We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Mayor Daley last week chose Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, replacing Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education. Huberman, 37, emigrated from Israel with his family when he was 5 and is a former Chicago beat cop with an MBA and a master's degree in health administration policy, both from the University of Chicago. He once said in an alumni magazine interview that his long-term goal is to be chief of police of a "good-sized city." Huberman was Daley's chief of staff from 2005 to 2007.
The news of Huberman's appointment was met with both criticism and praise. At his first school board meeting on January 28, more than 300 protesters greeted him with boos and screams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported one parent saying, "At the CTA...there's a lot you didn't do. To know you're in charge of my son is very scary. What experience do you have dealing with children?"
Reverend Jesse Jackson was critical of Huberman's appointment, saying that he "wouldn't be qualified to teach in a classroom." The Chicago Defender called Huberman a bad choice for a school system that has a 50 percent dropout rate for black students and is hampered by security concerns and violence.
Richard Nixon craved cottage cheese with catsup, Ronald Reagan kept his jelly beans handy in the Oval Office, and George H. W. Bush famously refused broccoli. But what would our sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, eat? From cornmeal mush in a log cabin on the American Frontier to Charlotte Russe à la Parisienne at the White House, the food on Lincoln's table and the cookbooks of the period shed light on both Lincoln's story and that of the United States. This program invites the audience to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial with the recipe for his Favorite Cake, and to think about this era of unprecedented expansion and turmoil, which set in motion changes in America and to its foodways that continue into the present.
Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.
Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.
Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
Mayor Daley last week chose Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, replacing Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education. Huberman, 37, emigrated from Israel with his family when he was 5 and is a former Chicago beat cop with an MBA and a master's degree in health administration policy, both from the University of Chicago. He once said in an alumni magazine interview that his long-term goal is to be chief of police of a "good-sized city." Huberman was Daley's chief of staff from 2005 to 2007.
The news of Huberman's appointment was met with both criticism and praise. At his first school board meeting on January 28, more than 300 protesters greeted him with boos and screams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported one parent saying, "At the CTA...there's a lot you didn't do. To know you're in charge of my son is very scary. What experience do you have dealing with children?"
Reverend Jesse Jackson was critical of Huberman's appointment, saying that he "wouldn't be qualified to teach in a classroom." The Chicago Defender called Huberman a bad choice for a school system that has a 50 percent dropout rate for black students and is hampered by security concerns and violence.
Meet-n-greet between veterans and artists, sharing storeis and building creative partnerships.
Led by Lisa Rosenthal.
Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit.
Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University.
Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Admission is by application only. Refer to syllabus for changes in course schedule.
Mayor Daley last week chose Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, replacing Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education. Huberman, 37, emigrated from Israel with his family when he was 5 and is a former Chicago beat cop with an MBA and a master's degree in health administration policy, both from the University of Chicago. He once said in an alumni magazine interview that his long-term goal is to be chief of police of a "good-sized city." Huberman was Daley's chief of staff from 2005 to 2007.
The news of Huberman's appointment was met with both criticism and praise. At his first school board meeting on January 28, more than 300 protesters greeted him with boos and screams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported one parent saying, "At the CTA...there's a lot you didn't do. To know you're in charge of my son is very scary. What experience do you have dealing with children?"
Reverend Jesse Jackson was critical of Huberman's appointment, saying that he "wouldn't be qualified to teach in a classroom." The Chicago Defender called Huberman a bad choice for a school system that has a 50 percent dropout rate for black students and is hampered by security concerns and violence.
Using clips from a variety of motion pictures throughout the twentieth century, Ron Keller demonstrates how the lens of popular culture shapes public perceptions of history. He also shows how that history does and does not mirror the changing perspective of one of America's greatest icons, Abraham Lincoln.
On December 8th, Rod Blagojevich became the fifth of the last eight elected Illinois governors to be charged with a crime; if he is convicted, he will be the fourth to serve time. The Illinois House voted to impeach him on January 16th. Blagojevich is charged with attempting to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat, charges which have caused the citizens of Illinois to collectively moan as another local politician was hauled away in cuffs. As the saga unfolds, many are beginning to ponder the state's history of political corruption.
The New York Times reports: "'Since 1971, said Dick Simpson, head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a former Chicago alderman, '1,000 Illinois public servants have been convicted of corruption, and in Chicago, 30 aldermen have gone to jail.'"
Led by Christina Reddington, RN, BSN
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
Mayor Daley last week chose Chicago Transit Authority President Ron Huberman to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, replacing Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education. Huberman, 37, emigrated from Israel with his family when he was 5 and is a former Chicago beat cop with an MBA and a master's degree in health administration policy, both from the University of Chicago. He once said in an alumni magazine interview that his long-term goal is to be chief of police of a "good-sized city." Huberman was Daley's chief of staff from 2005 to 2007.
The news of Huberman's appointment was met with both criticism and praise. At his first school board meeting on January 28, more than 300 protesters greeted him with boos and screams. The Chicago Sun-Times reported one parent saying, "At the CTA...there's a lot you didn't do. To know you're in charge of my son is very scary. What experience do you have dealing with children?"
Reverend Jesse Jackson was critical of Huberman's appointment, saying that he "wouldn't be qualified to teach in a classroom." The Chicago Defender called Huberman a bad choice for a school system that has a 50 percent dropout rate for black students and is hampered by security concerns and violence.
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences.
Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
This exhibit runs from January 17, 2009 - March 1, 2009
Lonn Pressnell as Abe Lincoln viewing the "American Presidency: A Glorious Burden" exhibit at the Missouri Historical SocietyJoin living historian, Lonn Pressnall, a retired professor of drama at Richland Community College, as he becomes "the Great Railsplitter" Abraham Lincoln in a first-person characterization.
Lincoln will discuss the importance of rivers and natural conservation in Central Illinois.
Pressnall has been performing as Abraham Lincoln for many years, including in venues at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Missouri Historical Society, and for the Illinois Department of Tourism, to name a few.
This multimedia presentation examines contemporary appearances of the beloved stovepipe-hatted president in unlikely places: musicals, Pulitzer Award-winning plays about card hustlers by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, episodes of The Simpson's, and in ads for sleep medications. Just how does Lincoln's legacy play out for artists and audiences now? What is the relationship between recent historical findings and new representations of Abraham Lincoln? And, how do these representations shape our perceptions of Lincoln's legacy?
Previous yoga or journaling experience not required; poses accessible to all. Wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothing.
Led by Angela Dancey, MFA, PhD.
Also, a meet-n-greet between veterans and artists, sharing stories and building creative partnerships.
