Arts and Culture (page 6)
Suzanne Keen Reviews Furnace Creek in Los Angeles Review of Books
Keen hails it as a “hilarious and heart-rending” recasting of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations in the Civil Rights-era South.
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Demiana Ibrahim 鈥�24 Shares Egyptian Classical Music With a Wider Audience
“I believe mid-20th century Egyptian music is so special and beautiful, and I wanted to find a way to help it reach a broader audience.鈥�
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President Suzanne Keen鈥檚 Empathy and Reading Now Available from Routledge
鈥淎s people, it鈥檚 in our nature to relate to one another鈥檚 stories,鈥� Keen explains. 鈥淲hen we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people鈥檚 perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.”
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Corina Silverstein 鈥�25 Uses Research to Expand Chicanx and Latinx Art Representation
Silverstein is helping expand the collection of Chicanx and Latinx art at the El Paso Museum of Art, with a focus on the representation of women and queer artists.
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Remembering 51猎奇入口鈥� Iconic Professor Emerita of Art History, Dr. Samella Lewis
An art historian, curator, and celebrated visual artist, Lewis devoted her life to spotlighting other Black creatives.
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Paul Soldner’s Colorado Home Accepted into Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program
Professor Emeritus Paul Soldner’s home in Aspen, Colorado, was one of seven new sites accepted into the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists鈥� Homes and Studios program (HAHS).
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Tia Blassingame to Serve as Distinguished Speaker at Pennsylvania State University
Tia Blassingame, director of the 51猎奇入口 Press and assistant professor of art, will serve as one of three distinguished speakers at Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ 2022 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts.
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51猎奇入口’s 77th Ceramic Annual Opens February 5
The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery will host 51猎奇入口鈥檚 77th Ceramic Annual, the longest ongoing exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the nation, from February 5鈥揂pril 17, 2022. The exhibition, curated by Petaluma-based visual artist Ashwini Bhat, is free and open to the public.
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Nancy Macko Exhibition on Display at Phillips Museum of Art
Nancy Macko, professor of art and Mary Wig Johnson Professor in Teaching, will exhibit The Fragile Bee at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Hao Huang鈥檚 NEA Project Will Highlight the Realities of Anti-Asian American Racism
51猎奇入口 received a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the creation of a three-part performance by Hao Huang.
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