Sentences with phrase «as cultural anchors»

Cultural assets are people, places, events and organizations, both past and present, that serve as cultural anchors within this community.

We think of cultural assets as people, places, events, and organizations recognized as cultural anchors within a specific community.

The museum's central location positions it as a cultural anchor within the community and enhances its role in developing cultural literacy throughout the Miami region.

During Golden's tenure as Chief Curator (2000 to present) and Director (2005 to present) the Studio Museum has gained international acclaim for its pioneering exhibitions by art by artists of African descent and role as a cultural anchor in the Harlem community.

Hired by the Whitney Museum in 1988 as a curator, Golden became the Studio Museum's director in 2005 and has since focused on strengthening the institution's status as a cultural anchor and, recently, spearheading a $ 122 million expansion by architect David Adjaye (of DC's recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture) that will increase gallery space by almost half.

Founded in 1993 as the cultural anchor of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens development, YBCA's work spans the realms of contemporary art, civic engagement, and public life.

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We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.

And, anchored by gorgeous production design and the pop naturalism of its performances, How to Make It in America dramatizes this particular cultural moment with uncommon style and a little grace as well.

Looking forward at the time of the exhibition, the site's future as the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling was, and continues to be, a promising cultural anchor of the community.

His work, anchored in his unique cultural background as a Kenyan - Indian Canadian based in the United States for over a decade, confronts the hybrid and transitional nature of identity as not static, but enacted.

«In these three decades, The Art Show has served as an anchor of the New York cultural calendar, offering visitors a unique fair experience that encourages engagement with high quality works of art and with the foremost galleries in the country.

«BRIC House, as an anchor for contemporary art in the Brooklyn Cultural District, is the perfect place for an artist survey which will both shine a spotlight on extraordinary talent in our immediate environment, and enable Brooklyn - based artists to share their work with their neighbors as well as the thousands of visitors that come to BRIC House each week.»

Her Infrastructure, Streamline and Anchored Candy series are physical manifestations of the cultural and industrial history of her materials even as they serve as intellectual bridges for their users, bringing them to a new way of conceiving the built world through a luxurious deployment of the senses.

The Dallas Museum of Art is the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and serves as a cultural magnet for the city with diverse programming ranging from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary readings, and dramatic and dance presentations.

Yet the troika of world - class museums that anchor Fort Worth's cultural district, each renowned for its striking and influential architecture as well as the excellence of its collection, make a persuasive case for the claim.

Under her leadership since 2000, the Studio Museum has gained increased renown as a global leader in the exhibition of contemporary art, a centre for innovative education, and a cultural anchor in the Harlem community.

«For nearly fty years, the Studio Museum has been a trailblazer in the cultural conversation, fostered the careers of emerging artists of African descent, and served as an anchor in Harlem,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The Dallas Museum of Art is the anchor of the growing Dallas Arts District and, in all its vitality, serves as a cultural magnet for the city with diverse programming ranging from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary readings, and dramatic and dance presentations.

As a supplement to APT Validation Study II, the research aims for Validation Study III are to (1) generate master scores for video clips of youth program observations without cultural bias, (2) create more tailored and targeted online training and anchor systems, and (3) eliminate significant differences in certification passing rates between groups with different cultural vantage points (i.e., Black vs. White raters, urban vs. non-urban program experiences).

Developmental scholars have long been interested in documenting the social experiences that help explain within - and between - group variation in children's early language and learning.1, 2 This work is anchored in the writings of scholars such as Bruner3, 4 and Vygotsky, 5 who posited that learning occurs in a socio - cultural context in which adults and primary caregivers support or «scaffold» young children to higher levels of thinking and acting.