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Additionally, Maltzan discussed how he employed the movement of the subway in creating the building’s plans. “MoMA” was painted white on the black background of the mechanical boxes on the roof, in such a way that anyone passing by the museum on the subway would see the phrase slowly come together to form the museum’s name right before the subway arrives in the adjacent station...
...college, although she wants to open her own community art studio in South Africa. She’s also considering getting a masters’ degree in art education, going to film school and traveling to Greece, where her mother is from, and making a film about her family background. Another path is creating a photo history of downtown Johannesburg, combining archival imagery with her photos and interviews into a book...
Dance, however, remains Hawkins’ primary commitment. When asked if she’d had any formal training or experience in choreography and dance, she laughingly replies, “My background is in the dance club, at a party.” She prefers to spend her rare moments of spare time watching movies, listening to music (“I’m a Michael Jackson fanatic”), and hanging out with friends like fellow CityStep director Katie O’Brien...
...Truszkowska, who comes from a multi-ethnic Polish-Mexican background and only began learning English when she was six, such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia’s complex cultural background… stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...
Truszkowska is adamant, however, that neither gender nor ethnicity will dictate her direction. Her friend William L. Adams ’04-’05, also a Crimson editor, says “Tali has the most complicated background of anyone I know and she manages to respect each of her identities without being dominated by any single...