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Annual Publication Highlights Student Art, Literature

Elmira, NY (12/17/2018) — "Mashups," a print-on-demand book, features a collection of essays, poems, and artwork created by Elmira College students in the 2018 First Year Seminar class, "Mashups and Other Collisions in Art and Literature," this fall.

The students considered the perennial topics of gender stereotypes, love, and war, by reading and comparing literature such as Thornton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth and Mark Twain's writings based on his Diaries of Adam and Eve. Both of these authors relied on biblical stories from Genesis for inspiration, creating "mashups" of the future colliding with the past. Additionally, students viewed and wrote about art from the Elmira College collection and from exhibitions in the campus's George Waters Gallery. Their own artwork includes magazine collages inspired by the Surrealists as well as re-imagined scenes from Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, using a variation of the graphic novel form.

The complete book can be previewed through Blurb.com, and is available for purchase and digital download.

The First Year Seminar "Mashups" contributors include:

Sydney Coffin '22
Beth Collins '22
Adrianna Cornell '22
Carly Eldridge '22
Isaac Gottheil '22
Ariella Haas '22
Brianna Haviland '22
Jenny Heath '22
Stephanie Krom '22
Sydney Leonard '22
Mary McCafferty '22
Colin McLaughlin '22
Morgan Mordini '22
Rashaad Nurse '22
Evelyn Schoenberger '22
Joshua Smith '22
Cheyenne Stansfield '20

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This year's "Mashups" publication is now available online. The print-on-demand book includes essays, poems, and artwork created by students in the Fall 2018 First Year Seminar class.

Cheyenne

Stansfield