Catherine Meier's work explores the meaning of "open space" through animation, site-specific installations, and large-scale prints and drawings. Representing a state of mind as well as a state of being, these expansive works are redolent of the artist’s own travels crossing the Great Plains of North America and the Mongolian Steppe where her e...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Catherine
Created:
2014-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cathy Jordan, PhD, LP, pediatric neuropsychologist by training, is an associate professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is also an Extension Specialist in the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality. Cathy has two primary are...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jordan, Cathy
Created:
2015-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chandos Brown talks to Peter Shea about his own personal encounter with history, as the son of a career Marine Corps father, and about his efforts to convey the idea that lives matter to his students.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brown, Chandos
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Charles McGovern talks to Peter Shea about his interest in American popular culture, his work at the Smithsonian, and his belief in the "seriousness" of pop culture.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McGovern, Charles
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Charlotte Bruckermann (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. Her research concerns "Homemaking in Rural China. Women’s Everyday and Ritual Work in Generating Notions of Place".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bruckermann, Charlotte
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cherif Keita talks to Peter Shea about growing up in Mali, his intellectual life in Minnesota and Africa, come surprising connections he has discovered between Northfield, Minnesota and South Africa, dating back to the 19th century, and about the work done by his father to further education in Mali.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Keita, Cherif
Created:
2012-11-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Citron talks to Peter Shea about The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus College, a retrospective exhibit of artwork by her grandmother, leading abstract expressionist Minna Citron. She talks about her involvement with Minna Citron's art, growing up in an artistic milieu and acting as he...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Citron, Chris
Created:
2014-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Chris Kosowski is a founder of the North End Community Garden. In this interview, she talks about how and why the garden was established, its constituency, and how the land is managed.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kosowski, Chris
Created:
2014-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Baeumler talks to Peter Shea about her formation as an artist, about work in East Palo Alto, in the Bruce Vento Nature Preserve, and as the artist-in-residence for two watershed districts in St. Paul, and also about a course she is teaching in spring 2013 with two colleagues, Kristine Miller and Valentine Cadieux, called "Slow Art and ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine
Created:
2012-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christine Kliesen Wehrman talks to Peter Shea about the pluralist spirit of her upbringing, the ways in which art helps her understand theology, and comparisons between theater acting and pastoral work.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wehrman, Christine Kliesen
Created:
2013-07-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Fischbach is Publisher at Coffee House Press. In this interview, he talks to Peter Shea about how he became involved with Coffee House, the publication decisions he makes, his relationship to the authors of published works, and the Press's commitment to experimental writing and diverse writers.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fischbach, Christopher
Created:
2014-08-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Morris, Christopher
Created:
2015-04-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
