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

At Goshen Theater from Oct. 18-26, the featured show will take you back in time to 1930s Germany, where the Cabaret musical takes place. Leif Billings ’25, and Brenton Abram-Copenhaver, Goshen College’s technical director, were casted of the cast of the Cabaret production at Goshen Theater. Cabaret showcases the story of an American writer, Cliff Bradshaw, who traveled to Berlin, Germany to work on his novel. Throughout the musical, themes of the rise of Nazis, escapism and love are portrayed. The message of the show leaves the audience thinking about the world today. Billings said, “It’s a heavy show. There...

By Mafe Aguilar Vargas • October 23, 2025 • Arts

This photo is meant to represent the faithfulness and loyalty we keep for the United States and its people: how a simple flag such as ours can carry such a big meaning. Regardless of what you believe or think, in a political manner or spiritual, we are all one, and this land is ours, one way or another. This photo was taken shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

By Adonahi Chavez Garcia • October 9, 2025 • Arts

I am a first generation college student, born to undocumented  immigrants who give everything they can and more so that I can succeed. I can never thank my family, friends, and community enough for helping shape me into the man I am today. Viva Mexico. Y Viva La Raza. Being a Latino here in the United States is an incredible thing to be proud of. It means you are the result of unimaginable determination and sacrifice out of nothing but love. Being Hispanic means being shaped by love. However, being shaped by love does not always protect us from hate....

By Javier Reyes • October 9, 2025 • Arts

This is a pencil/charcoal portrait drawing depicting singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel, one of Mexico’s most beloved artists. Until his passing in 2016, Gabriel’s  music shaped Mexico’s cultural identity. His song, “Amor Eterno” (Eternal Love), is a moving tribute to his mother and became an anthem of remembrance and grieving of loss.  Juan Gabriel was an inspiring soul whose artistry lives on through the younger generations of today.

By Janet Molina Rodriguez • October 9, 2025 • Arts

What began as a simple photography assignment became a picture with more depth and meaning that I hold deep. The flowers were center pieces to a very anticipated event in my sister’s life and I got to be part of that special moment. The flowers were hand built by my younger sister and placed on every table as a centerpiece. Each rose, leaf and stem were thoughtfully added to create a beautiful bouquet. This image is not just flowers, they are centerpieces to a celebration stuck in a moment of time.

By Marisol Diaz • October 9, 2025 • Arts

When I was young and would stumble upon a cookie tin while searching through drawers, I would pop the lid off, struggling, trembling, without patience as the lid would always feel as if it was sealed with glue. However, I knew it would all be worth it after getting my hands on the butter cookies it concealed. But to my disappointment, it would never have cookies. Instead, it was used as a container for needles, pins, and sewing supplies. I never understood the reason, until my present years I realized how resistant those containers would be! Disappointment through reused cookie...

By Frida Luna Gallegos • October 9, 2025 • Arts

Food, community and bilingual dialogue were center stage at the Umble Center last weekend in “Las Neuvas Tamaleras,” Goshen College’s Homecoming one-act production. The play centered on three friends, Sylvia, Josie and Patsy as they struggled, and ultimately succeeded, at making tamales together. While this was happening, Doña Juanita and Doña Mercedes, a pair of spirits from days gone by, watched over them and attempted to aid in their culinary endeavors. Amy Budd, associate professor of theater and the show’s producer, described the play as being about “gossiping while you cook” and “the power of hanging out with our friends.”...

By Teo Kingsley • October 9, 2025 • Arts