Arts & Humanities

June 22, 2026

Bibliotherapy: Summer Reading

Librarians often give the best recommendations. In the first installment of a new series, we asked some of Reed's own book experts to offer their summer reading suggestions.

By Cara Nixon

March 23, 2026

Staying Demented

How Barry Hansen ’63, a.k.a. Dr. Demento, built a legacy of lyrical laughter.

March 23, 2026

Never Better?

Arianna Rebolini ’12 on surviving suicidality.

March 23, 2026

Weaving Joy

Selorm Fefeti ’11 is fusing fashion and cultural preservation with his New York/Ghana-made clothing brand.

March 23, 2026

Curation as Creation

Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder ’91 reflects on her retirement and a life of enriching Reed’s artistic community.

March 23, 2026

A Kinesthetic Force

For Tango Berretín owner Alex Krebs ’99, the beauty of tango lies not in how it looks, but how it feels.

March 23, 2026

The Sound of History

How Anesu Ndoro ’21 is amplifying the music of the Ndau people.

March 23, 2026

A Musical Rescue Mission

All around the world, heritage music is endangered. Zack Youcha ’21 is helping communities save theirs.

March 20, 2026

In Barnard Country

A thesis topic discovery and a life’s work in the poetry of Mary Barnard ’32.

March 20, 2026

Forging Kinship with the Worlds Around Us

In an ecological creative writing class, students get up close to the shells of pteropods, a whimsical sea snail under threat.

March 12, 2026

A Chance for Exploration: Reed Zine Community Combines Art and Inclusivity

Recent Zine & Arts programming has centered the work of Asian American artists, blending art and belonging on and off the Reed campus.

November 24, 2025

Into the Infinite

How Bill Witherspoon ’65 immortalized his desert journeys.

November 24, 2025

What Is a Reedie, Anyway?

Meet twelve graduates from the class of ’25.

November 24, 2025

In English 220, Professor Maureen Harkin invites her class to examine poet and painter William Blake’s illuminated texts—hand-colored etchings which represent both joy and struggle in 18th-century England.