Every Hero Has a Story.... join Big Nazo for a workshop inspired by the RI Center for the Book's 2015 The Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. BIG NAZO LAB Staff Artists will demonstrate how scissors, staplers, hot glue, and colorful Sharpie markers can be used to create […]
Every Hero Has a Story.... join Big Nazo for a workshop inspired by the RI Center for the Book's 2015 The Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. BIG NAZO LAB Staff Artists will demonstrate how scissors, staplers, hot glue, and colorful Sharpie markers can be used to create […]
Every Hero Has a Story.... join Big Nazo for a workshop inspired by the RI Center for the Book's 2015 The Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. BIG NAZO LAB Staff Artists will demonstrate how scissors, staplers, hot glue, and colorful Sharpie markers can be used to create […]
Every Hero Has a Story.... join Big Nazo for a workshop inspired by the RI Center for the Book's 2015 The Kids Reading Across Rhode Island book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. BIG NAZO LAB Staff Artists will demonstrate how scissors, staplers, hot glue, and colorful Sharpie markers can be used to create […]
Essay in Public looks at the changing relationship between journalism and the humanities in the digital age. Our 2016 conference, The Way We Work Now, will explore how local reporting/research can best reach the broadest national audience. It is the first event in a year-long series of events called: “What is the 21st Century Essay?” a […]
Pulitzer Prize winner, Margo Jefferson, will give a talk called What is the 21st Century Essay, as a part of a yearlong series in partnership with the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities to commemorate the centennial of the Pulitzers. Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of two books, On Michael Jackson and Negroland: A Memoir, for which she received the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.
This multimedia experience by artists Erik Carlson and Erik Gould will explore the impact and significance of the Gorham Silver Manufacturing Company from its beginnings on the shores of Mashapaug in 1890 through its height in the early 20th century to its closing and toxic clean-up by Textron in the past several years. The film will […]
As part of the Pulitzer Campfires Initiative, Akiko Busch discusses the way that essay form promotes a kind of collaborative thinking, accommodating both sciences and humanities. Mining the works of groundbreaking naturalists for their ruminations on the relationship of science, literature, and human emotion, she looks for evidence of how the practice of citizen science, […]
This Open Sesame Salon will concentrate on the process involved in bringing together all the layers of the "Of Nature Composed" program which Sherba is developing for The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities What is the 21st Century Essay?, a series of programs to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 through […]
This signature Aurea Ensemble premiere will explore the intersection of nature, science, the arts and humanities in celebration of the Pulitzer Prize centennial and the sanctity of our environment. Of Nature Composed includes the music of 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner, John Luther Adams; American Modernist, Charles Ives, and Renaissance composer, Johannes Ockeghem; with words of the […]
