J. Morgan Puett: A Practice of Be(e)ing
by Roderick Angle
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J. Morgan Puett is a trans-disciplinary creative producer with accomplished work in the areas of installation art practices, clothing and furniture design, architecture, fine art, film, and more – rearranging these intersections by applying conceptual tools of research-based methods in history, biology, new economies, design, craft and collaboration. She is the recipient of The John and Marva Warnock award 2014, the United States Artists Simon Fellow Award 2011, the Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship 2009, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award 2005, the PEW Charitable Trust in Philadelphia 2005 amongst others and will be the 2014 keynote speaker for Open Engagement at the New Queens Museum of Fine Art.
Puett exhibits, lectures and teaches extensively in venues which include MoMA, New York (2012-13); Musashimo Art University, Tokyo (2012); Contemporary Art Center, Tblisi, Republic of Georgia (2012); Creative Time, NYC (2011); Queens Museum of Art, NYC (2010); MoMA, NYC (2010); The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008); University of Venice, Italy (2005); American Fine Arts Co., NYC (2004); ARTEX, Arnheim, Netherlands (2004); WaveHill, Bronx, NYC; The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia (2003-4); Mass MoCA, Ma. (2004); Spoleto, USA, Charleston, SC, (2002); The Serpentine Gallery & Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2001). Her work is in the Tate Modern in London, The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Philadelphia and in the Museum of Fine art, Philadelphia.
Though her practice can be itinerant in nature, Puett currently is living, working, learning and teaching in Pennsylvania at Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity) that she founded and co-directs with Mark Dion.
Time Lapse: Benjamin Franklin Memorial Wrapping August 2013
ICONIC BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STATUE WRAPPED AND PROTECTED
AS FRANKLIN INSTITUTE BEGINS DELICATE PROCESS OF CONNECTING
OLD WITH NEW
Franklin Memorial Hall adjoins Your Brain as construction of the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion reaches new milestone. The iconic 20-foot high statue of Benjamin Franklin was be wrapped in a special protective polyethylene cover to shield it from dust and debris in preparation for the breakthrough and adjoining of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial with the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion.
The removal of the marble wall of the Rotunda will reveal the eventual entrance to the state-of-the-art Your Brain exhibit, the largest exhibit ever created by The Franklin Institute.
Your Brain opens June 2014 as the centerpiece of the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion.
Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III, The Challenge of Building a National Museum”
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice hosted a conversation with U.S. Senator Jack Reed & Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) on Monday, May 4th, 2015.
Welcome by President Christina Paxson and introductory remarks by Professor Anthony Bogues.
Black in Design Day 2 Part 2
10/10/2015
This conference has been organized to address social justice from the perspective of design, emphasizing the importance of compassion in the design ethos, and with the goal of recognizing the contributions of African descendants to the design field and, by so doing, to broaden the definition of the designer. A series of conversations including students, faculty, and invited guests will consider design at the scale of the building, neighborhood, city, region, and globe.
TEDxPhiladelphia - Unintended Consequences
The moment that we recognize the impact of an unintended consequence, a new story unfolds. Ideas that arise from unintended consequences are deeply personal. An unintended consequence forces us to reassess our assumptions and challenge our narratives.
Unintended Consequences is the official theme for TEDxPhiladelphia 2019.
The daylong multidisciplinary conference will bring together engaging speakers, performers, and participants to share their stories and experiences of unanticipated moments, their challenges and unexpected opportunities that arose from this, and how it's shaped who they are and what they do today.
Jim Henson
James Maury Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, actor, film director and producer. Born in Greenville, Mississippi and raised in Leland, Mississippi and Hyattsville, Maryland, he began developing puppets while attending high school. While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he created Sam and Friends, a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared on television. After graduating from the University of Maryland, with a degree in home economics, he produced coffee advertisements and developed experimental films. Feeling the need for more creative output, Henson founded Muppets, Inc., which would later become The Jim Henson Company, in 1958.
He became famous in the 1970s when he joined the children's educational television program Sesame Street, and there helped develop characters for the series. He also appeared in the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. In 1976, after scrapping plans for a Broadway show, he produced The Muppet Show. He won fame for his creations, particularly Kermit the Frog and Ernie, and he was involved with Sesame Street for over 20 years. He also had frequent roles in Muppets films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. During the later years of his life, he also founded the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. He won two Emmy Awards for his work on The Storyteller and The Jim Henson Hour.
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State of the Field 2016: Archaeology of Egypt – Fourth Session
September 24th, 2016
4:00 pm Fourth session – “Breaking political boundaries”: Introduction – Laurel Darcy Hackley (Brown University)
4:10 pm Monica Hanna (Arab Academy for Science and Technology) – Breaking Political Boundaries in Egyptian Archaeology
Since the events in 2011, a new form of advocacy related to Egyptian heritage has started. Due to the security vacuum and the political events, some of the sites, museums and storehouses were attacked and thousands of objects were stolen, as well as many archaeological sites illegally dug. Regular citizens in several parts of Egypt found themselves responsible for the security of many of the sites. Indeed, what made the difference to the fate of each site was how the local community reacted. For example, when the Armant prison, north of Luxor’s west bank, was opened and convicts were let loose in January 2011, the locals of al-Bu’airat and al-Qurna went out with their sticks and few rifles to protect the archaeological sites in the area. On the contrary, in the Memphite necropolis close to Abu Sir, Saqqara, Dahshur, and Lisht, villagers called in microphones for villagers to go out and loot. The same also happened to the urban heritage in many cities; several early twentieth-century buildings were brought down by contractors to build new constructions. The historic centre of medieval Cairo was also subjected to problems such as looting and thefts, destruction of buildings and illegal digging under the most important monuments. With the government not able to stop the widespread cultural desecration using their traditional methods, many groups have formed on their own to raise awareness of the problems and to put enough pressure on the political agenda of the Egyptian government in order to take action. Despite most of the efforts have had limited success compared to expectations, yet these groups have managed to create a very good public awareness of the different problems. They were even consulted when the new Egyptian constitution was being written in 2013 and were part in drafting article 50, aiming at the protection of Egyptian cultural heritage. The pressure these groups have created now gives them enough clout to change the future of Egyptian cultural heritage through collaborative efforts with the Egyptian government and international institutions.
4:30 pm Gerry Scott (The American Research Center in Egypt) – Addressing Economic and Social Needs through Cultural Heritage
Egypt’s recent revolution, with the resulting breakdown in stability, both real and perceived, brought various sorts of stress to different aspects of Egypt’s cultural heritage. Widespread looting of sites and museum break-ins and theft being widely reported. Another significant area of stress was the dramatic downward plummet of Egypt’s tourism sector, both an important component of the Egyptian economy and the major source of revenue for the Ministry of Antiquities. Luxor, in Upper Egypt, a town that relies almost solely on the tourist industry for its survival, was especially hard hit. This paper will examine an innovative project carried out by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) and supported with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to offer employment, while at the same time continuing ARCE’s tradition of offering training for Ministry of Antiquities staff and conducting monument conservation. It will also describe some other related projects.
4:50 pm Response: Robert Preucel (Brown University)
5:10 pm Discussion
5:30 pm Closing: James P. Allen (Brown University)
National Capital Planning Commission (USA) Meeting, September 4, 2014
Proceedings from the September 4, 2014 meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission.
Sheetal Prajapati
MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by a new program faculty member, Sheetal Prajapati.
Sheetal Prajapati is a Brooklyn-based educator and artist administrator. Her work as an educator explores the possibilities for public engagement that emerge from collaboration, experimentation and interdisciplinary practice. Her studio practice explores notions of intimacy, identity and cultural histories as a means to consider our relationship to the material world. Currently, she is working on writing project examining notions of otherness in the United States.
Most recently, Sheetal has held residencies at the Wassaic Project (New York, 2018), Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Maine, 2017) and the Arquetopia Foundation (Mexico, 2016), amongst others. Until September 2018, she served as the first director of public engagement at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Previously, she held programming positions at The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University). From 2014 – 2016, Sheetal co-curated Open Engagement, an international conference on art and social practice. Prior to joining the faculty of School of Visual Arts (New York) this year, Sheetal taught in the MFA programs at Montclair State University (New Jersey) and Moore College of Art and Design (Pennsylvania). She received her BA from Northwestern University (History & Gender Studies) and her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- Socrates
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the U.S. to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program was established in 1847. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, Brown adopted a New Curriculum sometimes referred to as the Brown Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The New Curriculum eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements, made students the architects of their own syllabus and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university; Pembroke Campus now includes dormitories and classrooms used by all of Brown.
Undergraduate admissions is highly selective, with an acceptance rate of 7.2% for the class of 2022. The university comprises the College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, on the western edge of the campus, contains one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States.As of August 2018, 8 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Brown's faculty and alumni include five National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include eight billionaire graduates, a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials, 54 members of the United States Congress, 56 Rhodes Scholars, 52 Gates Cambridge Scholars 49 Marshall Scholars, 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 21 Pulitzer Prize winners, various royals and nobles, as well as leaders and founders of Fortune 500 companies.
SPAN 2017 Pittsburgh - Livestream Day 1
SPAN is a conference exploring the ways in which design and technology shape our everyday lives. Use the timestamps below to jump to individual talks:
Madeline Gannon (0:07:33)
Panel: Desi Gonzalez, Paolo Pedercini, Jon Rubin, Aaron Lammer (0:27:29)
Molly Wright Steenson (1:10:42)
Panel: Elana Schlenker, Jakob Marsico, Lenka Clayton, Brett Yasko (1:36:34)
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Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting: 04.03.19
Welcome to the Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting
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[00:03:17] RECOGNITION: Betty Castor
[00:22:00] PROCLAMATION: April 5 - 7, 2019
[00:37:00] PROCLAMATION: April 2019
[00:42:00] PROCLAMATION: April 7 - 13, 2019
[00:49:00] MEMORIAM: Advocacy for Persons Living with Disabilities
[01:01:00] Changes to Agenda
[01:06:00] Public Comment
[02:25:00] Consent Agenda
[02:26:00] Item A-19
[02:26:00] Item B-9: Approve a payment to the Sheriff's Office for Crossing Guards
[02:37:00] Item D-1: Public Hearing Ordinance Amending Hillsborough County Code of Ordinances
[02:38:00] Item D-2: Family Child Care Homes and the Child Care Facilities Licensing Ordinances
[02:47:00] Item D-3: School Concurrency Proportionate Share MitigationDevelopment Agreement
[02:48:00] Item D-4: School Concurrency Proportionate Share Mitigation Development Agreement
[02:49:00] Item D-5: School Concurrency Proportionate Share Mitigation Development Agreement
[02:50:00] Item D-6: Resolution designating approximately 19.41 acres as a Brownfield Area
[02:53:00] Item F-3: Approve Sponsorship of the Florida Solar United Neighborhoods (FLSUN) Cooperative
[02:57:00] Item F-8: Discuss Industrial Development Authority's Bonds for Advantage Academy
[03:27:00] Item B-8: Accept the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning System Audit Report
[03:42:00] Item F-5: Internal Auditor's report # OA-1902: Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning System
[03:57:00] Item B-18: Receive County Audit Report 360, 9-1-1 Agency
[03:59:00] Item B-6: Approve Transportation Sales Surtax Interlocal Agreement
[04:14:00] Item B-10: Approve a Budget Amendment to Appropriate Revenues and Expenditures
[05:31:00] Item B-1: Approve Third Modification Funding Agreement with Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay
[05:32:00] Item B-2: Approve State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Funding Agreement
[05:32:00] Item B-3: Adopt by Resolution the Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP)
[05:33:00] Item B-4: Appoint Representatives to a Rules of Order Review Committee
[05:35:00] Item B-7: Approve FY19 budget amendment to appropriate $2,040,750 from ERF
[05:36:00] Item B-12: Award 4 year contract to World Sports Turf & Marketing, LLC
[05:37:00] Item B-13: Award and Execute an Agreement with TLC Diversified, Inc.
[05:38:00] Item B-15: Approve Contract with UPMC6, L.C.
[05:39:00] Item B-16: Approve Contract with Kyle Bronson Motorsports, LLC
[05:39:00] Item B-17: Approve License Agreement with Starting Right Now!, Inc. (SRN),
[05:41:00] Item C-1: Presentation to the BOCC on the FY 20 - 21 Budget Process
[05:42:00] Item F-1: Housing Finance Authority
[05:44:00] Item F-2: Direct Additional Issues be included in Hillsborough County State Legislative Program
[06:22:00] Item F-4: Approve the BOCC support letter for the Westshore Exchange
[06:24:00] Item F-6: Identify Sources of Funding for Youth not eligible for TANF
[06:30:00] Item F-7: Hire a Consultant to do a Report on Septic Conversion in Hillsborough County
[06:39:00] Item F-9: Request Board approval Theodore Roosevelt Hillsborough Forever Conservation Award
[06:40:00] Item G-1: Accept February 2019 Monthly Report
[06:41:00] Item G-2: Receive Report from Public Works Regarding the Two-mile School Safety Zones
[06:43:00] Future Items
ThinkCraft: Judith Schaechter Artist Talk
Food for Thought: “Exploring Your World Through Three Cultural Moments”- Part I
Part I: Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise
Presented by:
Susan DeMay
Ceramicist and Professor, Department of Art, Vanderbilt University
Vivien Green Fryd
Professor, History of Art, Vanderbilt University
Trinita Kennedy
Curator, Frist Center
Megan Robertson
Associate Curator of Interpretation, Frist Center
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)