The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history focused on archiving the lived experience of the covid-19 epidemic. We have designed this project so that professional researchers and the broader public can create and upload their oral histories to our database. All the data that participants collect and produce will be open […]
Those streaming service subscriptions are about to pay for themselves. With staying home and social distancing in effect for the foreseeable future because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), there’s plenty of time for binge watching. In an attempt to reduce your cabin fever and ease your yearning for those trips to campus, we curated a […]
Thank you for your patience as we work to define the best path forward from the events that are rapidly unfolding around us due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Herron School of Art and Design and the university are committed to providing you with the same level of rigor and growth that would be […]
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois published “The Souls of Black Folk,” a seminal work that spurred and under-girded Black protests movements for more than a century. In the essay entitled, “On the Dawn of Freedom,” DuBois suggests that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,—the relation of the darker to the […]
The decision includes all IU campuses and will move all instruction to remote teaching. In response to the rapidly changing situation with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has issued a universitywide letter regarding specific measures in support of the health and well-being of students and others in the Indiana University community. A […]
Beatriz Vasquez, a 2019 recipient of the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute Artist Residency, will share her experience on the U.S.-Mexico border and her work based on the indigenous craft of papel picado. Vasquez’s experience will serve as an introduction to a discussion focusing on the immigration crisis and how it has impacted Indianapolis communities […]
With a new decade upon us, it’s time for the United States’ 10-year roll call — the census. It does require a little more work than saying “present” or raising your hand, but not much. For the first time in the U.S. Census Bureau‘s history, the census can be completed online. It will be available from […]
Employing the Mexican folk-art technique of papel picado, where intricate designs are cut into colorful sheets of tissue paper, Herron alumna Beatriz Vasquez pushes the boundaries of this widely used art form to address the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Vasquez will moderate a panel discussion, “Migration: A Force of Nature—A Basic Human Need,” […]
When given the opportunity to interview someone as multifaceted as Dave Eggers, it’s hard to know where to begin. Do you start with his nonprofit work in children’s education and publishing? Do you ask him about his breakout memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, published in 2000, in which he recounts bringing up his younger […]
Nyle DiMarco, winner of Dancing with the Stars and America’s Next Top Model, empowers audiences to believe they can do and be anything they want in life, no matter the obstacle. He won the mirror ball trophy on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (season 22), was the last model standing on The CW’s America’s Next Top Model (cycle 22), and appeared on […]
