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Sinan’S Screens: Networks Of Intersecting Polygons In Ottoman Architecture, Carol Bier 2014 Graduate Theological Union

Sinan’S Screens: Networks Of Intersecting Polygons In Ottoman Architecture, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

An often overlooked characteristic of Sinan’s architectural production of the 16th century is the use of low screening walls and windows carved of marble with pierced openwork or tracery to let in light and allow for air circulation. Typically these screens display polygonal networks often with intersecting polygons. This paper explores aspects of these carved patterns, which have antecedents in earlier Islamic architecture, attributing particular significance to this architectural feature in the works of Sinan and three successors whom he had trained. These slabs (and their counterparts in forged iron) may be considered études, serving as opportunities for the training …


Singer's Handbook, Fourth Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2014 SUNY Buffalo State University

Singer's Handbook, Fourth Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Handbooks

The fourth edition of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Singer's Handbook.


Architectural Design For Living Artifacts, Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka 2014 Loyola University Chicago

Architectural Design For Living Artifacts, Joy Monice Malnar, Frank Vodvarka

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Description of Book: In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at …


A Little Bit About Sensory Science And Museums, Leo S. Lo 2013 Old Dominion University

A Little Bit About Sensory Science And Museums, Leo S. Lo

Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

Article discusses how sensory analysis and sensor technology can be used in libraries and museums to enhance user experience.


#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif 2013 Gettysburg College

#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

This is history, not bureaucracy, right? I am fairly certain that my methods professor did not mention anything about a thirty-page report, so why the paperwork? In order for Special Collections to request objects for loan from specific institutions, I have to complete what is called a “General Facility Report” which is a comprehensive document that inquires about facility conditions. [excerpt]


Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif 2013 Gettysburg College

Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

Medical history can be gruesome. People shy away from blood and guts and images of death perhaps because it makes us question our own mortality or perhaps because it reminds us a bit too much about the origins of that hamburger we ate for lunch. Whatever the reason, a lot of humans cannot stomach the truly heinous. [excerpt]


Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif 2013 Gettysburg College

Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

If you were, are, or will become a student, then you have probably thought about doodling during class. Fear not! We are not the only generation to draw in the midst of a lecture. Today’s research escapade led me to investigate George Currier’s notes from his time as a student at the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. [excerpt]


A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif 2013 Gettysburg College

A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif

Blogging the Library

This exhibit will open to the public in February 2014, but until then I have my work cut out for me. I am currently researching various aspects of medical history spanning from the mid-1800s, through the Civil War, to WWI. Thus far I have read accounts of women volunteers during the American Civil War, important changes that went into effect during WWI, and an overly detailed description on how to perform tooth extractions according to the latest science of the 1860s. [excerpt]


Strategies To Manage Censorship Issues And Controversies In Museums, Kyle D. San Giovanni 2013 Montclair State University

Strategies To Manage Censorship Issues And Controversies In Museums, Kyle D. San Giovanni

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Museums are poised to educate, engage and entertain patrons, as well as challenge and influence society more now than at any other time throughout the modem history of the museum industry. With thousands of museums throughout the United States attracting hundreds of millions of visitors annually, controversial exhibits and issues of censorship continue to challenge museum industry leaders. Concern surrounding this subject exists in all artistic and cultural endeavors. Topics range from race and religion to war and sexuality, and have occurred in history, science and art museums. This study looks at the best management options available to museum directors …


We've Got Rythm, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2013 SUNY Buffalo State University

We've Got Rythm, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Welcome to our spring season concert "We've Got Rythm", as we celebrate some of the most influential music written in the 20th century by American composers. What a pleasure it is for the BGMC to bring music from the American Songbook alive for you this evening; music that many of you have asked us to perform for years. I believe it is also a very poignant time for LGBT Americans as we celebrate composers who brought us iconic music, some of which has been embraced for decades by our community but also some who were gay themselves.


An Evaluative Study Of Family Guides And Subsequent Design Of A Multi-Museum Third Grade Explorer's Guide, Katherine Hillman 2013 Bank Street College of Education

An Evaluative Study Of Family Guides And Subsequent Design Of A Multi-Museum Third Grade Explorer's Guide, Katherine Hillman

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The idea for this project began with the evaluative study of a cultural organization's family guide. The results of that study, garnered from interviews with and observations of families, serves as the inspiration for a newly designed family guide intended for third graders and their families. The guide incorporates several museum visits with NY State Social Studies Scope and Sequence criteria and is based on personal teaching experience, age-relevant developmental guidelines, theoretical influences, a literature review of family learning and current family guides, as well as the results of the evaluative study.


Making Power Visible For Museum Educators : A Theoretical Framework For Multicultural Museum Education, Sehr Karim-Jaffer 2013 Bank Street College of Education

Making Power Visible For Museum Educators : A Theoretical Framework For Multicultural Museum Education, Sehr Karim-Jaffer

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The central guiding question of this study is how can museum educators (and volunteers) effectively engage multicultural audiences, who may face langauge and socioeconomic barriers, with objects of art in museum galleries?.


Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard 2013 Indiana State University

Transformational Effects Of Museum Exhibits Upon Their Patrons: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cassandra Caruso-Woolard

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


At The Meadows - Spring 2013, Southern Methodist University 2013 Southern Methodist University

At The Meadows - Spring 2013, Southern Methodist University

Member Magazine

No abstract provided.


Crescendo!, Spring 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2013 SUNY Buffalo State University

Crescendo!, Spring 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Spring 2013 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.


Hooray For Love Caberet, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2013 SUNY Buffalo State University

Hooray For Love Caberet, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Need an idea to help celebrate Valentine's Day? We've got the perfect date night planned for you!

Join the men of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus for a two and a half hour cabaret featuring many of its members performing different songs about love, commitment, friendship, and being together.

Don't have a date? No problem, come with your friends. Tables will seat 8 people so you won't feel singled out or alone!


Ua3/9/2 Subject File - Instruments Of American Excellence Collection, WKU President's Office - Ransdell 2013 Western Kentucky University

Ua3/9/2 Subject File - Instruments Of American Excellence Collection, Wku President's Office - Ransdell

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence regarding the Instruments of American Excellence Collection and exhibit.


Object Data Sheets, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Object Data Sheets, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Activity - Make A Log Cabin, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Activity - Make A Log Cabin, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Exhibit Floor Plan, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Exhibit Floor Plan, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


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