Daniel Barolsky
Daniel prepares students for life after college by helping them attend to those artistic skills that are transferable to networking, presenting themselves, and finding communities.
Careers in the arts take many forms
What is your dream career?
From performing to directing to writing to broadcasting and much more, arts opportunities span an array of fields.
Will you turn your passion for art history into advocating for arts accessibility like Claire Aichholzer’15?
Or maybe you will become a New York Times best-selling author after double majoring in creative writing and acting like Madeline Roux’08.
Perhaps you’ll continue to perform on stage while exploring how theatre can be used as a therapeutic tool like Alice Gehrke’16.
Chart your own path
Faculty mentors, alumni, and fellow students help you expand your creative practice. Through coursework, student groups, work experience, and other opportunities, you learn to tell stories via your preferred medium and then take those skills into any career you pursue.
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Your Mentors
Alicia Bailey
Alicia works with students in the scene shop to help bring shows to life. Students not only learn practical skills necessary for technical theatre, but also how to be more sustainable in the work they’re doing.
Scott Espeseth
Scott Espeseth advises students in pursuing opportunities in the visual arts, including exhibitions, internships, and graduate studies.
Christopher Fink
Chris advises students in creative writing, especially fiction writing and nature writing. Chris also help students pursue publishing and literary editing opportunities.
Chris Johnson
As director of the dance program, Chris works with students on dance performance and choreography as well as somatics and kinesiology.
Amy L. Sarno
Amy Sarno is a director/deviser interested in the impacts theatre has on social change. Most recently her work has focused on verbatim and documentary performance. Sarno enjoys mentoring student projects that create dialogue in the community.
Gina T’ai
Gina prepares students for careers in the arts by helping them build skills in performance, arts administration, and entrepreneurship.
Shelbi Wilkin
Shelbi mentors students in theatre design and technology specializing in costume design, cultural representation onstage, fashion history, and sustainable fashion practices.
George Williams
Professor Williams is a working artist who is committed to teaching students the Business of Art alongside traditional and new media techniques.
Career Channels News
Mentoring: an essential element of success
Corrine Wiesner ’14, who transitioned from an Economics and Dance double major to a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Microbiology at UNC-Chapel Hill, found lifetime mentorship with Beloit professors to be extremely important and useful to her professional selections.
Nov1st
Arts Channel Fall Advising Session
Arts Channel Advising session for students interested in Arts/Music/THDA/Media Studies courses/opportunities combined with a discussion about how the arts relate to the college’s ILOs.
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Blackademics shines light on Black women’s experiences in academia
Guest director Jerrell Henderson describes Beloit College’s production of Blackademics as “an intimate story about the experiences of Black women on a college campus.” He …
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