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Wax guns, duck decoys, and nail polish. These are some of the items in artist Jessica Pleyel’s community engagement toolkit. The Obermann Graduate Institute alumna is currently bringing audiences...
Remove the letter A from Scrabble and things get tricky pretty quickly. Likewise, remove apis melliferia , or the honeybee, from the world’s ecosystems and things start to fall apart. Almonds and...
The Obermann Center will host multiple groups this summer, working on projects ranging from an edited anthology to a "film opera." Bertrand Russell's Logical Atomism Draws International Scholars The...
It's 1975, Lithuania. You receive a letter in the mail—brief, and on KGB letterhead. "You are invited to a friendly chat at our headquarters," it says. "Next Monday, 10 a.m." Gulp. These "chats"—...
A report from our Director, Teresa Mangum Just as news was breaking that the proposed federal budget could zero out the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, I joined representatives...