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Make The Yuletide Gay, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Welcome to our holiday concert, "Make the Yuletide Gay!" This time of year can be incredibly exhilarating and for some, melancholy and very sentimental. Whether you are decorating your tree with a Rankin-Bass television special on, making hundreds of latkes with your bubbie for Hanukkah or just quietly remembering past holidays, we are so please you took some time out to be with us.

At The Meadows - Fall 2011, Southern Methodist University

Member Magazine

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Ua51 Wku Libraries: An Introspective Review 2011, Connie Foster, Chair

Library Annual Reports, Reports, and Statistics

No abstract provided.

Manassas: On The Road Again, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

A few months ago I took a quick jaunt to Carlisle to see the Pennsylvania Civil War Sesquicentennial roadshow. I was heartily impressed with the quality of interpretation and exhibit design. For a rolling exhibit which needs to fold in upon itself, it was very rich and powerful. Jared Frederick, proprietor of History Matters had a nice roundup of what that exhibit comprises.

Live Out Loud, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

Our 10th season is coming to a close and it is a bitter sweet time for the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus. Our beloved Director, Barbara Wagner is retiring and passing the conductor's want onto a new Artistic Director. Barbara has taken the men of the BGMC from poor performers to a well-known and sought after singing group in just 9 years.

Museum Technology And Scholarship, Mary Martha Perehinec-Germano

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

In the 21st century, technology permeates nearly every aspect of society. The process of scholarship and the way information is retrieved and utilized has been affected by technology. The museum has undergone efforts to incorporate technology into its operations, from interactive exhibitions and digital collections to social media websites. In a technology-infused world, museums must strive to be relevant to all of their audiences, including to its scholars and professional researchers. Museums also have to contend with external influences, such as social and economic trends, that affect museums’ decisions on many operational aspects, including whether or not to implement technology …

Crescendo!, Spring/ Summer 2011, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

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

Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.

Drawing A Line In The Sand: Copyright Law And New Museums, Megan M. Carpenter

Law Faculty Scholarship

Over the last twenty years, audience attendance at museums, galleries, and performing arts institutions in the United States has decreased dramatically. Major museums and galleries are considering ways to add engaging and meaningful value to the user experience with technology, from incorporating user-generated content to creating multimedia installations billed as “collaborative” works.

In 2010, the Dallas Museum of Art’s Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea exhibition featured landscapes from 1850 to the present, as well as a sound installation composed by students and faculty in the Arts and Technology program at the University of Texas at Dallas, which played on …

A Museum In A Book: Analyzing Culture Through Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies, Sharon Verner Chappell, Drew Chappell

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

This paper explores the positivist, museum-based, and touristic constructions of indigenous cultures in the Americas, as represented in the DK Eyewitness series, and then overturns these constructions using an artist book created by the authors. In our analysis of the nonfiction series, we identified three trajectories: cataloguing, consignment to the past, and pleasurable display. Using techniques borrowed from "new historiography" and the decolonizing methodologies of Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999), we suggest ways in which adults and young people might "speak back" to these positivist paradigms.

Woven Kin: Exploring Representation And Collaboration In Navajo Weaving Exhibitions, Teresa Maria Montoya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Following recent trends in scholarship that establish museums as complex sites where representations of Native American cultures are actively negotiated, this thesis explores the relationship between representational strategies and the employment of critical Indigenous methodologies by museum institutions in the display of Navajo weavings. A postcolonial theoretical framework is utilized to analyze six Navajo weaving exhibition installments over the past decade. Additionally, a critical reflection is offered about the development of the author's collaborative exhibition, Na'ashjé'ii Biką' Biyiin (Chant of the Male Spider): A Holistic Journey with Diné Weaver Roy Kady, that reveals both the rewards and challenges of …

Taking Sides, But Who’S Counting? The Decagonal Tomb Tower At Maragha

Textile Research Works

Lu and Steinhardt introduced the term “girih tiles” to describe the set of equilateral polygons that structures a colorful two-dimensional decagonal tiling on the Darb-e Imam in Isfahan, Iran (1453 CE) with distant roots in the five-fold symmetries articulated in brick on the Gonbad-e Qabud, a tomb tower dated to the late 12th century CE located at Maragha in western Iran. Their work seeks to establish the early existence of quasi-crystalline tilings long before such means of covering the plane were understood mathematically in the West. Questions remained unanswered as to whether those who constructed these monuments were aware of …

Art For Everyone: Building Inclusion Into Community Art Centers, Stacie Nussbaum Brennan

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This thesis explores the importance of building an inclusive and accessible community center environment, where people with and without disabilities can participate in programs together. It articulates the need for the Main Line Art Center, a visual arts community center, to develop an action plan that can serve as a model for other art centers in the Greater-Philadelphia region to carry out quality accommodations and accessible programs for individuals with disabilities.

Object Data Sheets, Historical Administration

Building Memories - Docs

No abstract provided.

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Tarble Art Center Archives Master Plan, Historical Administration, Tarble Arts Center

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Docs & Video

No abstract provided.

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Docs & Video

No abstract provided.

Reconstructing Lincoln Log Cabin - Design Brief, Historical Administration

2010-2011 Reconstructing Lincoln Log Cabin: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Coles County

No abstract provided.

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Paul Sargent's Coles County - Docs & Video

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An Investigation Into How Greater Financial Stability Can Be Achieved For Portugal’S National Museums Under Management Of The Portuguese Institute Of Museums And Conservation (Imc), Luis Ramos Pinto

MA Theses

The European sovereign debt crisis has led to considerable cuts in public funding for the arts. Portugal, one of the countries most affected by the crisis has recently seen consistent public cuts for its cultural organizations. With the prospect of continued budget cuts, this paper seeks to examine how Portugal's largest public institute for the management of museums and built heritage the IMC (Instituto de Museus e Conservação) can seek to generate more private revenue and lower its costs in order to garner greater financial stability for itself. The research, based primarily on financial information dating up to 2010 looks …

A New Way To Learn: Exploring Museum Theatre, Shelly Hanson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

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

Handbooks

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