Arts & Humanities
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- Assistant Professor Helanius Wilkins has won a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a choreographed duet. The 麻豆免费版下载College of Arts and Sciences matched the grant with another $10,000. With the funding, Wilkins and the 麻豆免费版下载dance division will collaborate with several presenter-partners, including Basin Arts and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Louisiana and Keshet Center for the Arts in New Mexico.
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- Video: Professor discusses right-wing misappropriation of Viking culture amid 鈥楾he Northman鈥 releaseWhite supremacists are touting the new blockbuster 鈥淭he Northman鈥 for its all-white cast and 鈥渕acho barbarian stereotypes.鈥 In this video, Mathias Nordvig, head of the Nordic Studies Program, explains how these groups are misappropriating Viking culture and how it impacts Nordic communities in the U.S. and abroad.
- Amy Hoagland received the top award from new program that recognizes emerging craft artists who advance sustainability through their art.聽Hoagland's work is also on display at the 麻豆免费版下载Art Museum through April 14.
- 麻豆免费版下载Boulder Professor Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz explains the history of the Oscars, the pressure on the academy to be more inclusive and the changes that still need to be made in Hollywood.
- Computational linguist Alexis Palmer spoke with 麻豆免费版下载Boulder Today about the popular online word game, strategies to win and how Wordle offshoots could benefit lesser-known languages.