Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Assistant Professor of Media and Society Lisa Patti speaks with students during Media Industries and Alternatives in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

On the day of its delivery, Assistant Professor of Music Mark Olivieri plays the new Steinway grand piano in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

This Week in Photos pays tribute to the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with the first anniversary of its opening. Located at the heart of campus, the new 65,000-square-foot facility has brought together music, dance, theatre and media and society in a unified academic space for the first time in HWS history. The photos in this week’s gallery trace some of the accomplishments of the past year.

Major donors join President Mark D. Gearan for the ribbon cutting ceremony in January 2016, officially opening the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts. The Board of Trustees unanimously decided to name the building in honor of Mark and Mary Herlihy Gearan.

Grant Shinegawa '18 sings during a Chorale performance on opening night.

In her class “Medieval and Renaissance Music History,” Assistant Professor of Music Katherine Walker discusses the development of polyphony (multiple voices singing independent lines) during the ninth century in the Roman Catholic Church.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Chris Hatch speaks with Audio Technician Kelly Walker during rehearsal for HWS Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Natalie Young ’18, Luis Figueroa ’18, Mimi Scott ’16 and Nick Stewart ’15 perform in McDonald Theatre during a rehearsal for “Twelfth Night,” the inaugural theatre production in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

Professor of Media and Society Lester Friedman speaks to students in his class Imagining the West” in the Fish Screening Room of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

In front of the Gearan Center, Kelly Mauch ‘17 works on an assignment for her class “Digital Rhetoric and Writing with New Technology” taught by Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Ben Ristow.

Davente Gilreath, of Garth Fagan Dance, leads a master lesson for students in Assistant Professor of Dance Kelly Johnson’s class in the Deming Theatre of the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts.

On the first day of classes in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, students in a Laban studies class listen to Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance Colleen Wahl Culley ’06.

Nick Bingaman '17 completes a pass during Hobart hockey’s 4-4 tie against Trinity College. The team is currently 7-2-3.

Ben Greiner '18 lines up a shot during the Statesmen's 4-2 win over the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons.

Vincent Russo '18 buries the puck in the back of the net during Hobart's 3-1 victory over Babson College.

Kiley Fewster ’18 fires a shot goal against Connecticut College during William Smith ice hockey’s 1-1 tie with the Camels. The Herons are currently 3-7-2.