School of Liberal Arts News & Events
News
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Merrimack Alumnus, Artist Brings Together Sport and Activism
Eamon White ’13 is an artist, activist and educator whose work has been featured nationally. His portraits have gone viral online and, as a former football player and present-day coach, he is well known for hand-painting cleats and sneakers for players in the NFL.
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Assistant Professor Appointed to Design Museum Foundation Council
VPA Professor Dan Vlahos shares his design expertise as a Design Museum Council member for the next three years.
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Student Artists Reflect On COVID-19: It’s OK To Not Be OK
Merrimack student artists kicked off a new exhibition, “It’s OK To Not Be OK,” with a virtual opening on Friday, April 2. Housed in McCoy Gallery, the show features work from a newly offered fall 2020 course and grapples with everything from life during the pandemic, to civil rights and the rise of blind patriotism in the U.S. The exhibition will run through Friday, April 16.
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Merrimack Professor’s Short Story Collection Makes Top Fiction Lists
Creative writing professor Emma Duffy-Comparone talks about her debut book, “Love Like That,” which was named to Vogue magazine’s Best Books to Read in 2021 list.
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Bring on the Merrimack College Marching Band
Merrimack has launched its inaugural marching band to accompany the College’s Division I athletic program.
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Events
September 23, 2021
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VIRTUAL: Poetry Reading and Q&A with Richard Blanco
Selected by President Obama as the fifth inaugural poet, Richard Blanco is the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. He is the author of the poetry collections, How To Love a Country, City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, Looking for The Gulf Motel, and the memoirs, For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. He is the first Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets.
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Graduate Virtual Information Session
Join us for a Virtual Information Session to learn more about our graduate programs, hear directly from program directors, and chat with admissions representatives.
September 25, 2021
October 5, 2021
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IN PERSON: Reading and Q&A with Randall Horton
Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir (2015), Poet-in-Residence at the Civil Right Corpse, and most recently a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation. He is the author of the poetry collections, Pitch Dark Anarchy, The Definition of Place, The Lingua France of Ninth Street, and most recently, . His new memoir, Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays is forthcoming in 2022.
Randall has appeared on C-Span, NPR, CTNPR and countless journals, magazines and radio shows. He is also on the Advisory Board of Pen America’s Pen Prison Writing Program.
