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Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space
The chapels at Tuskegee University and Emory University are among the most inventive—and least known—works of the American modernist architect Paul Rudolph (1918–97). In Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space: The Tuskegee and Emory University Chapels, Karla Cavarra Britton and Daniel Ledford analyze these buildings as significant exemplars of the postwar American university chapel, finding them subject to three seminal influences in Rudolph's life: his childhood experience of Southern Methodism, his encounters with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his admiration for Le Corbusier's religious works. The chapels evoke powerful aesthetic and emotive experiences in their audiences, reflecting Rudolph's ambition that architecture should be grounded in a “psychology of space.” The Tuskegee Chapel, designed at the apex of Rudolph's career (1960–69), engages the university's African American musical and educational legacy. The Cannon Chapel at Emory, meanwhile, built late in Rudolph's professional life (1975–81) as a multiuse space for the university's school of theology, exhibits a contrasting pattern of complexity and intransigence.
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Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space
The chapels at Tuskegee University and Emory University are among the most inventive—and least known—works of the American modernist architect Paul Rudolph (1918–97). In Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space: The Tuskegee and Emory University Chapels, Karla Cavarra Britton and Daniel Ledford analyze these buildings as significant exemplars of the postwar American university chapel, finding them subject to three seminal influences in Rudolph's life: his childhood experience of Southern Methodism, his encounters with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his admiration for Le Corbusier's religious works. The chapels evoke powerful aesthetic and emotive experiences in their audiences, reflecting Rudolph's ambition that architecture should be grounded in a “psychology of space.” The Tuskegee Chapel, designed at the apex of Rudolph's career (1960–69), engages the university's African American musical and educational legacy. The Cannon Chapel at Emory, meanwhile, built late in Rudolph's professional life (1975–81) as a multiuse space for the university's school of theology, exhibits a contrasting pattern of complexity and intransigence.
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Cultural Memory, Resistance, and Identity: Arts and Humanities in Tribal College Settings
The arts and humanities- understood as the study of human society and culture that asks fundamental questions about the human condition-are inextricably linked to the essential questions posed by Navajo processes of seeking knowledge about the world. THE HUMANITIES IN TRIBAL COLLEGES Yet it is no secret that within American colleges and universities over the past four decades, the humanities have been in dramatic decline, including at tribal colleges. [...]the availability of grant funding, upon which the college heavily relies, is significantly greater in the STEM disciplines through such initiatives as the National Science Foundation's Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP). For the Navajo, these learning processes provide ways of interpreting and attributing meaning to that which surrounds us-a conviction strongly represented in Diné College's underlying educational commitment: [...]Sa'ah Naaghai Bik'eh Hozhoon reflects the living, natural order of things, including the interaction between the Earth and other celestial bodies (Willeto, 1997).
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Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts
The earthen mounds vary in scale and form-some, like Cahokia, are colossal-most often serving as deep ossuaries and representing effigies of animals, reptiles, and birds. In addition to literature and art, Allen also calls attention to examples of contemporary architecture. Allen's book challenges us to think anew about the ways ancient ruins and landscapes can continue to embody multiple worlds-material, social, and spiritual.
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Suing for Awareness
[...]the contemporary Diné photographer Will Wilson has taken up the task of capturing the extent of the environmental damage and public health crisis in a series of photographs he calls Connecting the Dots: For a Just TransitionlWiXson is known for his series, Auto Immune Response, which he describes as an allegory that \"takes as its subject the quixotic relationship between a postapocalyptic Diné man and the devastatingly beautiful, but toxic environment he inhabits\" (Wilson, n.d.). Since the Navajo people arrived centuries ago in what is known now as the Four Corners, they regarded the landscape as Diné Bikéyah, bounded by four sacred mountains. [...]he himself grew up playing in the ruins of the rare Metals processing mill just east of Tuba City-what is today recognized as a toxic Superfund site.
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Through Time and Space: Placeknowing and Arts at Diné College
Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) across North America are located in communities grappling with the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has intensified the stress on many Native communities already struggling with issues of economic sustainability and public health. Yet COVID-19--or \"Dikos Nitsaaígíí-19\"--has hit the Navajo Nation especially hard. According to CNN, by the late fall of 2020 almost one in 12 people in the Navajo Nation had contracted the virus. This article describes how Diné College in Arizona has responded to the pandemic crisis by focusing on the role of Navajo art and artists in addressing issues of community health and sustainability. In 2018, the college took the step of expanding its arts curriculum to include a four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In inaugurating the BFA program, the college's School of Arts, Humanities, and English (SAHE) has sought to deepen involvement in documenting and encouraging the practice of both traditional and contemporary Native arts in the Navajo Nation. This goal is based on the value of perpetuating Navajo traditions through communal participation and absorption of the arts. [The article was written with assistance from Theodore Jojola, Michaela Paulette Shirley, Latoya Largo, Kayla Jackson, and Paul Willeto.]
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