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Cynthia Ann McKinney to be the Sojourner Truth Lecturer at The Claremont Colleges

Claremont, Calif. (September 25, 2007)—The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies of The Claremont Colleges has announced that Cynthia Ann McKinney will be the twenty-third keynote speaker of the annual Sojourner Truth Lecture on Thursday, October 11 at Pitzer College. McKinney, an internationally renowned advocate for human rights, voting rights and holding government accountable, was elected [Read More...]
December 13, 2013
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Pitzer College Professor Invites the Public to Online Class to Learn About YouTube, the Popular Videosharing Website

Claremont, Calif. (September 4, 2007)—Today Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies, and enthusiastic students from The Claremont Colleges will commence a pedagogic experiment focusing on the potentials and limits of digital media culture. Her course meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1:10 p.m. The public is invited to watch the class or [Read More...]
December 13, 2013
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Pitzer College Named Among Nation’s Best in 2009 Edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges

(July 29, 2008) – Pitzer College has been named one of the nation’s best colleges and number one in the category of Race/Class Interaction in the 2009 edition The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges. For undergraduates at Pitzer “progressive learning” and academic flexibility abound. Students tend to be “motivated” and there is a strong sense [Read More...]
July 29, 2008
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Emerging Artist Lizabeth Eva Rossof ’95 “I Witness” on Display at Lenzner Art Gallery

Claremont, Calif. (December 20, 2007) Pitzer alumna Lizabeth Eva Rossof ’95, who was featured in Takashi Murakami’s 2007 selection of emerging artists in GEISAI, Miami creates experimental art that is playfully provocative and visually arresting and includes collaborative performance, public intervention and site-specific installations. Rossof engages a wider audience in her ongoing dialogue on social, political and environmental [Read More...]
December 20, 2007
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SPELL: Sandeep Mukherjee Works on Display in Nichols Gallery

Claremont, Calif. (December 20, 2007) Known for his mural-scale, lushly colored paintings, engineer-turned-artist Sandeep Mukherjee has concocted an exhibition of paintings and drawings made specifically for the Pitzer Art Galleries. Serene and hypnotic, this exhibition is appropriately named Spell. Spell, however, is a striking departure from previous exhibitions by the artist. Withheld is the rich [Read More...]
December 20, 2007
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ANTARCTICA: Joyce Campbell, Anne Noble and Connie Samaras Antarctica is Not the Continent You Have Come to Imagine

Claremont, Calif. (November 1, 2007)— Antarctica will be the subject of the largest photographic exhibition ever shown at Pitzer College. It will be the first to take place simultaneously at the campus’ Nichols and Lenzer Family Art galleries from November 17, 2007 through January 12, 2008. Antarctica, curated by Ciara Ennis, brings together the work of three extraordinary [Read More...]
November 1, 2007