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What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
Stephan Groening, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, explains the significance of Orwell's novel in today's world
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Graduate art students put on compelling end-of-year thesis exhibition
A new wave of art was strewed across the gallery walls and floors, communicating ideas through the mediums of reclaimed household furniture, sound, virtual reality, and more.
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Woman in Seattle's Central District to preserve music history with virtual reality
Yolanda Barton (BA, Laws, Societies, and Justice, 2004 | MC, Digital Media, 2018) wants to use virtual reality to preserve the music history of Seattle.
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Design, art thesis projects fill Henry Art Gallery for eclectic annual exhibition
The School of Art + Art History + Design annual MFA + MDes thesis exhibition brings together the dreamy and the practical to cohabit at the Henry Art Gallery.
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UW Books in brief: Mindful travel in an unequal world, day laborers in Brooklyn, activist educators
Recent notable books by UW faculty, several from Arts & Sciences. explore mindful international travel, men seeking work as day laborers, and activist teachers.
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5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)
In 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant that seeded the new Creative Fellowships Initiative.
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Faculty Friday: Selim Kuru
Selim Kuru's love of literature all started with his mother, "she was an avid reader and had a library under lock and key and would release books for me according to my age."
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Exploring Blackness through Art
The Black Embodiments Studio examines how definitions of blackness are produced and expressed through the arts.
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Dani Tirrell moves through space
Dani Tirrell (Dance lecturer) is a self-described "movement guide," and mines both his personal life and the culture around him to create dance performances with something to say.
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These musicians use cardboard boxes, books and rocks to create music focusing on wrongfully convicted prisoners
Allen Otte and John Lane will lead a lecture-performance, with UW Percussion Ensemble, and discussion.
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These artists want to draw the Chinese railroad workers back into history
An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere. For UW Painting + Drawing Professor Lin Zhi, it happened in August 2001, on a road trip from Missouri to Seattle.
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Why you're more likely to cry on an airplane
Stephen Groening, a professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media, has been studying this phenomenon in the context of in-flight entertainment for years.
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Policy in Action
Through the Task Force program, students in the Jackson School of International Studies tackle critical policy challenges — and set their career paths in motion.
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New experiences shape the music of Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence
The Seattle Symphony's 2018-19 composer in residence Derek Bermel collaborates with Marcin Paczkowsky, a research associate in DXARTS.
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With ‘Nina Simone: Four Women,’ director Valerie Curtis-Newton wants audiences to see the work of black women
Valerie Curtis-Newton, head of directing program in the School of Drama, is the director of "Nina Simone: Four Women" at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, on stage April 26.