Voice of an Artist: Norma Toraya
Toraya (AKA Crankbunny) will discuss her work in illustration, animation and paper engineering as well as her journey as a freelance artist.
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Fansplaining: A Conversation with Fangirl Podcasters Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel
Being a fan usually starts with loving a given series, franchise, author, band, game, etc., but it rarely ends there. For many, fandom provides a sense of community, a catalyst for producing original creative content, or both. Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel, creators and hosts of Fansplaining, will discuss their adventures in podcasting and fan […]
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Visual Trumpery: How to Fight Against Fake Data
Discovery Center - Hindle Auditorium Norton, MA, United StatesThis non-partisan talk focuses on the visual, examining misleading charts, graphs, and data maps designed by individuals and organizations from all over the political spectrum.
Lida Clanton Broner: An African-American “Activist Collector” in Pre-Apartheid South Africa—11th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Christa Clarke, Ph.D.
“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner, an African-American resident of Newark, New Jersey, on her return from a South African journey, funded by savings from a lifetime of work as a domestic and hairstylist. Broner’s trip was motivated by a sense of ancestral heritage, but also her anti-colonialist activism. Her collection was subsequently exhibited in the US in the 1940s, against the broader backdrop of pan-Africanist ideology and the emerging civil rights movement. Dr. Clarke will share her groundbreaking research on Broner’s extraordinary story, which animates the experiences of both South Africans and African Americans during a time of struggle and oppression.
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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Discovery Center - Hindle Auditorium Norton, MA, United StatesIt’s no secret that the video games industry boasts supremely sexually objectified, stereotyped, and downright oppressive portrayals of women. In this talk Anita Sarkeesian explains why. She will give a broad overview of the culture that sustains harassment, exclusion, and objectification in gaming, from the dynamics of sexist cybermobs to recurring tropes in video games that reinforce sexist conceptions of women, before concluding with a look at a few games that manage to get it right.
“Take Me Higher”: “Tuning Up” and the Gospel Imagination featuring Rev. Dr. Braxton Shelley
Braxton Shelley, assistant professor of music at Harvard University, is a musicologist who specializes in African American popular music. His research and critical interests, while currently focused on African American gospel performance, extend into media studies, sound studies, phenomenology, homiletics and theology.
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Transformative Creations: Modern Copyright, Fair Use, and the Creative Arts
Technology has vastly outpaced copyright law, yet it has also expanded the bounds of potential creativity in the arts and new media. Join lawyer and copyright expert Kyle K. Courtney for an engaging and informative exploration of how the arts, media and the law intersect.
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Seed Collecting Workshop
Watson Fine Arts - Beard and Weil Galleries Norton, MA, United StatesJoin artists Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of the Next Epoch Seed Library (NESL) for a multisensorial experience with the wild, disturbance-oriented plants of the Wheaton Campus.
Seed Collecting Workshop
Watson Fine Arts - Beard and Weil Galleries Norton, MA, United StatesJoin artists Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of the Next Epoch Seed Library (NESL) for a multisensorial experience with the wild, disturbance-oriented plants of the Wheaton Campus.
Sewing Conversation
Watson Fine Arts - Beard and Weil Galleries Norton, MA, United StatesInspired by her Appalachian family history and the tradition of quilting circles, Jenkins brings people together to sit, talk, and sew.