Penn Arts Ambassadors is a program of University Life Arts Initiatives.
Use your social connections to build a stronger arts community at Penn! Be a Penn Arts Ambassador. All you need to do is sign up and make a commitment to spread the word. You will receive a weekly email of arts and culture events happening at Penn, just forward it to friends, your roommates, hall mates, student group, sorority or whomever. Please also Like the Arts@Penn Facebook page and share events. Check out the Arts@Penn web page for an ongoing list of arts and culture events, programs and organizations at Penn. Arts Ambassadors will also get first notice of special events, openings, deals and more both on and off campus. Want to do even more? You can apply for an arts grant to support art making or art outing with your group or fellow residents. Just email University Life Arts Initiatives for more information.
Thanks to the 2011-2012 Arts Ambassadors:
Noah Levine is a sophomore Theatre Arts major, who has performed across campus in theatre, dance, and improv comedy. Coming to Philadelphia from Marietta, Georgia, he's impressed by the accessibility of the arts on and around Penn's campus. Currently, Noah is a member of the West Philly Swingers, the Underground Shakespeare Company, and PennULTRA.
Amalya Lehmann is a junior studying music and cognitive science, and has shown her commitment to arts programming for many years. In High School, she founded a music appreciation society with several members, who put on multi-media assemblies celebrating a range of composers. At Penn, she pioneered NSO Preceptorials (many with arts-based themes), organizes several year-round arts-based Preceptorials, and serves as the Arts Ambassador liasion to the Rodin College House Council. In addition, Amalya serves as a Penn campus representative to the Philadelphia Orchestra, and serves as their official student blogger. As a violinist, Amalya plays chamber music with the Penn Chamber Music Society as well as performing solo. Besides these arts-based activities, Amalya is heavily involved in the Orthodox Community at Penn, serving on the Social and Scholar-in-Residence committees. When she is not busy raising arts awareness, Amalya enjoys listening to Mozart and Rossini operas, and eating chocolate.
Allison Zuckerman is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania and is majoring in Fine Arts and minoring in French. Throughout her time at Penn, Allison has committed to integrating the arts into her every day life through academics, social groups, on-campus publications, and in solo and group exhibitions. She spent her past summer at Yale's artist residency in Norfolk, Connecticut and spent her sophomore summer working on an Arts Grant awarded to her in honor of Arts and the City Year at Penn. Allison plans on continuing her studies of the fine arts in graduate studies after this year.
Davis Butner is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, double majoring in Music and Architecture. Davis is a member of various string ensembles including Penn Chamber and Baroque Ensemble, and has participated in a number of performing arts groups including the Penn Symphony, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and Penn Singers pit orchestra. This year he started a classical music society on campus. Through various student-driven initiatives including organizing outdoor chamber concerts, starting a classical radio program on Penn's broadcasting station (Penn Encore Classics on www.wqhs.org), organizing a college music mentoring program, and promoting various classical events within the city of Philadelphia, Penn Encore Society strives to form a larger community for classical music appreciation within Penn's student body. For more information, please contact penn.encore@gmail.com. Davis is also an eZseatU representative for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a member of the Tune-Up Philly music mentoring program.
Andrea Li is a junior majoring in Political Science and minoring in Legal Studies & History. Despite her core studies limiting her artistic abilities to the sculpting of essays and appreciation of textbook readings, she has been actively involved with on-campus art groups and enjoys exploring local galleries in her spare time.
Afuah Frimpong is a sophomore from Doral, Florida majoring in Science, Technology and Society with minors in Fine Arts and French. She enjoys being at Penn and in Philadelphia where many art venues and festivities are conveniently located. Through working at the Greenfield Intercultural Center and being in the Art Ambassadors program, Afuah is finding ways to incorporate all forms of art (spoken, written, fine, performing, visual, etc.) in her daily activities and projects on campus. She is a second-year member of African Rhythms Drum and Dance Troupe and in the Penn Art Club.
Lindsay Warrenburg is a junior majoring in Music and following a pre-med track. She loves the opportunities that studying at Penn and living in Philadelphia offer for music. Although she hopes to attend medical school after graduating from Penn, she is currently planning to study music in Europe for a year before she enters med school. Lindsay plays harpsichord in the Baroque Ensemble, is a member of ZTA, works with SHOOP, and is in the process of becoming a trained buddy for ActionAids. In her free time, Lindsay loves to go to art museums, visit sculpture gardens, and listen to classical music.