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WABE's Stephannie Stokes spoke with professor and author Akira Drake Rodriguez, Ph.D., about how Atlanta's public housing projects gave African American tenants a gathering space to form their own political bloc, even before they were able to participate in local politics. Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the
Share The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, in its latest grant cycle, will fund 25 arts projects with $177,000 in funding. The grants support, among many other themes and explorations, work that asks bold questions about speculative futures, translates the stories of frontline workers during the pandemic into theater, and spotlights marginalized voices that might otherwise go unheard. “With our annual grants, we’re always thinking about how we are supporting marginalized communities, thinking about balancing our concrete aims in doing that, and being responsive through calls for suppor...
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation will support 25 new Penn arts projects, totaling $177,000 in funding.
David Hartt and Zoë Ryan David Hartt of the Weitzman School of Design and ICA Director Zoë Ryan discuss the influence of the built environment on social rules and modes of human behavior. The talk will draw inspiration from the exhibit ""Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus Is To Be Successful." For more information, visit icaphila.org. Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Monument Lab app expands space and time at Art Museum steps The tour begins with a twinkling of chimes, as Ursula Rucker, the Philadelphia poet and artist, materializes on a smartphone screen. She stands at the base of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps—“the Rocky Steps, as some like to call them,” she says. “The people’s place.” As one scans their phone around the steps, and look out across the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, virtual signs, maps, photographs, and text boxes appear, an invite to “dig deeper” into the history of the space. The OverTime a...