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A new crowd-sourced art project invites contributors from around the world to submit posters celebrating national parks and other sites and landscapes in the United States. Reflections on the origins of the first “See America” campaigns as well as a few wishes for what the current incarnation might include.
I have to admit, I was more than a little bit intrigued to read Parked! How Congress’ Misplaced Priorities Are Trashing Our National Treasures, a report
Women in Preservation (WIP) is hosting an exciting breakfast this November 19. Registration and speaker information after the jump.
The end of summer, the season of road trips and family vacations, cross-country moves and college drop-offs, is a fitting moment to reflect on how highways and automobiles have changed the ways in which we view and interact with landscape. An exhibit currently at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes,offers varied perspectives on this question as well as evocative views of the late 20th century United States.
The landscape surrounding Carrie Furnaces, a National Historic Landmark in Rankin, Pennsylvania, has dramatically changed in the decades since the U.S. Steel Works in nearby Homestead dominated the nation’s industrial production. Thoughts on why this change is important and how it enhances interpretation of the site’s story.
A new crowd-sourced art project invites contributors from around the world to submit posters celebrating national parks and other sites and landscapes in the United States. Reflections on the origins of the first “See America” campaigns as well as a few wishes for what the current incarnation might include.
I have to admit, I was more than a little bit intrigued to read Parked! How Congress’ Misplaced Priorities Are Trashing Our National Treasures, a report
Women in Preservation (WIP) is hosting an exciting breakfast this November 19. Registration and speaker information after the jump.
The end of summer, the season of road trips and family vacations, cross-country moves and college drop-offs, is a fitting moment to reflect on how highways and automobiles have changed the ways in which we view and interact with landscape. An exhibit currently at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes,offers varied perspectives on this question as well as evocative views of the late 20th century United States.
The landscape surrounding Carrie Furnaces, a National Historic Landmark in Rankin, Pennsylvania, has dramatically changed in the decades since the U.S. Steel Works in nearby Homestead dominated the nation’s industrial production. Thoughts on why this change is important and how it enhances interpretation of the site’s story.