Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Louis
Created:
2014-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
YMCA work with and by blacks began in 1853 when Anthony Bowen established the first ""colored"" association in Washington D.C. As Anthony Bowen's work in the 1850s indicates, African Americans embraced the YMCA early on. By the late 1860s, the YMCA found a firm foothold in the community with associations established in New York City, Philadelphi...
Creator:
National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Colored Work Department.
Created:
1891 - 1892
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Levin, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about the origins of her artmaking and her involvement in the 2011 and 2013 Women's Art Institutes, the latter at St. Kate's University. She identifies a need in the art world for more recognition of women's work. She exhibits four pieces she produced at the 2013 Institute which draw fr...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levin, Linda; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2010-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about some ethical questions that arise when writing plays based on real events using oral history interviews with real people.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2008-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
LeAnn Holland talks to Peter Shea about adult development in light of her experience as an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast, and about moving away from the omnipresence of chairs.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holland, LeAnn
Created:
2013-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lawrence Venuti talks to Peter Shea about how he came to be a translator, the role that translation plays in world literature, the invisibility of the translator, translation and difference, and the pedagogy of translation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Venuti, Lawrence
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laurie Green talks to Peter Shea about the research that went into her book, "Battling the ‘Plantation Mentality’: Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Green, Laurie
Created:
2011-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Bridget Regan talks to Peter Shea about discovering herself as a musician. She talks about writing, adolescence, Bipolar Disorder, and her move from her home in Boston to New York.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Regan, Laura Bridget
Created:
2012-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Kristin
Created:
2013-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ken Meter talks to Peter Shea about the problems of the inner city and rural areas: both are sites where people work hard but economies are set up so resources are extracted from those areas. Meter argues that inner cities and rural areas are becoming an American Third World.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meter, Ken
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Taking Anna to the Zoo: Going to the Same Place A Lot, and Then Writing About What Happens Writers Katrina Vandenberg and John Reimringer frequently take their young daughter Anna to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. Katrina is working on a book about a girl named Anna, somewhat older than her daughter, who also frequently visits that zoo. We will ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Shea, Peter
Created:
2014-03-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about her latest work. She discusses the book inspired by a trip to the zoo with her daughter Anna, as well as reading an excerpt from it. John Reimringer, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about his motivation for writing. Reimringer talks about the necessity of pushing one's...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vandenberg, Katrina; Reimringer, John
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
