Student-Faculty Collaborations

Beautiful Deviancy: A Work of Fiction and Poetry Born Out of Activist Art

April 30, 2025

Collin Spinney ’16, a creative writing major, is examining this through an Emerson project, “Beautiful Deviancy: A Work of Fiction and Poetry Born Out of Activist Art.” Spinney is working under the supervision of Professor of English Naomi Guttman, examining the illegal urban art culture that has been evolving since the emergence of counterculture graffiti in the late sixties.