Sentences with phrase «american cultural experience»

His paintings of kings, queens, tigers, wolves, and cats are allegorical expressions of the African - American cultural experience.

Writer / Director / Producer Charles Burnett shares his career development process in narrative and documentary filmmaking with Killer of Sheep (1978), his seminal film, which was definitive in highlighting African American cultural experience.

Topics: «Birth as an American Cultural Experience» «Cultural Roots of Violence Against Women»; «' Power of Ritual»

In the course of time American cultural experience, coupled with the influence of pietism, revivalism, and rationalism, resulted in the principle of religious liberty, which enabled Americans of diverse confessional backgrounds to live together in relative peace.

He possessed an extraordinary facility for weaving a rich tapestry of literary, biblical, mythological, popular culture, and western and non - western themes in his prints that were also informed by his African - American cultural experiences.

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The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

«The endeavor «to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices» might in another year lead to historical re-enactments of anti-Semitic or racist ceremonies familiar from Western history or parodies that trivialize Native American heritage or other revivals of cultural and religious insult.»

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

In so doing it helped to promote Christian faith in America, but at the same time it de-emphasized the role of the Church by concentrating on an individual experience, and it also made Christianity a stranger to large segments of American intellectual, cultural, and political life.

Back in the period I am talking about, the 1930s and 1940s, Jews living in the major population centers of American Jewish life — New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and so on — might at least in some part of their daily lives have experienced a sense of cultural dominance: in their neighborhoods, on their blocks, most people lived as they did, and spoke as they did, and viewed the world as they did.

It is in the pantheon of these religious symbols and rituals that the Mexican - American experiences the deepest belonging and cultural communion.

If American evangelicals are to succeed at Christian formation under the new cultural regime that the Supreme Court has just instituted in law, they must re-learn the Gospel of Christ as the word of an external authority worth loving, not the inner voice of their experience.

This «American pattern» of exuberant Protestant denominationalism, separate from the state but forming almost a cultural establishment, was brought to Brazil specifically by sectors marked by two recent historical experiences: the colonization of the American frontier and Southern slavery.

The American Visionary Museum proved to be a peak artistic and cultural experience, worth enduring the stop - and - go traffic during our 6 - hour ride home (which should have taken about 4 1/2).

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Reps. Tom Suozzi (a Long Island Democrat) and John Faso (a Kinderhook Republican), both Italian - American, team up to defend explorer Christopher Columbus, saying that celebrating him wa key to helping their families — and others like them — overcome discrimination and experience cultural pride.

«The ancient iconic symbolism and cultural impact of the olive tree in Europe and the Mediterranean gives this disease an impact I haven't experienced with grapes, citrus and other crops that were hit suddenly with Xylella,» he told Scientific American on Skype.

Currently, I use my research experience to help a U.S. company, but I hope to eventually use my Japanese cultural background to help bridge the gap between Japanese and American biotech companies.

Working with a professor and lab mates from back home make for an easier, more congenial experience than plunging into a strictly American cultural environment.

94, education director for Define American, a media and cultural campaign to share stories of the immigrant experience.

Blair, who received an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, was interested in how cultural logics influence individuals» understandings of their relationship experiences.

He also has extensive non-profit organization experience having served as executive director, program director and trainer for Operation Understanding DC (OUDC), a non-profit organization that specializes in cultural education, leadership development, and interfaith dialogue programming for African - American and Jewish high school students.

Specifically, Dr. Prime explores the ways in which African American students» science experiences are influenced by the socio - cultural position which African Americans occupy in American society and the implications of this for the preparation of STEM teachers for urban high schools.

About the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) Established in 1985, the Japanese American National Museum promotes understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience.

By following these suggestions, American educators can make the educational experience a better one for kids of all cultural backgrounds.

On the basis of his own teaching experience, Hirsch concluded that many American students lacked the basic knowledge of cultural terms and concepts that are necessary for academic advancement.

The program functioned as such: African - American male instructors were handpicked based on their cultural competency and ability to relate to youth, in addition to their past teaching experiences.

And while Phi and Bui are telling a specific story about a Vietnamese American experience, there are many touchstones to other cultural experiences in the narrative, which will resonate more widely with readers and, hopefully, generate some much - needed empathy with others.

Visually stunning with incredible natural, cultural and historical attractions, professional internships in Guatemala provide a true Central American experience.

Discover the best American experiences, from the majestic outdoors to important historical and cultural landmarks.

By creating new avenues for visitors to interact, experience and connect with the natural and cultural treasures in our national parks, Art in the Parks is engaging the next generation of park users and reinforcing the importance and impact of these spectacular and uniquely American places.

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Seems like he and I approach living abroad in similar ways, trying to see as much as possible and saying «yes» to stuff we normally wouldn't, so I really enjoyed hearing about his experiences and his thoughts about some of the cultural differences and nuances between his American life and what he experienced in Costa Rica.

Third Space: Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art explores connections and shared cultural experiences between the American South and the Global South.

Rod Bigelow has served as executive director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art since 2013, guiding all facets of the museum's development and reflecting his more than 20 years of experience in management of arts and cultural institutions.

The African American Atelier continues today as a viable organization and an exciting community experience providing an environment for visual and cultural exposure, educational exchange and a showcase for African American art and artists.

Through symbolic gestures and imagery Biggers creates an experience that highlights often overlooked cultural and political narratives in American History.

Lawrence's John Brown series was one of many such historical epics he produced in the 1930s and 1940s, examining the lives and experiences of African Americans — from heroic 19th - century figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to the early 20th - century cultural phenomenon of the Great Migration — work for which he continues to be celebrated today.

At the height of his career, Pollock painted in a barn in Springs, New York, but he was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912 and grew up in Arizona and Chico, California, experiencing Native American cultural symbols, which may have influenced his work as glyphs and motifs, what Jung called archetypes, emerged during his Jungian analysis.

African American artists, such as Charles White and Jacob Lawrence, expressed their unique cultural experience from a Social Realist perspective.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Crossover: East and West, a new group exhibition opening Feb. 2 featuring ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

David Hammons, Untitled (Speakers)(1986), (acoustic speakers, bottle caps, wire): The sculpture and installation art of David Hammons speaks in poetic and provocative ways to aspects of African American cultural history and contemporary black experience.

This exhibition also celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, highlighting the passion and perspective of American artists who draw creative inspiration from East Asia to inform their own cultural experiences.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Life Infinite, a group exhibition featuring evocative works by 30 Korean American artists who represent the great diversity of Korean diaspora experiences in America, opening Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017.

Cheng's feelings as an outsider to New York and American culture at large play out upon its physical edge, where the experience of urban and cultural alienation are described via landscapes of post-industrial abandon.

Currently on view at American Contemporary, New York is «The Cardboard Lover,» a group exhibition that explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

This exhibition aims to convey the diversity of the Latin American experiences and identities within the UK through various cultural and artistic expressions and create a dialogue around different issues.

While African American experience, with its social, political, and cultural implications, remains the core of Marshall's stunning body of work, the portrait of human condition on global scale is what the painter seeks to address.