Creative writingandanthropologydouble major Sydney Moses’25 never saw herself as a poet, but after a workshop with English professorChris Finkand encouragement fromMackey ChairLynda Barry, she decided to send a piece to a few literary journals. Now, she has two poems published, and she won’t be stopping anytime soon.
Led by recent alumni in art, dance, media studies, music, and theatre, students and alumni got together in aCareer Acceleratorsession to discuss strategies for the first few years after graduation, including finding internships, building a professional network, making money in the arts, applying to grad school, and more.
Washington, D.C., native María Aschenbrener’21 has been an artist for much of her life, focusing on ceramics and fabric art during her time at Beloit. Just a few months after completing her 9th semester, she landed a dream job at the Denver Art Museum. Her passions for art and community grew at Beloit and have made the Denver art scene feel like home.
“A founder of Bits and Pieces, a Fulbright scholar, and a writer walk into a bar.”
Not a sentence looking for a punchline — it’s actually a true statement, and it illustrates the variety of paths three Beloit alums took to form the band Honey Cellar, a folk rock quartet based in Chicago.