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The Human Condition: Installation View
No full textProject Advisor: Tony G. Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1035/thumbnail.jp
Colorful World: Installation View
No full textStudent Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1045/thumbnail.jp
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No full textThis lecture on Matthew Desmond\u27s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City was recorded in January 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Jesús Gregorio Smith, is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Andrew W. Mellon Fellow. He received his PhD in Sociology in 2017 from Texas A&M University where he studied the intersections of systemic racism, masculinity, and sexuality and how they influence mental and sexual health. He has published 25 various research pieces, including 14 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in such venues as Archives of Sexual Behavior, Aids & Behavior, and Issues in Race & Society. Jesús coedited a collection of essays through Lexington Books titled Home and Community for Queer Men of Color: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality Currently, he has a book contract with NYU Press for my first sole authored manuscript. Alongside his academic, he has published five op-ed pieces and public sociological works in such venues as RacismReview, Black Perspectives, and Latinx Talk. His research has been featured and his expertise sought after in 10 popular media presses including VICE, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone Magazine. Similarly, he has given 15 invited talks/seminars/presentations and has won one national research fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
Eric Scerri: The Periodic Table
No full textThis lecture on the periodic table of elements was recorded in February 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Allison Fleshman, is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Lawrence. Professor Fleshman joined the Lawrence faculty in 2013. She has a bachelor of science degree in physics and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma. She has also served as the director of an off-campus study program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Along with the students working in her research lab, Professor Fleshman investigates the transport properties of molecules in liquids. “The liquids I study are called ionic liquids,” she explains, “and they are showing great promise as materials for carbon sequestration, and could help revolutionize industrial processes that emit greenhouse gases. It is essential that we all act to combat global climate change, and this research lets me fight it both in the lab and in the classroom.
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches
No full textThis lecture on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches was recorded in January 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Copeland Woodruff, is Associate Professor and Director of Opera Studies at Lawrence. His professional credits include work on productions for New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Michigan Opera Theatre. He has also held teaching appointments and directed for The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Temple University, the University of Memphis, and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.
Since his arrival at Lawrence in 2014, Professor Woodruff’s productions have won fourteen national awards and citations. In 2018, he received the Charles Nelson Reilly Prize for stage directing in the American Prize competition, where his productions of The Beggar’s Opera and Hydrogen Jukebox tied for first place. In its announcement of these awards, the American Prize hailed Professor Woodruff as “a champion of improvisation, musical and physical, in the operatic medium as a tool for education, creation and performance.
An Expressive Way to Document New York: Berenice Abbott\u27s Tri-Boro Barber School Photograph
No full textThis lecture on Berenice Abbott’s “Tri-Boro Barber School” was recorded in October 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to liberal learning, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Beth A. Zinsli, graduated from Lawrence in 2002 and went on to receive a master’s and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since returning to Lawrence in 2013, she has served the university as Curator of the Wriston Art Galleries, Assistant Professor of Art History, and Director of the Museum Studies IA Program. She has written on contemporary art and exhibitions in Cuba, and is also interested in the interdisciplinary potential of the university art museum
Piece 2
No full textMaterials: Oil Paint on Canvas
Dimensions: 42 x 35 x1.5 Inches
Project Advisor: Tony G. Conrad
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1006/thumbnail.jp
Colorful World, Still 1
No full textMaterials: video still
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080 px
Student Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1017/thumbnail.jp
Natural Wonder
No full textMaterials: Wood and photographs
Dimensions: Variable
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1033/thumbnail.jp