Sentences with phrase «most public art»

C + Mercer Membership 2 for 1 — includes a year of C and a year of Mercer membership benefits, including 20 % off Mercer Union publications, regular mailings of exhibition brochures, discounts on admission to Mercer Union sponsored events, and free admission to most public art galleries in Ontario.

Like most public art of the era (late 60s / early 70s), the minimalist designs can sometimes go unnoticed, their industrial design being swallowed by the concrete of the city.

Acknowledging how most public art is experienced through the lens of a camera, Ross - Ho deliberately treats her sculptures as photographic subjects and actively seeks to make viewers aware of their role as photographers.

Not exact matches

Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world - renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

LINCOLN, MA — Some of America's most important and visually stunning bird portraits — not viewed by the public in more than 30 years — will be on display for a single evening when Mass Audubon presents «The Art of Birds» Thursday, September 19 at the Massachusetts Archives» Commonwealth Museum in Boston.

Some of America's most important and visually stunning bird portraits — not viewed by the public in more than 30 years — will be on display for a single evening when Mass Audubon presents «The Art of Birds» Thursday, September 19

In remarks given after the inaugural ride was over (but before the countdown to midnight), Cuomo noted that «this isn't your grandfather's subway,» name checking the design — which features expansive, column - free mezzanines and wide platforms — and the public art found throughout, which is indeed much nicer than what you'll find at most of the century - old stations in the system.

Our most successful arts organisations already know that the best way to secure a strong future is with a mixed funding model - public money alongside commercially - generated funds and private philanthropy.

The Empire State Plaza in New York's capital city may not be a museum, but critics say that it still houses one of the most significant modern art collections available for public viewing in the area.

Buffalo's Albright - Knox Art Gallery wants to create a public space that could rival Canalside while expanding and remaking one of the city's most recognizable institutions.

In one of Brooklyn's most rapidly changing districts, where brownstones sell for millions of dollars around the corner from deteriorating public housing complexes, Council Member Laurie Cumbo believes that arts and culture can be a unifying factor.

«The National Commission on Culture has got theatres across the 10 regions of Ghana but most of them are in bad shapes — so we shall, through this private - public partnership, craft them into state of the arts conditions, so that our filmmakers can premier or screen their movies across the nation to make some good money even before they release the movies unto the market» he added.

Pinkston's floor has had two public showings, most recently during a 16 minute performance at the university's performing arts cenrre.

Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson released a statement about the decision, saying: «The public provided some truly inspirational and creative names, and while it was a difficult decision I'm delighted that our state - of - the - art polar research ship will be named after one of the nation's most cherished broadcasters and natural scientists.»

Native American - Prehistory: Indigenous Americans had (and have) rich traditions concerning their origins, but until the late 19th century, most outsiders In both northern and southern, there are many rock art sites that are open to the public.

It most potently strikes the tone of an elegy, pensively observing that beneath the bickering in museum boardrooms lies a massive treasure trove of art history that's being kept from the public's eye.

EDA Awards are also presented in conjunction with special events, most notably with the Museum of Modern Art's 25th Anniversary Retrospective of the POV Documentary Program on Public Television in the US.

Like most independent comedies, this one delivers substance, finding meaning in everything from tortured art to public humiliation.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

The project is raising public awareness about slavery and human trafficking, focusing specifically on the demand side and primarily targeting young people through the venues they most identify with — the arts, social media, and music.

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

McCartney is one of 220 of the world's most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts to be elected in 2012.

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Common Core: In the Education Next public opinion poll, 49 percent of U.S. adults said they support the Common Core State Standards; in the other poll, conducted by PDK / Gallup, 24 percent of adults share that view, while more than half said they oppose the common standards for English language arts and mathematics adopted by most states.

According to a new analysis highlighted in an article at Education Week, though 21 states are revising the Common Core standards or have already done so, most of the changes are minor: «Nearly 70 percent of the changes that were made in either math or language arts across all grades were simply wording or format clarifications to make the standards easier for educators or the public to understand.»

Every decade the federal government issues a large report on arts education throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoolsarts education throughout the country, Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schoolsArts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, and the most recent data from 2010 confirms that low - income schools don't offer music and visual art as much as high - income schools do.

Most of the School's performing arts events are open to the public, including a weekly lunchtime concert series in St Mary's Church and annual occasions such as Town Carols, the Concerto E...

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Increased funding may very well be needed, but what recent coverage has missed is that the Mississippi School for Math the Science and similarly the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) are two of the most strikingly successful — and widely acclaimed — examples of public school choice success in Mississippi.

As Founding Director of the new Research Center for Learning Through Music, he is designing and implementing music and music integration school programs in public schools and, most recently, became the Founding Principal Investigator for the National Music - in - Education National Consortium, a coalition of schools of music and education, arts organizations, and school reform organizations through the arts.

Figure 2: Newark Public Schools progress in English language arts and math compared with similar districts in New Jersey (Newark falls into District Factor Group A, which outlines the 37 most economically disadvantaged districts).

Leader: Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor; Department Chair, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NHC Fellow 1995 — 96 Teacher Leader: Kevin Levin, Civil War historian and former history teacher Confederate monuments are the most common form of monumental public art in the former states of the Confederacy.

In addition, for the first time, the 2018 school profiles include a «High Academic Growth» indicator for 54 public district and charter schools that have significantly exceeded the norm for academic growth over the most recent three - year period in both math and English language arts (ELA) on the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System (PVAAS).

Over the past quarter of a century — and since well before NCLB was enacted — access to arts education in the public schools has become less and less equitable, with minority students and students attending high - needs schools most often shortchanged (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011; Yee, 2014; GAO, 2009; Stringer, 2014).

What I most admired in him from a scholarly standpoint was his continuous dedication to keeping the arts alive in America's public schools.

Nathan, who founded the public school Boston Arts Academy, believes the curriculum has been narrowed in most of the state's public high schools.

There, the industry's most celebrated customized vehicles will gather to remain accessible to the public from 4:00 p.m. — 10:00 p.m., yielding consumers a rare chance to view, capture and share images of all the latest «rolling art» from the 2014 SEMA Show.

Torching for It Murals are among some of the West's most interesting public art.

Did You Know: Frisco is a showcase for local art, and some of the most notable public exhibits can be found at the Texas Sculpture Garden and along the Gaylord Parkway, where you can view the longest continuous - themed bronze sculpture collection in the U.S.

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Talking Walls Throughout San Francisco, public art enlivens plazas and buildings, but perhaps the most remarkable display of the city's creative pulse can be found on Balmy Street, a narrow cobblestone alley leading off 24th Street, where dozens of murals form an outdoor gallery.

Visitors can now revisit — or view for the first time — this once - in - a-lifetime installation of art in the historic military sites of Fort Scott, most open for the first time to the public.

The most striking feature is the «Land Buoy», a 55 - foot public art piece with a spiral staircase to take in spectacular views of the waterfront while honoring the site's history of immigration.

This respected public figure features the most original objects of art in the region.

That's what inspired Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. and the City of Santa Monica to work together to bring you ROAM Santa Monica, a rotating public art program in Downtown featuring some of the most exciting and ground - breaking contemporary artists known for creating enthralling installations across the U.S.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

Puerto Vallarta is home to some of the most prestigious art galleries in Mexico and its famous Malecon (beach boardwalk) offers an impressive collection of public art along its streets, also adorned with beautiful bronze sculptures.

For example, Electronic Arts» Need For Speed series is considered an arcade racer, but since it also has elements of the street racing game type, namely the customization of the vehicles both in terms of performance and visual appeal, it can not be simply called an Arcade Racer just because most of the racing is on open public streets.

One of the most successful major public art projects in recent (ish) memory as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, when in 2003 the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall was bathed in sunlight and a sublime fine mist that felt entirely otherworldly.