Arts Institute Blog

The arts are and always have been a form of communication.  But they can also be intensely personal, tapping into not just our deepest thoughts but also our deepest feelings.

Hence this blog:  discussion about the arts tends to be lively wherever it occurs.  But we wanted to create a forum that would allow members of the USC arts community—artists, would-be artists, and arts patrons at the University and in the larger community—to talk with each other about the arts in ways that are different from the conversations we might typically have in an arts classroom.

In the first place, the blog is informal.  No professor will be judging the cogency or the syntax of your remarks and assigning you a grade accordingly.  Even more importantly, because this is a virtual discussion, we hope you will feel free to speak from the heart as well as the mind about what the arts mean in our lives.  We welcome your responses to previous postings and your own suggestions for discussion topics.  We encourage creativity, curiosity, and lots of thought-provoking questions.  And, in keeping with the mission of the Arts Institute, we are particularly interested in your thoughts about the arts in an interdisciplinary context.  What common goals, themes, and challenges do all arts disciplines share?  And what happens when artists from different disciplines work together to create new kinds of art?

The Arts Institute blog is written by members of the University’s arts community and administered by the AI’s web editor.  There are new bloggers every semester.  If you are interested in nominating a particular student, faculty member, or staff member to blog for us, or if you have comments or suggestions about the blog, please contact the web editor, Leslie Haynsworth, at haynswor@mailbox.sc.edu.