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2024 Wheelwright Prize: Thandi Loewenson Wins Harvard University's $100,000 Architectural Research Fellowship
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2024 Wheelwright Prize: Thandi Loewenson Wins Harvard University’s $100,000 Architectural Research Fellowship

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jul 6, 2024 • No Comments
AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER AND RESEARCHER, Thandi Loewenson (b. 1989) wants to learn more about the connections between land and African liberation and dig deeper to understand how the racist exploits of colonialism have influenced not only dispossession and redistribution of surface terrain, but also bear on resources below ground and high up in the atmosphere....
Kara Walker Among 8 Recipients of Harvard University's Annual Du Bois Medal
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Kara Walker Among 8 Recipients of Harvard University’s Annual Du Bois Medal

by Victoria L. Valentine on Sep 26, 2017 • No Comments
Embed from Getty Images   AFTER CAUSING A STIR when she announced the lengthy, provocative title of her latest exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins, Kara Walker is being honored with a W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Walker is among eight recipients of the 2017 award, including...

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