News

• October 30, 2019

  Former Penn Student Charles Addams’ Creations Back on the Silver Screen

  Inspiration for many a Halloween costume, the delightfully macabre Addams Family is back in movie theaters in a new 3D computer-animated film, more than 80 years after the characters were created by artist and former Penn student Charles Addams.

• October 26, 2019

  Weeklong Focus on Indigenous Languages Organized by the Quechua Language Program and Kelly Writers House

  The six days of events, supported by a grant from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, will promote indigenous language use in the Americas through an academic symposium, literary nights, film screenings, roundtables, visits to the Penn Museum, and the opportunity for people to record the language of their ancestors.

• October 22, 2019

  WXPN, Monument Lab, Carolyn Lazard Among 2019 Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Grant and Fellowship Recipients

  The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage announced its 2019 Grant Awards. Among the Project Grant recipients are WXPN and Monument Lab (through a collaboration with the Village of Arts and Humanities). Carolyn Lazard (GFA '19) also received a Pew Fellowship.

• October 21, 2019

  Revealing ‘Storytelling Pockets’ in the Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

  Paul Hendrickson has led a life full of discoveries, during two decades as a senior lecturer in Penn’s English Department, and three decades as a reporter and feature writer mainly for The Washington Post. Along the way he has also researched and written six nonfiction books; his latest and longest released this month is “Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright.”

• October 17, 2019

  Seeking Student Advisory Group (Paid): Activist Poster Program

  Common Press seeks 5 – 8 student advisors to participate in planning of a February series of programs focused on activist poster art. Supported by Sachs Arts, this program will bring Josh MacPhee of the Justseeds Collective to campus for a series of workshops with students. Additional components include an exhibit of a Justseeds portfolio and a panel discussion with several artists creating activist work. The student advisory committee will meet monthly from late October to early February to contribute to program planning, advising on workshop structure, outreach, portfolio selection for exhibit, and planning panel participants and panel discussion questions. Commitment will also include some email discussion in between meetings. We hope that Committee Members will be key participants in the resulting programs and/or will work to solicit student participants. Students will be paid for meeting time at the same rate as Common Press student assistants -- $9.00 - $10.50 per hour depending on class year. Please send a letter of interest to Mary Tasillo, Common Press Studio Manager, mtasillo@upenn.edu.