Mabou Mines Announces New Members on the Eve of its 51st Season
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines’ half-century of history.by BWW News Desk
Mabou Mines today has announced a group of multidisciplinary artists whose work affirms the company s 51-year history of collaboration and experimentation. Co-Artistic Directors Karen Kandel, Sharon Ann Fogarty, Mallory Catlett, and Carl Hancock Rux welcome new Associate Artists and members in a new category: Senior Artistic Associates. Together, they exemplify Mabou Mines intergenerational model.
These new appointments fortify, for the future, the cornerstones of Mabou Mines half-century of history: a wide network of artists and a commitment to cross-disciplinary collaboration. The new Associate Artists are media designer and performer Tei Blow; interdisciplinary artist Perel; performing artist David Thomson; and MacArthur Fellowship-winning multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems. Each bri
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, a justification of the Confederate war effort, prompting the popular use of the term.
Even though the phrase “Lost Cause” would not emerge until one year after the war ended, the reverent mythologizing of the Confederate cause began immediately after the war. In 1865 and 1866, Confederate women transformed their wartime soldiers’ aid associations into organizations bent on memorializing their Lost Cause. Claiming to be wives, mothers, and daughters in mourning, Southern white women of the Ladies’ Memorial Associations (LMAs) organized cemeteries for the more than 200,000 Confederate soldiers that remained in unidentified graves on the battlefields and established the annual tradition of Memorial Days occasions on which thousands of ex-Confederates would gather publicly to eulogize their fallen soldiers and celebrate their failed cause. Relying on the mid-ni
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TAMIU professor looks at how history will view Trump
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January has been a month chockful of noteworthy historic moments including Georgia electing its first Black senator, Joe Biden being sworn in as the 46th president and Donald Trump becoming the first president to be impeached twice.
However, history books in the future will have plenty of content to review during the Trump administration’s four years.
On Wednesday Jan. 6, a terroristic attack by an alt-right, pro-Trump extremist mob on the U.S. Capitol left four dead including a Capitol police officer. That same week, Trump’s announcement of refusing to attend president-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration was another first.