The Wyoming Humanities Council is pleased to announce two new Reading Wyoming book discussion series. The first series, Figureheads, consists of novels dealing with politics. Books include All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren; The Gay Place, by Billy Lee Brammer; Roscoe, by William Kennedy; and Primary Colors, by Anonymous. The second series, Icons, [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
Fort Washakie School and Community Library has been awarded a coveted invitation to attend the March 4-7 National Humanities Council summit, “Picturing America in Our Nation’s Libraries,” in conjunction with PBS’s “Celebration of Teaching and Learning.”
Wyoming will be represented exclusively by Fort Washakie Library, which benefited from a Wyoming Humanities Council Picturing America grant for [...]
The Wyoming Humanities Council invites residents of Afton, Baggs, Casper, Cheyenne, Evanston, Gillette, Greybull, Lander, Laramie, Lusk, and Meeteetse to join reporters and journalists for a series of current events discussions. This new program, What’s News: Wyoming Connects, takes place October 30, November 6 and November 13 via Wyoming’s two videoconferencing networks and is sponsored [...]
Many thanks to Dr. Wes Connally of Central Wyoming College for naming this session for us!
The Process
We have chosen 5 innovative projects from around the state in which the humanities played a significant role. Representatives from all 5 programs have prepared 5-minute presentations about them. These presentations will be delivered in different spaces, and participants [...]
Our keynote speaker for Humanities Matter! is David Berry. What a coup! Here is his bio:
David Berry, professor of history at Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey, was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 1997 for his long term work with the Community College Humanities Association, where he has been both executive director and chair [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
In these tricky economic times, the Wyoming Humanities Council is thrilled to be able to offer travel supplements to college and university faculty, museum and library professionals, and representatives of nonprofit community organizations to attend Humanities Matter!. The travel supplements are made possible by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund and a gift [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
One of the things the council learned as we traversed the state last fall was that faculty and humanities professionals across Wyoming wanted Humanities Matter! to give them the chance to talk tech. So for three of the four times when concurrent sessions are going on, one session will focus on technology and learning. Which [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Wyoming Humanities Council does not consider Humanities Matter! to be an isolated event; it is the starting point for an ongoing statewide conversation. To that end, the council has created the Humanities Matter! grant initiative, which will kick off at the conference.
So at Humanities Matter!, after we’ve heard about innovative projects that incorporate the [...]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
We were thrilled to learn that Sara Wiles’s photographs will be on display at Central Wyoming College’s Arts Center Gallery during Humanities Matter! We were even more delighted when she offered to lead a gallery walk for our conference participants!
Since 1973, Sara Wiles has worked on the Wind River Reservation, home of the Northern Arapaho [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
Continuing our sneak peek at the upcoming Humanities Matter! conference, October 23-24 at Central Wyoming College in Riverton, today I would like to introduce an exciting panel: Humanities Engaged: The Art of Regional Change, which will be led by four representatives from the Art of Regional Change (ARC) program at the University of California, Davis. [...]