At the Hood: Sitting (Very Still) for Tintype Portraits
January 16, 2020
A new exhibit uses old techniques to reframe Native American history.
[more]A new exhibit uses old techniques to reframe Native American history.
[more]The prize, which includes a $50,000 monetary award, is given out annually by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and George Washington's Mount Vernon to honor works about George Washington and the Revolutionary era. Winning works — for example, Lin Manuel-Miranda's Broadway hit "Hamilton" in 2015 — should also "reach a broad, non-scholarly public audience," according to the prize's website.
[more]Events will include a harvest dinner, a frybread contest, and a writers' workshop.
[more]The Oct. 15 conference is hosted by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
[more]Cherokee metal type, called a syllabary, is now in use at the Book Arts Workshop.
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