Sentences with phrase «cultural anchor of»

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.

In 2004 the Drawing Center — the nation's only art museum dedicated to drawing — was picked to be a cultural anchor of a redeveloped ground zero.

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.

Not exact matches

Volf joins a widening cadre of Christian theologians who seek to anchor the nature and mission of the local church in trinitarian thought rather than the shifting sands of cultural practices or the muddy bottoms of tired cultic traditions.

Appealing to Islamic sources, Ramadan argues that Western Muslims must fashion an independent Western Islam, anchoring themselves in the cultural context of Europe, the U.S. and Canada, not in the traditions of predominantly Muslim countries.

There's all the rest of us trying to figure out what to do with this stupendously important book — either because it anchors our faith, or because it contains enduring wisdom and the foundations of our cultural identity.

Ever since this page announced plans to help the Chicago Children's Museum find an ideal home, many Tribune readers have nominated a site that belongs high on any list: A new museum in the northern reaches of Northerly Island, south of the Adler Planetarium, could anchor a wealth of cultural, educational and recreational activities.

The Lakefront Redevelopment Project, which is also the south lakefront, will add 17 acres of parkland to Burnham Park, just a few years after the creation of the Museum Campus, one of the jewels of the Chicago park system and an internationally renowned cultural anchor.

These projects can also be anchored around the implementation of sporting fiestas, cultural and social events and vocational trainings to keep the younger persons busy and creatively productive.

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.

And like the best of horror films, Near Dark offers a subtext filthy with the bogeys lurking beneath the cultural beds of its time, anchored here by AIDS and the epidemic of casual drug use.

Though most of what you hear is Spanish and English, there's a colorful enough array of characters from all walks of life that make the cultural hodgepodge the main anchor of the story.

Murphy Brown, the famous investigative journalist and TV anchor at the FYI network, returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.

This gift of music is part of the DNA of whole life development and is a cultural anchor for young people.

In the following interviews, assistant editor Ross Brenneman talks with two principals of color about how they mitigate bias within their schools, infuse cultural competency into instruction, and use their life experiences to anchor their leadership.

The 20 - mile shoreline — with wide ribbons of golden sand for beachcombing and sunbathing — remains the anchor draw for Fort Lauderdale, but amazing beaches are now complemented by show - stopping hotels, an exploding foodie scene, and burgeoning cultural scene.

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.

It will become the anchor of an expanded cultural park that will stretch six blocks, with LACMA at its center.

Anchoring the Museum's dedication to expanded forms of knowledge and cultural production, each theme is wide - ranging and limber, rather than illustrative; participating artists, scholars, and curators raise topical questions and often test thematic limits.

«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.»

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

Peña anchors the cultural, commercial and political ideologies espoused across a diversity of texts down to the status of household pests and detritus.

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 work is an expansive visual archive, a database of protruding shapes that organize themselves according to covert systems and in the absence of the textual props that would anchor them to specific cultural or political narratives.

In parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context.

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.

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.

Post Bay Area Figurative painters, Robert Bechtle, Robert Hudson, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley, continue anchoring their portion of regional cultural legacy.

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.

Kaabi - Linke's installations, objects and pictorial works are anchored in constellations of cultural and historical, social and political contexts and refer to a certain place or coincidental events.

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.

This anchors her visual universe within cultural history and lends a modern, personal interpretation to Eastern religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Tantrism and Christian ecstatic traditions like those of the seventeenth - century Baroque.

«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.

Deep cultural and historical research seems to be the pivotal anchor of Adriana Varejão «s work.

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.

A culturally anchored process for gathering information includes considering how the worldview or socio - cultural context of each party family, staff, and the consultant themselves may influence the perception of any concern or need for any intervention.

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.

Communities realize stations served by Amtrak are anchors for economic development, catalysts for historic preservation and tourism growth, sites for commercial and cultural uses, and points of civic pride.

When completed by 2029, it will have three office towers, nine residential buildings, 1 million square feet of retail anchored by Neiman Marcus, a luxury hotel, 15 acres of public space and a cultural center.

Jeff Speck, an urban planner and author of «Walkable City,» said Lancaster has a lot of things going for it, including numerous downtown anchors, great restaurants, a thriving arts scene, history and other cultural activities.