News

• February 6, 2019

  PPEH Announces 2019 Artist-in-Residence, Roderick Coover

  PPEH has announced visual artist Roderick Coover as their 2019 PPEH Mellon Artist-in-Residence. Coover’s residency includes collaborative research on the waters of the Delaware Bay and along the shores of the Thames estuary, the North Sea, and English Channel for The Altering Shores, a long-term collaborative transmedia project engaging questions of sea-level rise. Public screenings and showings of his work are planned at Penn and in other locations in Philadelphia, and workshops on environmental storytelling will be offered on sonic and visual research methods.

• 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.”