Author: kurkoski

  Edwards Collective members gather in the RGS suite for the final gathering of the year For the Edwards Collective, 2017-18 was thronged with arts and humanities events in every category imaginable—dance, opera, street art, poetry….the list goes on! Fortunately, after the mad rush of the academic year, we had the chance to gather and… Continue reading End of Year Party

Edwards Collective member Nathan Phan ’19 talks about his experience as a part of our community This March, we met the new members of the Edwards Collective and bid farewell to our departing friends at a Welcome Dessert in the Mathey Common Room. Once you are a member of the Edwards Collective, you are always… Continue reading Welcome Desserts

Members of the Edwards Collective at the Opera Philadelphia From left to right: RGS Maggie Kurkoski, Lucina Schwartz ‘19, Ellie Maag ’19, Christian Lawson ’19, Rachel Inman ’20, Nathan Phan ‘19, Claire Thornton ‘19 On a chilly February day the Edwards Collective saw a performance of Written on Skin, at Opera Philadelphia, at the genius suggestion of Claire Thornton ’19.… Continue reading Written on Skin

Reflection by Shruthi Rajasekar ’18 I have been looking forward to the retreat since I joined the Edwards Collective. Most of the people were not individuals I knew in Edwards, so I was excited to meet new people! I was supposed to be on campus during all of fall break for tech week of a new… Continue reading Fall 2017 Retreat

Reflection by Tashi Treadway ’19 Edwards Collective members Alexander Lin ’18 and Gabrielle Chen ’18 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photograph by Tashi Treadway ’19 Four of us journeyed to the Philadelphia Art Museum to specifically see the temporary exhibition of Cy Twombly’s works. Twombly’s works focused on the popular subject of war and its… Continue reading Philadelphia Museum of Art

Reflection by Gabrielle Chen ’18 Photograph by Taylor Chin ’18 Come From Away was a joyous, touching, time-warping, completely unexpected experience. Halfway through the show, 1.5 hours in total with no intermission, I found that I had forgotten who I was—that I was a Princeton student, that I wouldn’t get back to school until after… Continue reading Come from Away

Reflection by Gabrielle Chen ’18 Photograph by Gabrielle Chen ’18 I pitched this trip essentially on impulse—I’d never heard of Hélio Oiticica before, but interactive, large-scale installations have been on my mind lately and I thought To Organize Delirium might provide both insight and inspiration. The exhibition itself turned out to be wonderful, a sprawling,… Continue reading Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

Reflection by Ellie Maag ’19 Edwards Collective members Rachel Inman ’20, Pulkit Singh ‘20 and Ellie Maag ’19 at the Brooklyn Academy of Museum As someone who has not seen many dance performances, I was left speechless by Tanztheater Wuppertal’s “Cafe Müller” and “The Rite of Spring.”  “Cafe Müller” was quiet and violent in a controlled fashion. The… Continue reading Cafe Müller and Tanztheater Wuppertal

Pictured: RGS Maggie Kurkoski (front) and undergraduate members of the Edwards Collective The Edwards Collective kickstarted the 2017-18 academic year with Mural Arts Philadelphia! Our orientation trip took us to Center City, where we encountered a small fraction of the thousands of murals that dot this urban landscape. Mural Arts Philadelphia has served as a… Continue reading Mural Arts Philadelphia