News

• 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.

• October 11, 2019

  “El difícil arte de migrar” Exhibition at the Annenberg Center Featured in the Inquirer

  The Inquirer wrote an article on art exhibits around the city that will extend the celebration of Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx communities’ heritage past Hispanic Heritage Month. “El difícil arte de migrar” at the Annenberg Center is one of three exhibits featured; the other two being "Los trompos” and “Look Up! Look In” at the Kimmel Center, and “Portales” at Taller Puertorriqueño.

• October 10, 2019

  Early American Music and the Construction of Race: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

  Racial ideology is baked into the cultural and music history of early America. Native peoples and colonists heard each other’s music as indicators of difference, friendliness, or danger. The regulation of song and dance was integral to the subjugation of enslaved people. And, in the United States, a vested interest in forming a nation of white citizens was underpinned by pious and genteel repertoire. This workshop seeks to provide a space for the cultivation of new areas of inquiry into the intersection of race, music, and American cultural history. While the interrelated relationship between race, modernity, and American music is of enduring interest to scholars–especially those focused on the twentieth century to today–this workshop is dedicated to tracing these long-term themes in the earlier period from colonial encounter to the Civil War.