108 research outputs found
Losing a Landscape: Havant Thicket Reservoir
No full textAncient woodland and natural habitats in the United Kingdom are declining despite their vital role in tackling the ecological climate crisis. This project explores how individual creative practice can respond to this collective issue and focuses on the development of the Havant Thicket Reservoir by Portsmouth Water and Southern Water. Although the reservoir aims to relieve issues of water scarcity, the construction has destroyed over 14 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland and reduced the community's access to wild spaces.Researching the impact before the start of the construction, artist and early career academic at Solent University, Frankie Knight (aka Frankie Murdoch), interviewed and photographed 11 members of the ‘Stop the Chop’ (now known as Havant Thicket for Nature) campaign group and recorded the landscape by using medium format film and developed the images using seaweed collected locally.The project demonstrates the benefits of working in a natural environment and working with natural materials and aims to be used as an example for future projects that can help build resilience within communities against the effects of climate change.The project can be presented as an installation of 16 A2 photographs printed on hemp paper, named after the location where they were taken using What3Words, and presented with a 7-minute audio piece that includes sounds from the landscape, clips from the interviews and music composed by Frankie Knight. The work can be viewed digitally here: https://frankieknight.photography/ and could also be presented as an individual presentation
FREEMAN, Frankie Muse
Get PDFThe papers of Frankie Muse Freeman (1916- ) lawyer, U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner, and author, are in 11 series: personal papers; correspondence; speeches by Frankie Freeman; Frankie Freeman law practice; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc; United States Civil Rights Commission (USCRC); writings by others; subject files; newspaper clippings; photographs and audiovisual material. The bulk of the collection is composed of U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearings and other printed materials, and information on Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and other organizational affiliations both series covering the years of 1950 - 1980 roughly
Losing a landscape: havant thicket reservoir
Get PDFAncient woodland and natural habitats in the United Kingdom are declining despite
the urgent need to tackle critical biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. This project
focuses on the current construction of the Havant Thicket Reservoir, a 8.7 billion litre
storage reservoir spanning 160 hectares just north of Portsmouth on the south coast. The
site contains rare grasslands and ancient woodlands and is home to rare species of bats,
newts and skylarks.
Before construction started, Frankie Knight explored the landscape and was
shocked by the natural beauty that was going to be destroyed. She responded by
connecting with her local community, interviewing and photographing 11 members of the
Stop the Chop campaign group (now known as Havant Thicket for Nature). Further audio
recordings and photographs captured the grassland, the avenue of ancient oaks, and
waterways that run through the marsh, all of which have now been lost.
The photographs were taken on medium format film, developed using seaweed
collected locally and fixed with saltwater, demonstrating alternative ways of working using
non-toxic, environmentally conscious, and sustainable approaches. The resulting images
explore the aesthetics of imperfection, human nature and allow space for imagination. The
name of each image relates to location using What3words app so that a record can be kept
of what will be soon underwater.
By giving a voice to the local people that use the space rather than the developers
and council leaders that make the decisions, the project allows a more democratic and
truthful response to the proposed development. Although a political issue, the work
steers the conversation to the emotional and spiritual elements to allow for deeper
engagement and reflection whilst exploring the artist’s role in fighting the destruction of
natural habitats.
All images in the series and the audio piece can be accessed at:
https://frankieknight.photography/ .info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Losing a Landscape: Havant Thicket Reservoir
No full textAncient woodland and natural habitats in the United Kingdom are declining despite the urgent need to tackle the ecological climate crisis. This project tackles how individual creative practice can respond to this collective issue and focuses on the development of the Havant Thicket Reservoir by Portsmouth Water and Southern Water. Although the reservoir aims to relieve issues of water scarcity, the construction has destroyed over 14 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland. Exploring the impact prior to the start of the construction, local artist and early career academic at Solent University, Frankie Knight, connects with her local community, interviewing and photographing 11 members of the ‘Stop the Chop’ (now known as Havant Thicket for Nature) campaign group. She makes further recordings of the landscape and exhibits the photographs with a 7 minute audio piece in order to bring the people, landscape, and wildlife together in a multi-dimensional outcome. Although a political issue, the work steers the conversation to the emotional and spiritual elements to allow for deeper engagement and reflection whilst exploring the artist’s role in fighting the destruction of natural habitats. The project demonstrates the benefits of working in a natural environment and working with natural materials and aims to be used as an example for future projects that can help build resilience within communities against the effects of climate change
Photo Fringe 2022:OPEN Eco
No full textPhoto Fringe invited artists to propose a single image to engage audiences and help us imagine a greener, fairer world. Artists were asked to respond to the question “How can photography make a difference to the climate crisis?”Ancient woodland and natural habitats in the United Kingdom are declining despite the urgent need to tackle the ecological climate crisis. This project tackles how individual creative practice can respond to this collective issue and focuses on the development of the Havant Thicket Reservoir by Portsmouth Water and Southern Water. Although the reservoir aims to relieve issues of water scarcity, the construction has destroyed over 14 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland. Exploring the impact prior to the start of the construction, local artist and early career academic at Solent University, Frankie Knight, connects with her local community, interviewing and photographing 11 members of the ‘Stop the Chop’ (now known as Havant Thicket for Nature) campaign group. She makes further recordings of the landscape and exhibits the photographs with a 7 minute audio piece in order to bring the people, landscape, and wildlife together in a multi-dimensional outcome. Although a political issue, the work steers the conversation to the emotional and spiritual elements to allow for deeper engagement and reflection whilst exploring the artist’s role in fighting the destruction of natural habitats. The project demonstrates the benefits of working in a natural environment and working with natural materials and aims to be used as an example for future projects that can help build resilience within communities against the effects of climate change.</i
Female power in Shakespeare’s plays
Get PDFThis thesis examines the existence and extent of female power in a range of Shakespeare’s plays, discussing the meaning of 'female' and of 'power'. The author argues that the representation of female characters both endorses and challenges the construction of gender. Gender is defined within the thesis as the sexed-stereotyping of certain ways of speaking, thinking and behaving which are thought appropriate to the male or female sex. This creates the world of femininity and masculinity. The author argues that these are false concepts which the plays variously uphold or deny. This argument is explored within four specific areas: language, action, dress and sexuality. Where the plays show that the elision of female and feminine is false, the author argues that they demonstrate that power could exist unaffected by gendered ideals. The author also demonstrates that there are points where the plays themselves elide these two concepts, and thus do not transcend the circumstances and period of their own creation. The author concludes that, throughout the plays, contradictory versions of the female gender are simultaneously constructed. She argues that male characters are also subject to the construction of gender. Although this construction has a more negative effect for women than men, it can mean that men are victims too. The thesis demonstrates that the potency of power is affected by the gender of its possessor and that gender is a false, culturally- created construct. Seeing this observation not only as part of feminist Shakespearean criticism but also as relevant to the lives of real men and women, the author finally argues that understanding how misogyny works in literature, which is one aim of this thesis, is essential to changing why it works in life
Legendary Ladies of Lincoln: Lorine F. Knight
Get PDFLorine Frankie Knight was born in Readyville, TN. Dr. Knight majored in home economics with a minor in physical science at Tennessee A&I State University. During her senior year she was offered a scholarship by Howard University, which she accepted immediately. Nine months later, she was granted a master’s degree. While she was finishing her Ph.D. at Cornell, Dr. Oscar J. Chapman, Dean of Instruction at Lincoln University, came to New York to interview Dr. Knight for a position at Lincoln University. The position included bring a classroom professor and the Department Head of Education. Dr. Knight served Lincoln University for nearly 30 years. She was also involved in the local chapter of the NAACP.https://bluetigercommons.lincolnu.edu/lll/1012/thumbnail.jp
Frankie Webb, circa 1945
No full textWritten on verso: Frankie Webb, 11401 South Ashland Street, Chicago, Illinois.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generosity of the Digital Public Library of America for supporting in part the digitization of this collection as part of the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection, a project made possible through funding from Pivotal Ventures, A Melinda Gates Company
The Legal Adventures of Frankie and Rosie
No full textabstract: "The Legal Adventures of Frankie and Rosie" is a creative project that explores the nontraditional format of comics to express creative nonfiction. The project is a set of 30 independent comics that focuses on two primary college-going students who are based off of the authors. The characters, Frankie and Rosie narrate their stories through dialogue. The authors use this narrative model to archive their college experience at ASU. Representing creative nonfiction through comics yields an amalgamated format that can be challenging for both the writers to produce as well as for the readers to consume. Ultimately, the project serves as an attempt to test whether or not the comic medium can stand by itself as an appropriate format to express creative nonfictional narratives without becoming a diluted combination of its purer predecessors
Frankie Webb, circa 1945
No full textWritten on verso: Frankie Webb, 11401 South Ashland Street, Chicago, Illinois.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generosity of the Digital Public Library of America for supporting in part the digitization of this collection as part of the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection, a project made possible through funding from Pivotal Ventures, A Melinda Gates Company
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