by Penelope Musto | Jan 13, 2020 | Site Visits
Throughout our time in Washington so far one theme has emerged loud and clear: the arts are a means of expression, but the issue of who creates and who consumes art is much more complicated than it seems. We are here to study democracy and the power of the people, and...
by Katie Anderson | Jan 12, 2020 | Site Visits
As you walk along Dupont Circle (a busy traffic circle, park, neighborhood, and historic district in Washington D.C.), you come across a red pole near a Starbucks and CVS. Upon further inspection, you realize that this red pole marks a staircase down into what seems...
by Emma Jenks | Jan 12, 2020 | Site Visits
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard from people how hard it is to “make it” in the arts. When I tell people I want to make a career out of the arts they say “oh that’s a tricky field” and that it’s “certainly not where the money is.” If you want to make...
by Grace Martin | Jan 12, 2020 | Site Visits
We recently had the opportunity to meet with a group of directors from the National Endowment for the Humanities and their sister organization, the National Endowment for the Humanities. The two endowments were founded by an act of congressional legislation in 1965...
by Mary Crawford | Jan 12, 2020 | Site Visits
On the morning of January 11, we attended a rare books presentation at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with approximately 168 million items in their collections. The Library functions primarily as the research wing...
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by Elijah Leer | Jan 11, 2020 | Site Visits
Hello and welcome back to the blog! I’m Elijah Leer. As Professor Epstein briefly acknowledged in a recent post, on the morning of January 8, we were lucky enough to visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Museum itself opens at 11:30am, but we were allowed in...
