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Penn Graduate Students Design New Concepts for East Fremont Street in Las Vegas
PHILADELPHIA -- Las Vegas city officials are putting their faith in the products of a University of Pennsylvania design studio taught by Susan Nigra Snyder and George E. Thomas. Instead of seeing a down-and-out neighborhood suited only for demolition and new construction, Snyder and Thomas's graduate students saw a swan where most see an ugly duckling.
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Cosmic Thing, first one-person museum exhibition for Mexican artist Damián Ortega
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania opens its new season with an exhibition by Mexican artist Damián Ortega.
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Penn Engineering to Formalize Agreement with National University of Singapore
PHILADELPHIA – The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Singapore will sign an agreement next week that will eventually bring as many as 30 Singaporean undergraduates to study and work in Philadelphia each year.Penn President Judith Rodin and NUS President Choon Fong Shih will endorse the agreement at a ceremony scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Monday, June 24.
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Second commission unveiled for ICA Ramp Project by Kimowan McLain
Continuing ICA's tradition of presenting significant exhibitions in alternative spaces, artist Kimowan McLain has been commissioned to create the second in a series of site-specific installations for the ICA Ramp Project connecting the museum's first and second floor galleries.
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East Coast premier of Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...An exhibition all about collecting
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania opens its new season with the first East Coast showing of the popular exhibition Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting. Organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), the exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday, September 4, 2002 and continues through Sunday, December 15, 2002. The Opening Reception, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, 2002 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
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ICA presents drawings by Amy Cutler
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to present the first one-person museum exhibition of drawings by Amy Cutler. Presented in the ICA's Project Space, this exhibition continues the museum's tradition of exhibiting the work of talented emerging artists.
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ICA Fall Exhibitions Events Calendar
The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania opens its 2002-2003 season with two premieres: the first one-person museum shows by Damián Ortega (first in the U.S.) and Amy Cutler. ICA also presents the first East Coast showing of the popular exhibit Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting. In the ramp corridor ICA unveils Without Ground by Kimowan McLain, the second in its series of commissioned installations for this space.
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Penn Professor Terry Adkins Selected to Memorialize Integration of Higher Education
UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Twin archways anchor etched glass doors. Bronze bells rest atop the words "Freedom Henceforth - Justice Forevermore." Chosen by a national panel of experts, this is the design for the University of Mississippi's memorial to the integration of higher education set to grace the heart of the university's Oxford campus. Terry Adkins of Brooklyn, N.Y., is the artist for the historic work to be erected where, nearly 40 years ago, violence erupted and two people were killed as federal authorities helped a black man, James Meredith, be admitted as a student.
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Thanks If you were one of the 5,500 who dined at the Staff Appreciation Day picnic—that figure comes from Marilyn Kraut, Human Resources Quality of Worklife manager and the person who organizes the picnic—you have an inkling of how many people it takes to run a University.
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Browser alert: The Penn Web site is about to get a major makeover—the first top-to-bottom redesign of the site since 1997, an eternity in Internet time. The site’s look, feel, organization and content are being thoroughly revamped as you read this; keep an eye out for the results in September.