News

• January 28, 2019

  Through Comics, Profs Draw Path to Visual Literacy

  In Making Comics, an English course for undergraduates, students learn the theory of comic books while working with others to make them—all in the name of visual literacy.

• January 25, 2019

  Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Wins 2019 Bollingen Prize

  Charles Bernstein has won the 2019 Bollingen Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Established in 1948 and awarded every two years, the Bollingen Prize is administered by the Yale Collection of American Literature at Yale University’s Beinecke Library and recognizes either the best poetry book of the previous two years or a poet’s lifetime achievement.

• January 24, 2019

  The 2019 Monument Lab National Fellows are Announced

  Monument Lab has announced its inaugural cohort of fellows. Chosen through a national open call, these civic practitioners and youth fellows confront the inequity and injustice in our nation’s monuments and provide bold, creative approaches to public art, history, and memory. The Penn's Museum's Public Programs Developer, Arielle Brown, is among the eight individuals and groups selected.

• January 18, 2019

  Collaboration Between Artist-in-Residence Mike Tanis and Physicist Randall Kamien

  “Having an artist-in-residence is totally mind-blowing,” says Kamien, the Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences. “It’s like when I play chess. I know all the rules, and in principle, I could figure out what you’re going to do, but I’m not very good at chess. Then there are the chess geniuses who can see deep into the game. Mike is like that. Mike takes the rules—the same rules that everybody knows for kirigami, just like everybody knows the rules for chess—and he then turns them into something so much bigger, so much more intricate than what we could possibly have imagined.”

• January 18, 2019

  Renovations Completed at Kelly Writers House to Expand its Premier Arts Cafe

  The most prominent and frequently used space in Writers House is the front parlor known as the Arts Cafe, where many readings and public events are staged. Beginning last summer and continuing through December 2018, the Arts Cafe has been revitalized and expanded to make it more usable and technologically friendly.