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Author of “The Donkey Elegies,” Nickole Brown

Green Drawing Room, Main
Brown is the author of The Donkey Elegies (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020); Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015), a biography in poems about Brown’s grandmother, which won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry; and Sister (Sibling Rivalry Press), which was first published in 2007 and reissued in 2018. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of nine poems published by Rattle, won the 2018 Rattle Prize. With Jessica Jacobs, she cowrote Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books, 2020). She is Hollins’ Spring 2024 Writer-in-Residence

Continuing Art Exhibitions

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Learning to Look: An Artist’s Perspective, through March 17 African American Quilts from the Collection of Carolyn Mazloomi, through April 14 2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III, through April 14 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-5 pm, Thursday 12-8 pm (closed Mondays) www.hollins.edu/museum

Nationally Known Psychologist and Author to Discuss “Hope in a Time of Monsters”

Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building
Professor and education expert Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of the new book Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, will speak in Hollins University’s Babcock Auditorium on Monday, March 4, at 9 a.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Cavanagh is the senior associate director for teaching and learning at Simmons University, where she also teaches in the psychology department as an associate professor of practice. Her research considers the interplay of emotions, motivation, learning, and quality of life. In addition to Mind Over

Women’s Role within the Eastern Siouan Tribes of Virginia’s Interior

Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Victoria Persinger Ferguson is an enrolled citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia. She serves on the Monacan Historic Resource Committee and is the program director for Historic Solitude/Fraction on the campus of Virginia Tech. She is a graduate of Marshall University and has 30 years of experience researching science methodologies and historical documentation to explain and support theories on the daily living habits of Eastern Siouan populations through the early European colonization period. Sponsored by Hollins University Distinguished Speaker Series and the department of gend

Author of “Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement,” Ethel Morgan Smith M.A. ’90

Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States
Smith is the author of three books: Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement (University Press of Mississippi 2023), Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany (CreateSpace 2012), and From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (University of Missouri Press 2000). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Green Mountains Review, Callaloo, STIR Journal, African American Review, The University Florida Journal, and Tusculum Review. Smith adapted From

Student Thesis Staged Reading: “Our Family in the Stars”

Hollins Theatre
Our Family in the Stars by Viktor Oler ’24, directed by Faolan Timm ’25 A Student Thesis Staged Reading
  • When: March 7 and 9 at 7:30 pm
  • Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage
  • What: Never stop dreaming about the potential future. When Olive decides to leave their family, they sneak onto a ship to exit from the port. However, they soon realize they have entered Captain Alexander’s ship, a captain feared throughout all the galaxies. The two are wary of one another until a spar

Student Thesis Staged Reading: “CORPS”

Hollins Theatre
CORPS: a canniballet in two acts by Aves Lewis ‘24, directed by Lynn-Lee Williamson ’26 A Student Thesis Staged Reading
    • When: March 8 at 7:30 pm and March 9 at 2 pm
    • Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage
    • What: Hunger will drive you wild. Joan Faucher is a first-year bal

Virginia Glee Club and Hollins Choir Concert

duPont Chapel
The Hollins combined choirs are joined by the Virginia Glee Club and the Valley Chamber Orchestra to present Haydn’s Te Deum. A fantastic opportunity to hear an entire community of musicians working together—you don’t want to miss it!

Student Recital

Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley
Come support our students as they perform for family and friends.

Conversations: Visiting Dance Artist Series with Todd Rhoades

Botetourt Reading Room 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States
Visiting guest artist and teacher Todd Rhoades will be in conversation with Dance Department Chair Jeffery Bullock about the current state of dance and contemporary culture. Thursday, March 14, 6 – 7 pm, Botetourt Reading Room Thursday, April 11, 6 – 7 pm, Botetourt Reading Room

Hollins 66th Annual Science Seminar

Babcock Auditorium, Dana Science Building
‘Survival of the Friendliest’ Necessitates ‘Survival of the Sexiest’ in the Evolution of Domestic Dogs Presented by: Alex Capaldi, Ph.D. Where: Babcock Auditorium When: Thursday, March 14, 7:30 pm