Poet Craig Arnold, a professor at the University of Wyoming who has been involved with numerous Wyoming Humanities Council projects, has been missing on the Japanese volcanic island of Kuchinoerabu-jima since Sunday, April 26. Craig has visited volcanoes in multiple countries as part of his research for a book he’s currently writing on world volcanoes. [...]
Here’s the scoop on humanities events across the state! If you happen to be in or near Cheyenne on the evening of Friday, May 1, be sure to swing by the Civic Center for the opening reception for the baseball exhibit Sugar Beet Fields to Fields of Dreams, which highlights the contributions of Latino players [...]
We’ve been focusing so much on the visual lately that it seemed a sensory switch was in order. And since R&D has yet to find a way to get Pat the Bunny up onto your monitors, for today’s globally-themed post, I’ll ask you to lend me your ears instead.
Forvo bills itself as the largest pronunciation [...]
Here’s what’s up in Wyoming humanities this week!
April 20, 6 p.m.
Sheridan, Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
American Journeys film series
April 20, 7 p.m.
Kemmerer, Lincoln County Library
Reading Wyoming
April 23, 7 p.m.
Sheridan, Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
Reading Wyoming
April 25, 2 p.m.
Encampment, Public Library
Humanities Forum: Duty, Courage by Linda Ross
If you know something we don’t know about a humanities-related [...]
So far, we’ve talked quite a lot about high art. But what about the history of design, say? Or folk art? Or out-and-out kitsch?
Enter The Museum of Online Museums, a clearinghouse of collections big and small. Sure, they’ve got links to heavy hitters like the Rijksmuseum and The Art Institute of Chicago, but they also [...]
Each year, the Wyoming Summer Classics Institute brings about 20 to 25 people to the University of Wyoming campus for five days of reading, talking, and thinking about some period of ancient Greco-Roman civilization.
And the deadline to apply for this year’s Summer Classics Institute has been extended to May 1!
The theme of our tenth annual [...]
Here’s your weekly summary of humanities events in Wyoming! If you’re in or near Laramie, don’t miss tonight’s lecture at the UW Art Museum — funded by the Wyoming Humanities Council! – on their current exhibit, The Disappeared. The scholar delivering the lecture is Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives, and [...]
Last week’s post dealt with how new technology facilitates direct encounters with masterpieces of art. But the whole reason the discipline of Art History exists is that there’s always much more to a work of art than meets the eye.
Enter smARThistory, a “free multi-media web-book” created by two art historians: Dr. Beth Harris, Director of [...]
Here’s what’s hot in humanities this week! If you’d like to add anything, please let me know!
April 6, 6 p.m.
Sheridan, Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library
American Journeys film series
April 6, 6:30 p.m.
Story, Story Woman’s Club
Reading Wyoming
April 8, 7 p.m.
Dubois, Dennison Lodge
Humanities Forum: Why We Took Off Our Corsets by Melanie O’Hara
April 8, 7 p.m.
Newcastle, Weston County [...]
I have to confess: when my junior high art teacher brought in Georgia O’Keeffe prints to inspire the class, my reactions were 1) “It’s a flower”; 2) “It’s big”; and 3) “I don’t care.” (“I’m hungry” might have been mixed in there, too.) But oh, what a difference when the O’Keeffe Museum opened in Santa [...]