March 2012
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Painting Air by Spencer Finch, on exhibit now at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. I will be very sad to leave ACLA tomorrow, but it’s probably best I get out of town before I fill out a FAFSA and an application to RISD.
Mar 31st
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Color Moves: Sonia Delaunay at the Cooper-Hewitt
Design progression for one of Delaunay’s fabrics, produced in 1930 by Metz & Co.: —— Images from: Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay. Timmer, Petra and Matilda McQuaid, eds. New York: Smithsonian Institution, 2011.
Mar 30th
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In Providence till Sunday.
Just a quick note from Providence, where ACLA is holding its annual meeting this year. I’m here at the invitation of Liyan Shen, a member of my graduate cohort at IU who is now a post-doc at MIT. It’s three years since I finished my degree, and I didn’t realize until this morning how negligent I’ve been about keeping in touch. As our panel convened this morning, one of the...
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 23rd
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On teaching and the business of loving teaching.
My job, like most jobs, is many.  I’m a researcher and writer of sorts, and an occasional translator. My program is self governed, which makes me at times an administrator and policy creator, though usually in a low-level highly-collaborative sense. On a daily basis though, I’m a teacher, which makes me also an accidental and very poorly trained life coach, support structure,...
Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Upcoming conferences
I’ve barely posted in the last week as the result of the following: Finally “launching” an actual website (and by “launching” I mean posting some html pages with no significant information on them whatsoever save a bunch of lorem ispum and empty promises), and preparing for NCSA and ACLA, which are next weekend and the following weekend respectively. At NCSA...
Mar 19th
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“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the...”
– Jane Adams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements.” Delivered before the School of Applied Ethics at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1892. 
Mar 15th
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"Backyard" by John A. Nieves →
Mar 10th
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Charles W. Smith
I have discovered the digital archives of the Valentine Richmond History Center, and from them, Charles W. Smith.  According to VRHC’s site, Smith was born in 1983 in Lofton, Virginia:  “He studied at the University of Virginia, the Corcoran Art School and Yale’s School of Fine Art…He moved to Richmond in 1925 where he worked for the printing firm Whittet & Shepperson. He...
Mar 7th
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Larry Summers Is Wrong About Languages - Michael... →
Mar 6th
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Observers Detail Fraud in Russian Election - NY... →
Mar 6th
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The Ghosts of Tom Joad
Our current unit is on research and the uniquely symbiotic relationship between VCU and Richmond. Our unit is “about” a lot of things—education, urban schools, neighborhoods, history, the riverfront: you name it and we’re touching on it in some way. I love this unit. It’s fascinating, it’s challenging, and (frankly) I love the content. I love Richmond, and I...
Mar 6th
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VCU Campus
VCU’s campus, 1979. The Monroe Park Campus site plan, 2020. Current VCU police jurisdiction.  Some thoughts, after I saw VCU police pulling residents of Carver off their bikes for breathalyzer tests last week. —— VCU. “Academic Campus / Virginia Commonwealth University.” Virginia Commonwealth University, 1979. Available online at Vintage Richmond.   VCU...
Mar 4th
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“In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that the conditions...”
– Wayne Commission Report, 1967.
Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
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