by Susan Eisenberg | Dec 3, 2009 | The Public Humanist
I thought I’d already heard it all, so I was surprised at how suddenly raw I felt, reading what one vocational-technical high school student had written on a yellow sticky note: “Your [sic] never going to make it.” I guessed that she was quoting the...
by Matthew Mitchell | Dec 6, 2009 | The Public Humanist
This piece is a continuation, of sorts, of an earlier article describing the process of the 100 Faces of War Experience project. The particular thing I talk about here is the creation of the portrait of Rick Yarosh, an American soldier disfigured by burns, the...
by Jack Cheng | Dec 10, 2009 | The Public Humanist
It’s all about context. An amazing portrait is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as one of 49 finalists for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The painting depicts Rick Yarosh from the waist up. Yarosh wears a gray Army...
by Andrea Assaf | Dec 15, 2009 | The Public Humanist
1. Festival OverviewUNESCO declared 2009 “The Year of Grotowski” in honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerzy Grotowski, whom many consider to have been the most important theater director of the 20th century. The legacy of Grotowski´s work...
by John Drabinski | Dec 18, 2009 | The Public Humanist
I loved books as a kid. But one of the strange things about loving books as I did is that I somehow managed to not read most of the grade school kid classics. I'm thinking of stuff like Wrinkle in Time, that Lion, Witch, Wardrobe thingy, Lord of the Rings, and all...
