Senior Invited To Attend Princeton Symposium

The all-expenses-paid weekend is designed to give outstanding student artists and scholars from across the country a taste of what it means to explore the arts or humanities in a college setting. Attendees will participate in a variety of workshops and seminars and have opportunities to talk and interact with professors from across the university.

Yang and other attendees will consider topics such as the practical challenges and responsibilities of responding to art as a poet, painter, or performer; the historical and philosophical issues raised when considering how to tell one’s life story in the age of digital media; and connections between 19th-century poetry and hip hop.

Attendees must be nominated, and not all nominees are invited to the symposium. Yang was nominated because “she is an exceptional student in many areas,” says Springs Arts Department Chair Clay Colvin ’95, who worked with Associate Director and Dean of Academics David Noone and Director of College Advising Amelia Johnson to prepare the nomination.

“Her work in the studio shows a sense of experimentation as well as a sense of design and intentionality,” says Colvin. “She is confident and has a particular, compelling vision. I am always interested in what she's making and very excited for her to be able to be part of this symposium!”

Congratulations, Connie!