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Radcliffe Bailey’s mixed media paintings and installations explore his African-American heritage in an elaborate patchwork of paint and collage. He is interested in ideas of migration and motion and the concept of houses. For Bailey, houses represent an anchor for family life while also reflecting the feeling of being trapped or enslaved. He believes freedom exists in the mind irrespective of its physical reality. In his paintings Bailey utilizes his archive of ancestral photographs as collage materials. The history of his particular family contains stories that document the experiences of the African-American race as a whole. From the Series:What Follows
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Video Length: 1702
Date Found: February 12, 2009
Date Produced: February 01, 1999
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May 16, 2010
City in Five Acts: Interpreting Urban Experience You’re invited to the sixth lecture in the University of Washington's NEXT CITY: Sustainable Urbanization series. Daniel S. Friedman, Dean of the UW College of Built Environments, will deliver the Spring 2010 Provost Distinguished ...
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March 09, 2010
Understand the role information systems can play in clinical and translational research, drawing upon the experience of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the CTSA-funded Institute of Translational Health Sciences (www.iths.org). The University of Washington’s Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, ...
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October 31, 2009
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak isn’t afraid to show the darker side of childhood. Find out what inspired his book “Where the Wild Things Are” and what made the story so groundbreaking. In this 1991 interview host Marcia Alvar also asks Sendak about other projects, including how the ...
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June 27, 2009
A love for travel inspired author and photographer Phil Borges' striking portraits of indigenous peoples around the world, but his work with various humanitarian organizations, and the creation of the non-profit Bridges to Understanding to bring digital storytelling to teens around the ...
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April 04, 2009
In this University of Maryland, Baltimore County program, Ed Beimfohr sits down with Christopher Corbett, author of "Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express," for a discussion of the beloved American myth of the Wild West. Behind the image of a lone rider ...
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