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    Creative & Performing Arts

    Paula Modersohn-Becker’s ‘Landscape under Trees’

    Highlights from the Grinnell College Museum of Art collection, with expert commentary from Associate Director Dan Strong.
  2. tossing of caps 2025

    A World of Promise: The Class of 2025 Commencement in Photos

    May 20, 2025
    Grinnell College honored the Class of 2025 with a joyful and heartfelt Commencement ceremony, held indoors for the first time since 1996 due to forecasted storms. This photo essay captures the energy and emotion as over 400 graduates from 46 states and 20 countries marked the end of their Grinnell journeys and the start of new chapters ahead.
  3. Students in Professor David Harrison’s Spring 2025 advanced French seminar, Molière: Performance and Adaptation

    Grinnell Students Pitch Ideas on Molière Play to Charles Newell of Court Theatre at the University of Chicago

    May 20, 2025
    Students in Professor David Harrison’s Spring 2025 advanced French seminar, Molière: Performance and Adaptation, pitched theatrical production concepts to a nationally renowned theatre director in Chicago.
  4. student with diploma

    Grinnell College Celebrates Commencement for the Class of 2025

    May 19, 2025
    Surrounded by faculty, staff, family, and friends, over 400 graduates walked across the stage, symbolizing the culmination of their academic journeys and the beginning of new chapters ahead.
  5. 1882 students hold signs about the cyclone that destroyed campus just days before their graduation

    Three-Minute History: Tornadoes Destroy Grinnell College but Commencement Goes On

    May 19, 2025
    On June 17, 1882, two tornadoes converged on Grinnell, destroying the college campus and killing almost 40 people. Three days later, Commencement went on despite the destruction.
  6. Penny Bender Sebring and Charles Ashby Lewis

    $1 Million Gift Gives CLS a Flexible Foundation for Student Support

    May 18, 2025
    The latest gift from Penny Bender Sebring ’64, H’15, a former Grinnell trustee, and her husband, Charles Ashby Lewis H’15, establishes an endowment that will provide CLS greater flexibility and ensure it can readily embrace new opportunities for supporting students.
  7. Francisco Pantoja Martinez, class of 2025, received the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award.

    Francisco Pantoja Martinez ’25 Receives the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award

    May 18, 2025
    The Award was established to honor Celina’s courageously hopeful life and legacy and bestows a cash prize. Celina Karp Biniaz, class of 1952, endowed the award to support a graduating senior with two key intentions: One, to aid students like her who had to overcome obstacles to obtain their education. Two, to recognize and support such students who wish to pursue careers teaching young people OR working for organizations or governmental entities whose core mission focuses on the education and welfare of young people.
  8. Group of students in Prague on a Global Learning Program trip

    Exploring the Intersection of Dance and Language

    May 15, 2025
    The Theorizing Dance and Language courge, co-taught by Professor Cynthia Hansen and Professor Emerita Celeste Miller, spent spring break in Prague exploring the cross-disciplinary collaboration between linguistics and choreography.
  9. Elizabeth Collinger on mountain

    Elizabeth’s Journey

    May 12, 2025
    Elizabeth Collinger ’21 explored her passion for music, language, synchronized swimming, and more during her journey that took her all around the midwestern United States and down through South America.
  10. Five men in white suits and red shirts hold wired microphones as they sing to the crowd

    Live and in Concert!

    May 08, 2025
    Exploring and preserving the history of concerts at Grinnell

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