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The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces online symposium R. Sikoryak, Cover illustration for Constitution Illustrated published by Drawn % Quarterly, 2020. STOCKBRIDGE, MASS .-The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the scholarly arm of Norman Rockwell Museum, announced a slate of speakers and topics for its annual symposium, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration. For the second year in a row this event will happen virtually on Zoom over two days – Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16. This timely symposium will explore historical and contemporary not...

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Monday, January 11th, 2021 Nominations for the WKU College of Education and Behavioral Sciences’ Distinguished Educator Awards will close Jan. 31. The awards will celebrate the individual and significant contributions educators make to the teaching profession. From literacy to innovation, WKU will recognize 10 P-12 educators within the university’s service region based on their inspiring solutions in the classroom. This is the second year of the Distinguished Educator Awards. “We’ve witnessed as our Kentucky teachers have reached, passed, a...

Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. On Episode 140 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by Helen Drutt English. Helen is a longtime champion of the contemporary craft movement. She and Naomi discuss her history with crafts and collecting, digging into the tension between mechanization and handmade objects in the 20th century. Helen and Naomi lift up the value of rituals in these months...