Hamilton: More Than Just Hip-Hop
Winner of 12 Tony Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s critically acclaimed musical, Hamilton: An American Musical, has been taking Broadway, and the world by storm. Since the show’s Broadway debut in 2015, the show has opened in Chicago, the West End in London, and is starting its first tour across the United States. Tickets for the show are sold at an astronomically high price and are in incredibly high demand, no matter which city or production you’re looking to go see. Upper balc
Is Failure Equal to Success? 8 Important Lessons for Young Musicians
Whether you’re a solo artist or in a band, all musicians experience an initial struggle upon bouncing onto their respective local music scenes. Some venues won’t book you because you have no music out, while others might be fine with you playing cover songs for hours. If you have no music out, how do you get good music out? How do you know if your music is good enough for a venue to accept it and book you? There are lots of little details that musicians must deal with, many w
Do you have a PASSION and PURPOSE in the arts?
“Passion is caring deeply about something. Purpose is doing something about what you deeply care about” - Edgar Papke Passion has many definitions and meaning when searching for a definition it comes up with strong and barely controllable emotion, a state or outburst of strong emotion, intense sexual love. All these things describe passion and we have all felt this emotion as some point in our lives and will become very familiar with this emotion over our life span. There are
7 Ways to get Involved in the Arts on Miami’s Campus
Miami University in Oxford, OH: Home to a great hockey team, a beautiful campus, and a renowned business school. When most people think of Miami, many think of a preppy, well-dressed student in the Farmer School of Business. However, Miami is more than just that. College is the place where you find yourself. You finally get to be who YOU want to be and do what YOU want to do. It’s a formative time in one’s life that should be used to the fullest, but, I often get the sense th
The Questions We Need to Ask About the Arts in the #MeToo Era
For those who have been living off the grid for the past year, the #MeToo Movement is a viral campaign to address sexual harassment and assault. The campaign encourages and supports survivors of sexual assault and interpersonal violence who come forward with their stories, and has exposed the long unspoken reality that sexual abuse is rampant in our society. The epidemic of assault has affected the personal and professional lives of an unspeakable number of people. The #MeToo
Echoes of Miami - An Interview with Tanner McCormick
It’s October and we are finally getting some much needed fall weather! It’s the perfect time for s'mores, hot apple cider and ghost stories. It is also National Arts and Humanities Month! This week I had the opportunity to talk to Tanner McCormick, one of the student writers and directors of Miami University Theatre Department’s Echoes of Miami, and got to learn what it’s been like to be involved with such a daunting project. Kaitlin: What is Echoes of Miami? Tanner: Echoes i
Notes from Field: AFTACON
When I began attending Miami University, I was incredibly nervous. As a nontraditional student who had attempted college twice before, I wondered whether or not the third time would be the charm. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life. While I had an interest in the arts and was looking at working for non-profit organizations, it never occurred to me that someone could pursue a career in the arts without being a performer or artist. Luckily for me, the regional campus
Arts + Technology: How Game Design is Shaping my Future as an Artist.
I’m the youngest person in my very large family, always surrounded by successful and amazing and beautiful people who are constantly achieving things I could never imagine doing myself. As the youngest, it has been difficult to project my voice in the crowd. I know I’m loved, but that doesn’t guarantee anything. The only way I could find my voice was through the arts, and arts management has helped me so much. And even though I’m in the computer science and engineering school
Competing at College Dance Team Nationals from an Arts Management Perspective
Being a naïve senior in high school, I remember trying out for the Miami University Dance Team. I remember knowing that they did styles I had never tried before but assumed I would be able to catch on fast; After all, one of my strengths had always been being able to pick up choreography. It didn’t end up being that easy. As a freshman at Miami University, I struggled with making the transitions to sharp, hitting movements and forcing myself to match the people next to me. It
The Art of Fashion
The fashion industry has a wide variety of careers, many of which people do not even recognize. As a co-major in fashion entrepreneurship, I do not know how to sew, nor do I look anything like Gigi Hadid or Tyra Banks. The fashion co-major offers three different tracks, including design, corporate business, and entrepreneurship. I chose to follow the latter. Fashion entrepreneurship has allowed me utilize both sides of the brain, the creative and the analytical. My goal is to