Sentences with phrase «american cultural achievement»

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Among those who believe that fundamental changes in American society are essential for the fullest achievement of the good life, a distinction can be made between the cultural transformationists and the political reformers.

By a host of cultural indicators, American society was better off in the 1950s than it is today, and the constraint and self - censorship of that age's mass media had a great deal to do with this achievement.

The NAACP's Afro - Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT - SO) is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African - American high school sCultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT - SO) is a yearlong achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African - American high school scultural achievement among African - American high school students.

They can also consult lists of words relevant to important content areas: for example, in E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Vintage Press, 1988) and Robert Marzano's Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement (ASCD, 2004).

Cultural awareness award for school (April 30, 2013) Quil Ceda - Tulalip Elementary is recognized for incorporating Native American practices in plan to raise academic achievement.

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

THREE AMERICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS are bestowing lifetime achievement awards on Betye Saar.

She has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and America and is the recipient of numerous awards including Golden Lion, XLVII Venice Biennale, 1997, Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Plymouth UK, 2009, Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, 2011, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Podgorica, Montenegro, 2012, among others.

2005 - 2001 Fellowship, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York 2005/6 Workspace Grant for Emerging Artists, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA 2005 Workspace Program Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA 2004 Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York, USA 2001/02/03 Rhodes Family Award for Exceptional Achievement in Photography, New York, USA 2001

1996 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Countee Cullen Art Collection from the Hampton University Museum, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro - American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX; California Afro - American Museum Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston, MA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Center for the Study of African American Life and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Woman's Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

2013 National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado Aurora Award, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas 2011 Arents Award for Distinguished Alumni, Syracuse University, New York Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association, Tokyo 2009 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts XXI Catalonia International Prize, government of Catalonia, Barcelona 2006 NORD / LB Art Prize, Bremen Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, government of France 2003 Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts 1993 Skowhegan Medal (video installation) Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm 1989 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award 1987 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute 1984 Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement

The huge canvases incorporate photographs, notes, diaries, letters, and manuscripts to evoke the complex, connected history and cultural achievements of notable black American and Caribbean women — whose impacts... More» Source link

The painting, a truly blockbuster achievement, represents one of the great «One - Hit Wonders» of American painting and a cultural phenomenon in its time.

Tony O'Malley won numerous awards during his art career, including: the IMMA / Glen Dimplex Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oireachtas Exhibition's Douglas Hyde Gold Medal (1981), the Guardian Art Critics Award (1989), and the Irish - American Cultural Award (1989).

Paul Stephen Benjamin's current video installation at Poem 88 in Atlanta, Georgia, God Bless America (2016), is a monument to the ambiguous relations between cultural achievement and state patriotism within the contemporary African American political experience.

The Americas Society Cultural Achievement Award recognizes extraordinary creativity and artistic mastery among Latin American cultural Cultural Achievement Award recognizes extraordinary creativity and artistic mastery among Latin American cultural cultural figures.

Professional Achievements 2013 Artist Residency, Werkraum Wartek pp, Basel 2011 Artist Residency, LandART, Basel 2010 Artist Residency, Tschäpperli, Basel 2010 Artist Residency, A.R.N., Grignan 2010 Artist Grantee, Artist Fiscal Sponsorship Program, Fractured Atlas, New York City 2009 Artist Residency, La Mairie de Paris, Paris 2009 Artist Grantee, Artist Fiscal Sponsorship Program, Fractured Atlas, New York City 2008 Artist Residency, «Paroles», La Mairie de Paris, Paris 2007 Artist Residency, Grignan 2006 Artist Residency, Margrit Gass Art Projects, Bettona 2005 Artist Residency, Grignan 2004 Artist Residency, Ex Collegio Jesuitas, Artes et Culturales Morelia 2004 Artist Grantee, Creative Curriculum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York 2003 Artist Grantee, Creative Curriculum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York 2003 Fellowship Nomination Rockefeller Foundation, Next Generation Leadership Fellows 2002 Nomination for the Rockefeller Foundation, Next Generation Leadership Fellows 2001 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2000 Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist in Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts 1999 New American Painting Artist in Residence, The Center for Continuing Education 1998 Artist in Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts 1997 Artist in Residence, New York Foundation for the Arts Co-curator: «The Collaboration», ABC Gallery, New York 1996 Artist / Educator, Children's Workshop School, New York Artist in Residence Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts 1995 Artist / Educator, P.S. 124 «Studio in a School», New York Co-curator: «Image and Text», Duggal, NY 1993 Selection for Editions Cillart, Paris, in conjunction with Imprimerie Yann Samson, Colombes

(And BTW, I doubt if many Jews would be happy with your equation of the questioning of the numbers of native Americans and their cultural achievements with the Nazi death camps.)