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May 17, 2018
PennDesign Faculty and Alum Win National Design AwardsThe National Design Awards program celebrates design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. Last week the 2018 awards were anounced. The Architecture Design prize was awarded to WEISS/MANFREDI, the firm led by Graham Chair Professor of Architecture Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Alumna Anne Whiston Spirn (MLA’74), a landscape architect and MIT professor, won the Design Mind prize.
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May 17, 2018
MFA Alum Receives 2018 New York Artadia AwardArtadia has announced the recipients of its 2018 New York Artadia Awards, which include Jessica Vaughn (MFA '11). The judging panel comprised Monique Long, an assistant curator at South Africa’s Zeitz MOCAA; artist Lorna Simpson; Jamie Stevens, a curator at Artists Space in New York; and Carmen Hermo, assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
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May 9, 2018
Guthrie Ramsey Analyzed Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” Video for Time MagazineEdmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music and Musiqology editor-in-chief was featured in an article on TIME Magazine's website last week analyzing Childish Gambino/Donal Glover's video for "This Is America."
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May 4, 2018
PennPraxis Studies A Legacy of Innovation at the Pennovation SiteJulie Donofrio and Molly Lester, of PennPraxis, spent time studying the Pennovation Works site’s deep roots in groundbreaking invention. Whether a headquarters of a chemical manufacturing company, home to a laboratory for paint production, or a testing ground for flying robots, innovation has surely served as a common theme as the area evolved.
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May 2, 2018
PennDesign and SP2 Offer Dual Master’s in Fine Arts and Social WorkPennDesign has joined forces with the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) to offer the nation’s first dual master’s program in fine arts and social work, beginning this fall. The program will offer students the opportunity to earn both a Master of Fine Arts Degree and a Master of Social Work degree over three years of study.