by Julia Bond Ellingboe | Apr 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Likewise, my parents, their parents, and their parents’ parents were all born in the Mid-south region of the US (western Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas, northwest Mississippi, and the Missouri Bootheel). I spent my early years...
by William Keyse Rudolph | Apr 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Hudson, 1811−1844 American Portrait of a Man, Called a Self-Portrait 1839 oil on canvas Collections of the Louisiana State Museum, 07526B Long believed to be a self-portrait, this painting has been championed as one of the earliest such examples by an artist of...
by William Keyse Rudolph | Apr 17, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Julien Hudson died in his native city of New Orleans, in 1844, at age 33, under a cloud. After roughly ten years of a professional career as a portraitist, he seemingly had little to show for his efforts. He may, in all probability, have taken his own life, out of...
by Amy Mayer | Apr 24, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The question that invariably came up when folks who didn’t know me well learned I was producing a radio documentary honoring the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps was, “were you in the Peace Corps?” or, more presumptuously, “where (or when)...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Apr 30, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Running footsteps and shouting greet you on the stairs as you walk up to the Short Pay! All Out! Exhibit, even if you are all alone in the stairwell. You are making your way against a historic wave of women weavers, many of them recent immigrants from Poland. On...
