Eager students filled the courtyard at Pomona College to participate in the mini canvas paintings, play some of the latest video games and watch the 2008 art documentary “Cool School,” all presented by “Art After Hours.”

Campus and community arts events for the week of Sept. 30, 2011.

Laughter, gasps and sobs are all that can communicate Kevin Greene’s senior thesis performance of Paula Vogel’s “The Baltimore Waltz” put on by the theater department.

Scripps College is hosting a number of exhibits in honor of the 70th anniversary of its founding, including “Women over 25,” which honored women who have been printing by letterpress for 25 years or more and are continuing to do so.

Laura Marling and Alessi’s Ark brought the West London folk scene to a crowd of about 200 eager fans at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Troubadour.

Campus and community arts events for the week of Sept. 23, 2011.

Reed Gratz, professor of music, and Gary Colby, professor of photography, collaborated to create a night of music, meditation and a slideshow to honor the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Sunday.

If you were deaf and relied solely on your vision, you may have mistaken the five-piece English-based band the Horrors for portraying witches dancing around a pot of boiling fog on stage for an early Halloween special at 7 p.m. Monday at the Glass House in Pomona.

A mother struggling to make ends meet, a recently widowed army wife and the economic decline in the Chesapeake Bay. These subjects are part of the humanity that Katherine Frey captures in her exhibition “American Dream.”