Hector Aristizbal
The blessing is next to the wound
Victimhood
Therapy and theater
Torture as initiation
Alienation, loss of community, relations
Anger; School of the Americas (GA)teach torture
Americans unaware
Survival vs. meaningful life
IMF impact in
Howard Zinn
History excavator: He digs for and recovers valuable and
neglected aspects of the past, then uses them to help us
understand the present.
Carlos Fuentes: History is Present.
C. Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination-understanding the
world fro
Kim Rosen Biography
Worldwide Freedom Space needed similar to peace summits, economic forums
to allow another kind of wisdom to emerge
Visit to Kenya safe house for girls escaping violence of fgm and early marriage
Girls familiar with poetry from tribal
Kim Rosen Poetry
Written on the Bones
Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
Poems as powerful medicine
Becoming a disciple to a poem written by another
Learning poems by heart
MFA Sarah Lawrence College
She has given poetry concerts, lect
Ellen Dissanayake
Arts of our time ceremony
Work and biography intertwined
First husband and children
Trip to Sri Lanka
Realization: art cultural universal, genetic predisposition, like language
Other realization: love; left one life, jumped to anot
Ellen Dissanayake:
Defining art
Human evolution
A multi-disciplinary approach
Why do we need art?
Personal evolution
B.A from Washington State in 1957
Married John Eisenberg (Ph.D. in zoology), supported him financially and trained for
position as faculty
Dr. David Pilgrim
Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University, MI
Curator, Jim Crow Museum
The Garbage Man: Collections of racist memorabilia for museum of horrors
0ver 30 years of collecting
Objects that portray stereotypes necessarily de-humanize
O
Howard Zinn
(8/24/1922-1/27/2010)
WW II Veteran
Scholar
Professor
Writer
Activist
History excavator: He digs for and recovers valuable and neglected aspects of the past,
then uses them to help us understand the present.
Carlos Fuentes: History is Present.
David Pilgrim
Museum: patterns of race relations, origins and consequences of racist depictions
Afraid NOT to talk about race and racism
Jim Crow museum founded on the belief that open, honest, even painful discussions
about race are necessary to avoid ye
David Pilgrim
Jim Crow: more than segregation
Racial caste system
Living under Jim Crow meant battling shame
Collection of racist objects through graduate school at Ohio State.
Cost of items; why so expensive?
Anger
In Sociology department-politically lib
Ellen Dissanayake
Personal evolution
B.A from Washington State in 1957
Married John Eisenberg (Ph.D. in zoology), supported him
financially and trained for position as faculty wife
M.A in Art History, pianist, affiliate professor at U
Washingtons School o
David Pilgrim
0ver 30 years of collecting
Objects that portray stereotypes necessarily de-humanize
Objects include games, prints, cards, ashtrays, salt shakers,
etc.
First object bought at age 12; called by name other than his
own.
Confronts store clerk t
Kim Rosen
MFA Sarah Lawrence College
Teaches worldwide; disparate audiences
Rejected dry, analytical approach to poetry taught in
schools
Theatre, spirituality led to self-inquiry
Inspiration: poet David Whyte but ultimately the poems
themselvestangibilit
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Jeremy Epp
Gothic Art and Architecture
4/26/16
Throughout history, we can find that the artwork created during a given time period can
give us an incredible amount of insight into that culture. Each great cultural period in history has
its own great art
