collaboration.

Thanks for visiting — we hope you’ll take a look around!  Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year will be solicited in February 2022.  Read on for more about this special community and how you might apply to be a part of it. We’ll leave you with a few words from one of our previous members:

The other thing that I love so far about the Edwards Collective is that we all have single rooms, but there are several common spaces for us to study and work together…I really value having a quiet space to do homework in the evenings, but I also love being near friends, too, so this is a great balance for me. Edwards Hall is also quite conveniently located in the center of campus; nothing is too far away.

-Makenna M.

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We’re falling for this retreat already! 🍁🍂 @ Centennial Farm Manor Channeling our inner medieval scribe! #tbt to our craft night where JJ Lopez Haddad ‘23 taught us how to paint and illuminate manuscripts. On a recent afternoon we toured @themuseumofmodernart , marveling at the artistry before us. “It was incredible to see in person many famous paintings that I’ve known about forever and seen pictures of online. In particular, it was interesting to see how big some pieces, like Matisse’s ‘Dance (I),’ were in real life. I noticed that the colors in Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night,’ such as the green of the tree, were brighter or more saturated than they appear on a screen.” — Zoe Montague ‘24 Last weekend The Edwards Collective saw @wecomefromaway on Broadway! 🤩🤩 The theater was filled with electric joy as we celebrated the return of live art — together. After the long, lonely, virtual pandemic months, the musical’s themes resonated in especially striking and personal ways. // “When the sun is setting and it’s darker than the north / If you’re hopin’ for a harbour, then you’ll find an open door” // “Tonight we honour what was lost, but we also commemorate what we found.” Coloring pages and listening to Ludovico Einaudi made for a soothing Edwards study break! Especially as we head into midterms, remember to take moments to breathe. “For years, for decades, discouraging people had been telling me what I couldn’t do. Nay-saying didn’t apply only to art school. Madeleine could have been giving me the soundest advice in the world. No, it was the soundest advice in the world. Only I could not heed her reasoning. I had reasoning of my own that also made good sense. What does orientation look like for the Edward’s Collective? Meandering through the Grounds for Sculpture! 💡String light night💡 King (and Saint) Louis IX of France. Gouache, ink, and gold leaf on paper. King Louis IX ruled France from 1226 to 1270. He is remembered for his deep piety and for his crusading spirit. In his quest to the Holy Land he brought back several passion relics, such as the famed Crown of Thorns, for which he built the Sainte-Chapelle. His pious reputation would later get him canonized by the infamous Pope Boniface VIII in 1297. This is a copy of a miniature in the “St. Louis Bible,” currently housed in the Morgan Library, in NYC