Sentences with phrase «american culture center»

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What our political culture hasn't come to terms with is that the proliferation of right - of - center broadcasting has coincided with (probably) a smaller percentage of Americans (and especially younger Americans) hearing conservative opinions at length, in language they understand.

Religion News Service: U.S. mosques hit by shortage of imams The Spokane Islamic Center wants something mosques all across the country are seeking and can't seem to find: an educated, bilingual, experienced imam who understands American culture.

He places rap squarely at the center of a hip - hop culture that reinforces patterns of ignorance and misogyny, and links it to larger cultural forces that debase the popular images of African - American men.

That question was at the center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.&center of a recent conference at which more than 200 people assembled under the auspices of the Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.&Center for the Study and Religion and American Culture to discuss «public religious discourse and America's pluralistic society.»

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Many of the central values and symbols of New England society were brought under attack directly or indirectly by the Great Awakening, the first expression of Revivalism in American culture.24 Each of the basic symbols and beliefs that marked the center of New England Puritan culture will be reviewed insofar as they were modified or attacked by the Great Awakening.

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

A very cool aspect of this property is its Native American Learning Center, which provides a one - of - a-kind opportunity to learn about the history and culture of Southwestern Native Americans.

SoFAB is home to several entities, among them the SoFAB Center for Food Law, Policy & Culture, SoFAB Culinary Library & Archive, the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Museum of the American Cocktail, and SoFAB Media.

Catch the «Shadow Ceremony» for Raleigh's groundhog at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, go for an evening hike and search for owls and other nocturnal creatures at Lake Crabtree County Park in Morrisville, learn about teeth and get a FREE dental screening at the Poe Center in Raleigh, experience Native American culture at a pow wow in Durham and enjoy pay - what - you - can admission to Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill.

She was Projects Manager at the Regional Partnership on Culture and Development (FHI 360) and Research Manager at the Gerhart Center, American University in Cairo.

At 10 a.m., de Blasio will hold a photo spray before a cabinet meeting, The American Negro Theater at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.

According to census figures, this district, historically known as one of the centers of African - American culture, has experienced a gradual gain in Hispanics over the past two decades and is about 45 percent Latino and 28 percent black.

Powell, 48, has long coveted the seat for New York's 15th District, which represents an area once known as the center of African American culture.

Organized by: the Center of Cultures, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, NYC Chapter and co-sponsored by: Queens Community House, Queens Pride House, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and Make the Road New York

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

A kickoff event, featuring a community public keynote and celebration of Native American Culture, will take place Wednesday, March 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Seneca - Allegany Casino & Resort Events Center in Salamanca.

Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americans tick.

Robert Thompson, a pop culture guru, conjures pint - size autos with moss roofs Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americanculture guru, conjures pint - size autos with moss roofs Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes AmericanCulture at Syracuse University, is an oft - quoted expert on what makes Americans tick.

But beginning Saturday and running for the following two weeks, the culture cathedral of Lincoln Center will bless New York with its curation of the best cinema of the year, from Cannes hits anticipated on American shores (Todd Haynes» «Carol,» the Holocaust drama «Son of Saul») to the latest from international heavyweights like Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao - hsien («The Assassin»).

The panel — Ina Archer, media conservation and digitization assistant at the Smithsonian National African - American Museum of History and Culture; Margaret Barton - Fumo, longtime FC contributor and editor of Paul Verhoeven: Interviews; and Michael Koresky, Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center — convenes to remember the eclectic body of work of Tobe Hooper, who passed away earlier this year.

His artwork has been inducted into Smithsonian African American History Museum, as well as collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the St. Louis Art Museum.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have the benefit of institutions like the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD) or the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY) in our hometowns, but many similar institutions offer a variety of school programs designed to educate young people — not only about the legacy of chattel slavery in America, but also the legacy of resistance and activism against injustice that it nurtured.

Previously, she taught at New York University where she served as chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and was director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University works to increase knowledge of the cultures, histories, environment, and contemporary affairs of Latin America; foster cooperation and understanding among the people of the Americas; and contribute to democracy, social progress, and sustainable development throughout the hemisphere.

* 17 - 19 — Native American education: Culture - Based Education Resources for Teachers of Indian Students Institiute, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Center, at the Thunderbird Hotel and Convention Center in Minneapolis.

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

A report this week from the Center for American Progress called «Testing Overload in America's Schools» tried to provide context to what it calls a «culture of testing.»

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

«New York City is world - renowned for its art and museum culture and we feel that it is the perfect place to house a museum and educational interactive learning center as a destination,» said Ronald H. Menaker, chairman of the board for the American Kennel Club.

Founded in 1996 at the Southside Community Center (a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating African American culture), the Southside Healthy Pet Clinic is a walk - in clinic open twice a month that is run by veterinary students from the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine who are closely supervised by faculty and local veterinarians.

Then there is «Face to Face: The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959/2015,» an exhibition à clef centered around a Cold War — era show of American art and pop culture held in Moscow, and the effects it had on Soviet life.

< LIVES April 15: Elizabeth Catlett (1915 - 2012) centennial is celebrated with special exhibitions and events throughout the year at several institutions including the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco; Hampton University Museum in Virginia; La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia; Stella Jones Gallery in New Orleans; City College Center for the Arts in New York; and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts and Culture in Charlotte, N.C.

2002 Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami, FL Mass Appeal, The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture, Galerie 101 Ottawa, Montreal; Arts Interculturels, Montreal; The Khyber Center For The Arts, Halifax, Canada; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada Monitor 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Bystander, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY 10 Seconds 2 Love, Mullerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY New Additions To The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Officina America, Galleria D'Arte Moderna Villa Delle Rose Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy

Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

The John & Vivian Hewitt Collection, Permanent Collection of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture.

The Hewitt Collection was purchased by Bank of America and is now housed at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, N.C.

This pairing of the pump jacks and the Times Square location merges a classic symbol of American oil production and wealth with the center of New York City commercial culture.

Notable traveling group exhibitions include Art, Activism and Civil Rights in the 1960s, traveling to the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2015); Hood Museum of Art, Hannover, New Hampshire (2015); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2014); For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, traveling to the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County (2010); the International Center of Photography, New York (2010); and the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2011).

The works of Josef and Anni Albers have been featured both together and separately in exhibitions worldwide, most recently including A Beautiful Confluence: Anni and Josef Albers and the Latin American World, Mudec, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2015 - 2016; and Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 - 1957 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2015 (traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and will be on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, from September 17, 2016 — January 1, 2017).

This week new exhibition openings included «Julie Mehretu: Hoodnyx, Voodoo, and Stelae» at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York; «30 Americans» at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State; and «Willie Cole: On Site» at The David Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Art and Culture of African American and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park.

HARVEY B. GANTT CENTER, CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 15 & 16 The Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture is screening the film «Boycott» on Jan. 15 and is opening its doors on Jan. 16 for a full slate of free King Day - related activities.

In addition to this, Jarvis has independently curated and consulted on many fine art exhibitions including: The Amistad Center for Art and Culture's Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera five - city traveling exhibition (2007 - 2010); Black Abstraction at Harmony Hall Regional Art Gallery in Fort Washington, MD for the group Black Artists of DC (2011); GA Gardner: Interconnections at the Athenaeum in Virginia (2012); (in) Visible and (dis) Embodied: Repositioning the Marginalized as part of the Curatorial Initiative program at the District of Columbia Arts Center (2014) all in Washington, DC; and most recently, Of Present Bodies at the Arlington Arts Center, VA (2014).

The exhibition will take place in France at the Mona Bismarck American Center for art and culture, 34 avenue de New York, 75116 Paris.

Recently named a finalist to design the Obama Presidential Center in the South Side of Chicago, David's career - topping work includes the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, the Nobel Peace Prize Center in Oslo, the Moscow School of Management, and the Aishti Foundation in Beirut, among others.

This content was used to create a five - screen video installation that has been exhibited at over thirty - five institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Birmingham Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago; Exploratorium, San Francisco; Missouri History Museum, St. Louis; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; and New Frontier exhibition at Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.

Curator and writer Marvin Heiferman organizes projects about photography and visual culture for institutions including the - Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum.

1988 Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (curated by Jeffrey Deitch, catalogue) Collection Sonnabend: 25 Years of Selection and Activity, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; traveled to CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Musée Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (catalogue) Galerie Lelong, New York A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York Hover Culture, Metro Pictures, New York Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Australian Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; travelled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue) La Couleur Seule: L'Experience du monochrome, Musée Saint Pierre, Lyon, France (catalogue) Hybrid Neutral, Modes of Abstraction and the Social, I.C.I. Exhibition: University Art Gallery, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX; travelled to J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Canada; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Works Concepts Processes Situations Information, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Robert Nickas) American Art of the Late 80s: The Binational, Museum of Fine Arts and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; travelled to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue) Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) New Works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles A Debate on Abstraction: Systems and Abstraction, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York (catalogue) Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture from the Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)