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Pennsylvania Humanities N e w s l e t t e r o f t h e P e n n s y l v a n i a H u m a n i t i e s C o u n c i l D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 5
New Vision for Commonwealth Speakers
The Pennsylvania Humanities Council is proud to announce the launch of its 2006-2007 Commonwealth Speakers program. The 125 presentations in the new line-up represent the most diverse range of programming in Commonwealth Speakers’ 24-year history.
Before re-visioning the program for 2006-2007, the PHC conducted extensive research on the kinds of presentations that would best serve Pennsylvanians (see page 6). We learned that in addition to the ever-popular lecture format, organizations and individuals across the state craved—and would benefit from—more intergenerational, participatory programs. That’s the mix you’ll find in Commonwealth Speakers 2006-2007.
Commonwealth Speakers has always been a powerful and effective means to reach new audiences for the humanities—an estimated 50% of attendees at past Speakers events had never been to a humanities program before. The unique and engaging new line-up, including many presentations designed to be enjoyed by families, is sure to attract a broader audience than ever with such programs as: Crisis Game: The U.N. Security Council During a World Crisis: International policy expert Craig Eisendrath leads participants in “playing” representatives from around the globe and debating potential solutions to a mock crisis.
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In the Lineage: A Recent History of Dance:Dancer Lisa Kraus uses live demonstrations, slides, and video clips to examine some influential choreographers, the relationship between their ideas and the broader culture, and the ways in which dancers use their mentors’ ideas to develop new work.
Telling Family Stories:Memoirist Sharon O’Brien explores the relationships among culture, history, and family life and helps participants begin their own family histories.
Reaching New Audiences with Grassroots Groups
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Storyteller Linda Goss joins the new line-
up with presentations on traditional
children’s rhymes and on African
American storytelling traditions.
The range of subjects, the variety of expressions, and the methods of presentation of the new Commonwealth Speakers program promise to engage all of us in addressing critical issues of past and present and to help us appreciate and understand who we were, are, and want to be as members of a community, a Commonwealth, a country, and a world.
Randall Miller, Professor of History,
Saint JosephÕs University,
and new PHC Chair.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek on Family Programming
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Humanities and Quality of Life in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Communities across Pennsylvania are making the connection between a vibrant cultural scene and economic stability. No longer are cultural programs seen as the “icing on the cake” of a region’s economic health — we now know that these programs can actuallydriveeconomic growth, not just result from it.
The people of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties want all the benefits of humanities and arts programming, from fun and learning to job- and revenue-creation. The area has seen a spontaneous growth in the number of arts and humanities happenings in recent years, and local government and cultural institutions have stepped up to the plate to support and guide further activity.
In August, the PHC joined county and state government, business, and funding leaders as well as national experts for aLackawanna Countycultural planning session at Scranton’s Everhart Museum. Discussion focused on practical issues such as gaining support from public officials and community members, accurately assessing the region’s needs, and setting realistic goals. Lackawanna County is currently developing a county cultural plan, and its Council on the Arts has made Arts and Cultural Grants available for projects that “enrich the cultural life of the residents of Lackawanna County.”
Exciting news is also coming out of neighboringLuzerne County,where a cultural renaissance is well underway. After conducting a feasibility study and hosting public forums to gauge interest and support, the Cultural Council of Luzerne County has partnered with the County government, the city of Wilkes-Barre, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Greater Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes University, and other area universities to plan a community arts and cultural center that will house spacious performance and reception venues, three galleries, and office space for arts and other nonprofit organizations. According to the Cultural Council’s Shelley Pearce, “with support from the county, the city, and corporate leaders, Luzerne County is uniquely poised — as we have never been before — to write a new chapter in our cultural history.”
The PHC has been on the scene in Lackawanna, Luzerne, and surrounding counties and has made significant contributions to the revitalization of our communities through its positive presence here. Our sense of value as individuals and our appreciation of our strengths as a community are reinforced as we gather together to share in the exciting adventure of lifelong learning. – Jeanne A. Bovard, PHC Council Member
and Director of the Scranton Area Foundation
The PHC is a member of the
Governor’s Arts & Heritage
Committee, an informal advisory
group. In cooperation with the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and
the Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, it is helping
with Lackawanna County’s cultural
planning efforts.
The PHC at Work in Lackawanna and Luzerne
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The PHC has been putting our resources to work in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties for years. Since 2000,
PHC grants have funded 22 humanities programs in the two counties;
68 Commonwealth Speakers talks have occurred at the counties’ libraries, museums, historical sites, and community organizations; and
Read About It! book discussion programs have been hosted by 9 different libraries.
In a unique collaboration, the Lackawanna County Library System joined with the Everhart Museum and the Scranton Cultural Center to present “Folk Art: A Mirror on American and African Lives.” The multi-event project, funded by a Humanities Grant, used American and African folk art objects from the Everhart Museum’s collection to inspire thinking and discussion about the impact and role of folk art in everyday life. Among the topics of the various exhibits and lectures were “African Women as Creators: The Potter’s Art” and “Pennsylvania Fraktur: Its Role in the Community.”
Some other great projects presented in the two counties with PHC help include:
“The Summer History Series” at the Frances Slocum State Park in Luzerne County, which included outdoor programs on Native American life and folklore, American folk music, and living history presentations about the Revolutionary War and about Frances Slocum, the park’s famous namesake.
“CSI – Wilkes-Barre” at the Osterhout Free Library, which comprised three book discussion groups, a lecture, and a panel discussion on the use of forensic evidence in fiction and in real life.
“The Potter’s Apprentice” at the Mahady Gallery of Scranton’s Marywood University, which included an exhibit of the work of three important lines of American potters, along with lectures and pottery workshops for community me mbers from middle schoolers to seniors.
Images from “Folk Art: A Mirror on African and American Lives.”
Spreading the programs among the library, the cultural center, and the art museum gave people from all parts of the county an opportunity to participate and to learn about the commonalities between American and African art forms in interesting and entertaining ways. Working with our humanities scholars and with staff from collaborating organizations gave us the chance to learn more about the resources we have to offer each other as well as the knowledge and the confidence we need to move forward and begin to involve other area organizations. – Mary Garm, Project Director of ÒFolk Art: A Mirror on American and African LivesÓ
Ceramist Jordan Taylor gives a pottery workshop to local high school students as part of Marywood University’s “The Potter’s Apprentice.”
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Reaching New Audiences with Grassroots Groups
People are more likely to attend cultural programs at grassroots community venues than at any other type of location, according to recent research. Many people who would not venture to a university campus for a lecture or to a concert hall for a performance may well attend a similar event held at their neighborhood park, senior center, or church.
Because grassroots groups, by definition, are an integral part of their surrounding communities, they are uniquely suited to judge what types of programs community members want and need and how to structure these programs for maximum impact on that community.
The PHC recognizes the great potential of grassroots groups to serve as centers of lifelong learning and to reach new audiences for the humanities. We also recognize the challenges that such organizations face. So, every year, we use our grants and our speakers bureau to help dozens of grassroots groups — many with few resources and little humanities experience — offer high-quality humanities and arts programs.
Community venues are places where two experiences can occur: people with important social and civic objectives encounter arts and cultural experiences, and people interested in arts and culture become acquainted with the institutions that help structure our common life. – From ÒBuilding Arts Participation: New Findings
from the Field,Ó a 2002 report by The Urban Institute
The Roaring Creek and Catawissa Valley Historical Study Group in rural Columbia County is just one example of a grassroots group with a big idea that the PHC was excited to help implement. The Study Group meets monthly to learn about — and share with friends and neighbors — the “history in our own backyard,” according to member Wayne Petro. The group has completed various community projects, including cleaning and preserving local trails and small historic sites.
The Study Group used a grant from the PHC’s Our Stories, Our Future initiative to present “A Field of Our Own,” which included a lecture and discussion about the role of baseball parks in American rural life, an exhibition of historic baseball and Catawi ssa photos, and a 1940s-style baseball game played by two teams outfitted in vintage unforms. The event attracted about a thousand people from the neighborhood and the region.
Ball players emerge from a cornfield to play 1940s-style baseball as part of “A Field of Our Own” in Columbia County.
Building Bridges with
Grassroots Groups
The Ayuda Community Center provides an emergency food cupboard, a free legal clinic, and low-cost after-school and summer childcare to residents of the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia. In August, the Center used a Humanities-and-the-Arts Grant to create a “Community Bridge Mural.”
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The project began with two meetings led by an artist and a humanities expert during which community members discussed living conditions in Hunting Pa the impact of art on society, and what themes and images they’d like to see portrayed on their community mural.
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Then, over 45 children and 5 local artists used the community’s ideas to conceive and paint a vibrant mural on a neighborhood bridge. The painting workshops were also an opportunity to talk with the children about art, society, and history.
The Coal Country Youth Hang-Out Center crossed a similar bridge with the help of a Humanities Grant. The Center is an integral part of its rural Cambria County community, offering recreational space for teens two nights per week, a small daycare facility, a computer center, and rooms where other community groups can meet. The Center teamed up with a local puppet troupe and a history scholar to offer workshops that combined learning about the local history of the coal industry with the making of puppets and the public performance of a puppet show about “King Coal.”
The children developed a deep sense of personal pride in their creative efforts and were made aware of their own ethnic background for the first time. Representatives of two separate historical societies were present and expressed a desire to collaborate with us on future endeavors. This project has given us the encouragement to continue focusing on our regional and historic past. – Ann Staples, Project Director of ÒKing CoalÓ at Cambria CountyÕs Coal Country Youth Hang-Out Center
The Windber Area Visioning Experience, which its founder Blair Murphy calls “a small town’s tiny team for creating projects,” hosted a 4-day “Kerouac Fest” in Somerset County that included a marathon 12-hour reading of Kerouac’sOn the Road,live jazz music, mini-classes about the Beats and related artistic and historical issues, and lectures about censorship and artistic freedom.
Part of the mural envisioned by residents of Hunting Park and painted by their children, with help from local artists.
We were looking to pass on the importance and the power of the arts and the humanities by painting. Local residents would come up to us and stop to paint or talk or just to say thanks. People gave me their information and asked about helping with other projects. This project also helped us to meet artists in the area who came out to work with us and are interested in working together in the future. – Suzanna Lanza, Project Director for
Community Bridge Mural
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Family Programs that Work: An Interview with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
The PHC wants to make the humanities accessible to every Pennsylvanian, and we are always looking for new and better ways to do that. In 2005, with funds generously provided by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, we began researching family learning and how to make the programs we plan and fund more attractive and meaningful to families.
What follows is an interview with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, one of eleven scholars and programming experts who helped PHC with our research. Dr. Hirsh-Pasek is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of human development and language acquisition, a professor of psychology at Temple University, and the author of many scholarly and popular titles. Her most recent book, coauthored with Roberta Golinkoff, isEinstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children REALLY Learn — And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less(Rodale Press, 2003).
PHC:In Einstein Never Used Flashcards, you wrote that “PLAY = LEARNING.” Is that true for adults as well as for children?
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek:Absolutely. We all learn best when we like something.
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Sitting and listening is not always the best way to learn. Think about going to a place like Williamsburg, where there are peop le acting out the stories from that time period. That’s the kind of thing that engages us and helps us learn. As adults, we have to learn to play again.
PHC:are so few programs geared toward families — adults and children together. Do you think it’s hard for people to envisionThere learning opportunities that really work for both?
KHP:Itishard to envision programs that are great for families. We’re not used to thinking about integrated, intergenerational learning anymore. We separate so many of our activities out by age. Family programs often turn into child programs in which parents can help teachers teach. But a true family program is one in which teachers, parents, and children are learners togethe r.
Family programs that work for both children and parents will include stories and activities that they can enjoy together — treasure hunts, building games, charades, jeopardy. Families can make something together, they can experience something together, and they all walk away richer. I think we’d be pretty impressed by what happens when we find opportunities for children and adults to play together.
PHC:How would you respond to skeptics who think that any humanities program that both kids and adults can enjoy is just “humanities lite”?
Learning about Civil War-era medicine at
the National Constitution Center’s
“Lincoln Family Fun Day.”
KHP:It’s not true at all! When you have whole families engaged in learning, it’s a deeper learning experience. In my books, I talk about “play with guidance.” Even young children can learn unbelievably deep things when they’re presented in an engaging way. If you play something, you absorb it.
Stories hold the keys to good programming. We don’t tell stories anymore, but we do live through our personal stories. And what are the humanities? Collections of stories — narratives of people’s lives, religions, culture, past and future. If we can tell our stories in exciting ways and can experience the stories through symbols and rituals, then we can all learn together.
PHC:Thanks so much for helping us research this important issue.
KHP:I find what the PHC is doing so exciting and I’m glad to be a part of it!
We have a unique opportunity to make the humanities live again by helping families thrive. Families get so little time together. Family programs provide a model for how to learn and how to reconnect with family and the broader community, as well as an opportunity to get real information about the narratives that make us who we are.
Council News
Randall Miller,Professor of History at Saint Joseph’s University and PHC Council member since 2002, became the new Chair of the PHC Council on November 1, 2005. Also playing new leadership roles on the Council areMichael Tomor, Executive Director of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art and former PHC Chair, who became Vice Chair; and John Vanco,Director of the Erie Art Museum, who became the new Secretary-Treasurer.
PHC welcomes two new Council members:Sharon A. Brown, Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Moravian College, andC. Reynold Verret,Dean of the Misher College of Arts and Sciences of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
PHC thanks and bids farewell to four wonderful people who have served in leadership positions on our Council: Sharon Dale,Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State – Erie;Dale Mitchell,Executive Director (ret.) of Delaware Valley Grantmakers;H. Sheldon Parker,General Manager/CEO (ret.) of the Pennsylvania Public Television Network; andJanice Trapp, Director of the James V. Brown Library of Williamsport. They will be missed!
Congratulations to Council member Jeanne Schmedlen,who was named a Distinguished Daughter of Penn-sylvania at the Governor’s Residence on October 18, 2005 for her leadership and important contributions to the Commonwealth. In addition to being the first Pennsylvanian appointed by two successive governors of opposite parties to serve on the PHC Council, Jeanne is a writer, producer, the first-ever chief of protocol of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and the co-director of the Capital Centennial Commission.
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We are also proud to announce that Council memberMichael Birkner, Professor of History at Gettysburg College, is chairing the three-member panel for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History. He shares the panel with the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in History, David Hackett Fischer of Brandeis University, and with Evelyn Higginbotham of Harvard University. The panel’s job is to recommend 3 from among over 100 nominated history books to the Pulitzer Board, which makes the final decisions for all the prize categories.
PHC Staff News
The PHC said fond farewells this year to Program/Communications Associate Claire Lawrence, Office Assistant Mareeda Perry, and Commonwealth Speakers Coordinator Mary Bear Shannon. We wish them well!
We are joined byNicholas Gilewicz, our new Program Associate, who has taken charge of the Commonwealth Speakers program and will work on PHC public relations. Nick, who is originally from Buffalo, NY, studied the humanities at the University of Chicago and formerly worked for National Public Radio and Random House, Inc. We are also joined by Office AssistantEboni Dyson,a senior at Philadelphia’s Frankford High School.
Council Information
The Pennsylvania Humanities Council inspires individuals to enjoy and share a life of learning enriched by human experience across time and around the world. The PHC integrates the humanities into everyday life through partner ships with cultural institutions and community organizations.
Randall M. Miller, Chair, Glen Mills Michael A. Tomor, Vice Chair, Altoona John Vanco, SecretaryTreasurer, Erie Michael Birkner, Gettysburg Jeanne A. Bovard, Scranton Sharon A. Brown, Bethlehem Cheryl McClenneyBrooker, Philadelphia Jacqueline J. Melander, State College Glenn R. Miller, Mechanicsburg Terrence J. Murphy, McMurray Ralph L. Pearson, Wexford Jeanne H. Schmedlen, Lemoyne Kathryn Stephanoff, Allentown C. Reynold Verret, Philadelphia
Joseph J. Kelly, Executive Director Laurie Zierer, Assistant Director R. Mimi Iijima, Senior Program Officer Beth Gallagher, Program Officer Virginia Fahey, Grants/Administrative Officer Nicholas Gilewicz, Program Associate Peggy Cameron, Fiscal Officer Mirta Reyes, Information Associate Eboni Dyson, Office Assistant
Pennsylvania Humanities Beth Gallagher, Editor Cloud Weber Design, Graphic Design
PHC Council member Jeanne Schmedlen receiving the Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania citation and medal from First Lady Marjorie Rendell.
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Two Variations on the Jazz Theme
Jazz took center stage at both of the PHC’s public receptions in 2005.
In June, PHC hosted a celebration of the humanities at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The audience was treated to a discussion and performance by renowned saxophonist and educator Nathan Davis and his band, Tomorrow. The June event also highlighted Our Stories, Our Future, the PHC’s new programming initiative on American history.
On December 7, the PHC unveiled our new Commonwealth Speakers program with a public reception at Philadelphia’s Atwater Kent Museum. We were joined by Bob Perkins, jazz expert and DJ at Philadelphia’s WRTI, and by Tony Williams, saxophonist, bandleader, and jazz educator — both winners of the Mellon Jazz Community Award. Perkins and Williams discussed Philadelphia’s rich jazz history, and Williams and his band entertained the audience throughout the evening.
These events were generously supported by Mellon Financial Corporation, with additional funds from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the Donald & Sylvia Robinson Foundation, and the Friends of the PHC.
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