Advocates, in partnership with the Literary Activism Club and the women and gender studies department, hosted the fifth annual drag show in Umble Center on Saturday. The show featured three professional drag queens: Natosha Salad, Lili Xtravaganza and Beba Hollywood. Salad acted as the night’s master of ceremonies. After she performed her first number, she explained that this year the professional drag queens had each incorporated a new element into their performances.  “With current events, we are going to include our cultures in tonight’s show,” she said. “We all need to be proud of where we come from, because America...

By Lindsey Graber • February 12, 2026 • Arts

This is an acrylic painting that I made for my Painting II class this semester. The initial prompt was very broad, allowing me to paint whatever I wanted. Over the summer, I came up with a composition that I had been dying to paint, a female fish freshly cut open at the belly. I wanted this to symbolize how women are viewed by those who are pro-life, prioritizing the life of the baby rather than the mother. To have this come across, I wanted to make sure the roe of the salmon were shown to have it be the focal...

By Atty Montague • December 4, 2025 • Arts

For this project, I was told to either recreate an artist’s art piece or to replicate the art style for something else. My goal was to replicate the artstyle of Trevor Henderson, an online artist who has really inspired me to draw what I like. Since the new show “It: Welcome to Derry” came out recently and watched it with my dad, I decided to paint Pennywise the clown from the movies and show with Henderson’s style. Since he’s a digital painting artist, I was a little concerned about how I’ll be recreating his style. Instead, I decided to lean...

By Payton Gritzmaker • December 4, 2025 • Arts

I collaborated with Adrian Delgadillo for this project, drawing from his rich photography to create an acrylic painting that seeks to explore and expand Adrian’s gorgeous display of captured light.

By Jacob Dixon • December 4, 2025 • Arts

This drawing is a recreation of Big Fish Eat Little Fish by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that I finished recently. Bruegel is a Renaissance artist whose work I had studied a couple of times when I was in elementary and high school as part of the artist study that my curriculum did. This engraving was originally falsely attributed to Hieronymus Bosch by the publisher because of its absurdity. I really enjoy the surreal, quite silly, style of Bruegel’s more fantastical engravings. The flying fish is my personal favorite, but there are many whimsical creatures to be found!

By Isabel Woodcox • December 4, 2025 • Arts

As the Christmas season draws near, Goshen College music ensembles are working to prepare one of their biggest events: A Festival of Carols. The event opens on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall. FOC will continue throughout the weekend, with shows at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. The Sunday performance will also be livestreamed. The Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir, Vox Profundi, Voices of the Earth and the Shout for Joy Children’s Choir will all come together to perform Christmas carols and other holiday classics. The concert is based on a traditional English church service, and while...

By Isabel Woodcox • December 4, 2025 • Arts

On Nov. 23, Sam Stoltzfus, music major, will be giving her senior composition recital. In addition to showcasing her composition skills, the performance will also feature Stoltzfus as a vocalist alongside a number of Goshen College students and community members. The recital will be at 4 p.m. in Rieth Recital Hall. The performance will be split into two distinct sections. The first half, described by Stoltzfus as being “rather heavy,” will focus on themes of violence, loneliness and the cyclical nature of Stoltzfus’s creative process. In the second half of the recital, the focus will shift to dragons. Stoltzfus has...

By Teo Kingsley • November 20, 2025 • Arts

Randy Horst, ‘86: “I work in triptics… I work in threes because I like how [the art] interacts with each other and captures more than one aspect of a given moment, emotion or different aspects of the narrative.” Merrill Krabill, ‘79: “I’ve done a series of pieces over the last number of years. Things that have interested me are the contrast between something that feels earthly and mortal… which can be a bird or a sort of passageway… even though it’s mortal it’s still beautiful.” Photo by Aaliah Higareda for The Record Jordan Kauffman, ‘11: “When I look at photography,...

By Aaliah Higareda • November 20, 2025 • Arts

Reporting done by Mireya Alemán Heading east on the Lincoln Highway in Goshen, tucked behind a small plot of trees, sits a wooden cabin. Once you travel up the gravel driveway, an attached garage protrudes out from the left side of the house. The power tools and personal protective gear inside seem to be those of a blue-collar man. After browsing the garage further, the kiln, glazed mugs and throwing wheel reveal a different use. This is the home of Trevor Daugherty, a ceramic artist, and the owner and co-publisher of the magazine Edible Michiana. In fact, the house is...

By Eliza Alemán • November 20, 2025 • Arts

Meaning: I worked from a still life I set up over the summer. The windowsill is in my childhood room, the flowers are from the flower farm I work at in Ohio. I wanted to work on a creative way to slow down during a busy summer and appreciate the beauty that I live around. I love being home with my family and I wanted to create a piece that when looked at evoked the same feelings of comfort in the familiar while still challenging me to grow and look inward! I have this piece hanging in my apartment so...

By Rosemary Baer • November 13, 2025 • Arts

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, Sauder Concert Hall had multiple local high school choirs come together for Goshen College’s annual Treblefest Concert.  Each choir sang two to three songs where the concert then concluded with two combined pieces. There were 150 high school students in total; around half of the students had never been in Sauder Concert Hall.  GC’s Voices of the Earth choir, conducted by H. Roz Woll, associate professor of music, sang “Ajde Jano,” “Ndandihleli” and “Organize, Agitate, Educate!” The mass pieces were “Courage” and “Plena.” “Ajde Jano” and “Plena” are both pieces about dance and the joy of...

By William Mcfadden • November 13, 2025 • Arts

My favorite part about being a student at GC is looking closely at different aspects of the environment on campus. Everything from the spiders to flowers to trees are always worth taking a closer look at. Taking time to sit outside and observe the world around me and be able to draw it is so soothing and it’s a great brain break!

By Mireya Alemán • November 2, 2025 • Arts

The fall choral concert made audience members chuckle and ended in a standing ovation this year. The repertoire included a mix of classical and contemporary arrangements, and even alluded to current social and political challenges. H. Roz Woll, Voices of the Earth choir director, said her final repertoire often “speaks to some aspect of human life.” The concert opened with Vox Profundi singing “The Music of Living.” Their second song, “My Spirit Looks to God Alone,” was arranged by Derrick Fox, a composer of Michigan State. Scott Hochstetler, choral director for Vox Profundi gave the piece a brief introduction: “There...

By Eliza Alemán • October 30, 2025 • Arts

According to BBC News, at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19, four thieves arrived at the Louvre Museum in Paris, equipped with masks, power tools, and a mechanical furniture lift. Eight minutes later, the thieves fled the scene on scooters with eight priceless pieces of jewelry, some of the last remaining of France’s Crown Jewels, worth about 88 million euros, or $102 million. BBC reports that no security cameras monitored the balcony where the thieves broke in and, though wider museum alarms sounded, the localized alarms in the Galerie d’Apollon, where the jewels were displayed, had recently been broken. These...

By Lindsey Graber • October 30, 2025 • Arts

The city of Goshen boasts a lively community of artists  who specialize in a variety of different mediums across a vast spectrum of creativity. To help provide these artists with the space and resources they need to pursue their craft, artists’ guilds have sprung up over time. The Goshen Clay Artists’ Guild provides a space for artists to come together and share their work, through both quarterly classes and guild membership. The guild was founded in 1998 when a group of artists wanted to create a place where they could share ideas and work collaboratively. Current guild members range from...

By Isabel Woodcox • October 23, 2025 • Arts