Word: sackler
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...part of campus commemoration of World AIDS Day yesterday, Philip L. Yenawine—the co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education, an art education initiative—spoke about artistic responses to the AIDS epidemic at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
...training and a lot of “common sense.” Now a pro, the director has won an award at the 2009 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival for her most recent work “New Muslim Cool,” which was screened at the Sackler Museum on October 10. In the film, she follows the life of Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican-American rapper and former drug dealer who found his faith in Islam. FM had a chance to hear her dish about music, the FBI raiding mosques after 9/11, and her love...
2.FM: You have said that you consider yourself living proof that you can do something with an Art History degree. What was the most valuable thing you learned in Sackler? And did you translate this knowledge from the classroom to the real world? LEG: Well, I think one of the most valuable things I learned in getting my Art History degree was just research. You can have a lot of ideas but knowing how to find the material and sift through everything and how to channel your enthusiasm in an effective way—you know...
...inspiring artistic creation, ADITO encouraged its interns to take photographs during their travels this summer. Last week, ADITO, which is committed to providing small loans to mostly female clients in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, opened an exhibition of these photographs at “Swing into the Sackler!” a night event held by the Harvard Art Museum Undergraduate Connection. The organization has relied largely on photography to garner support and raise awareness about its efforts. With their documentary value and emotional appeal, the photographs feature individuals and landscapes that ADITO members encountered on their travels...
...much more than a strategy. It’s about empowering people,” Krass says. “And I think empowerment is something easier captured in photography than anything else.” She gives an example of one of the photographs shown at the Sackler: the women, pictured smiling and clapping ebulliently, are in the act of reciting an oath, promising to return the money loaned to them...