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Affiliated PhD Student

Stephanie Gibson

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PhD Candidate in the History of Art Department

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    Stephanie Gibson is an art/architectural historian and cultural critic interested in the ways in which groups and societies construct their monumental landscape. She holds a BA magna cum laude from Emory University and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation looks at monuments of the Black Atlantic to examine the varied ways architects and other designers have responded to the large and important challenges of representing and repairing the trauma and loss suffered by these communities. Her work provides a theoretical framework, rooted in Black memory studies, for understanding the methods and techniques that are utilized in the creation of new monuments that memorialize trauma and pain in an effort to correct the historical record. 

    She has presented her work at conferences including the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures at the University of Toronto and the 2021 Bermuda Cultural Stakeholder Conference. Her paper “The Same but not Quite: An Exploration of the Mythology and Mimicry of the Bermudian Gombey Costume” was published in the peer-reviewed University of Toronto art journal, The Wollesen.

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Alisa Chiles

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    Assistant Curator, PENN Museum

    PhD candidate in the History of Art Department

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      Faculty Fellow

      Ken Lum

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      Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor

      Chair of Fine Arts

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      Ken Lum is the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design. Prior to coming to Penn, Lum was Head of the Graduate Program in Studio Art at the University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and Graduate Professor at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College. He is co-founder and founding Editor of Yishu: The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. Lum was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999 and awarded a Killam Award for Outstanding Research in 1998 and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award in 2007. He has served on the Board of Directors for the The PowerPlant (Toronto), Annie Wong Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Arts Initiative Tokyo, and Centre A (Vancouver). He was co-curator of Shanghai Modern: 1919-1945 and Sharjah Biennial 7. He recently co-curated Monument Lab: A Public Art and History Project in Philadelphia.

      Selected Publications

      Lum, Ken. 2016. “The Figure in the Carpet.” Catalog essay for the exhibition Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland.

      Lum, Ken. 2009. “Dear Steven.” In Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), edited by Steven Madoff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

      Lum, Ken and Hubert Damisch. 2008. Ultimo Bagaglio. Paris: Three Star Books.

      Lum, Ken. 1999. “Canadian Cultural Policy: A Metaphysical Problem.” In Conference 1: Inside Out: Reassessing International Cultural Influence. Wroclaw, Poland: Apexart.

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Marina Peterson

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      Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

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        Marina Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. An anthropologist, her work traces modalities of matter, sensory attunements, and emergent socialities, exploring diverse and innovative ways of encountering and presenting the ethnographic. Her research has explored multi-scalar dimensions of urban space through the study of sensory, sonic, and embodied processes ranging from musical performance to planning and labor. She has conducted ethnographic research in Los Angeles, Singapore, and Appalachian Ohio. Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies, Space and Culture, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Urban Anthropology.

        Her most recent book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles traces environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through noise pollution legislation and the politics of airport noise in the 1960s, addressing key ways in which noise amplifies ways of sensing and making sense of the atmospheric. Engaging with a burgeoning literature on forces, attunements, and forms of containment that bring the atmospheric into focus, she examines crucial ways in which noise has been central to how we know how to feel and think atmospherically. 

        Selected Publications

        Peterson, Marina. 2021. Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles. Duke University Press.

        Peterson, Marina. 2010. Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

        Bakke, Gretchen and Marina Peterson (eds.). 2017. Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art. London: Bloomsbury.

        Bakke, Gretchen and Marina Peterson (eds.). 2016. Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader. London: Bloomsbury.

        Peterson, Marina and Gary McDonogh (eds.) 2012. Global Downtowns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

        Faculty Fellow

        Mark Stern

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        Professor of Social Policy and History

        Principal Investigator, Social Impact of the Arts Project

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          Mark Stern is Professor of Social Policy and History. He is also is founder and principal investigator of the Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP), a research group at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. Since 1994 Stern had led project-based inquiry, with support largely by external private and public funders, that conceptualizes culture and the arts as integral to social wellbeing and develops methods for measuring the impact of this sector on community life in Philadelphia and other U.S. cities. Stern holds a Ph.D. in history from York University in Toronto, Canada and a B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

          Selected Publications

          Stern, Mark and Susan C. Seifert. 2017. The Social Wellbeing of New York City’s Neighborhoods: The Contribution of Culture and the Arts. SIAP Research Report.

          Stern, Mark. 2011. Age and Arts Participation: A Case against Demographic Destiny. National Endowment for the Arts monograph.

          Stern, Mark and Susan C. Seifert. 2014. Communities, Culture, and Capabilities: Preliminary Results of a Four-­City Study. SIAP Research Report.

          Stern, Mark and Susan C. Seifert. 2013. Cultural Ecology, Neighborhood Vitality, and Social Wellbeing—A Philadelphia Project. SIAP Research Report. 

          Fellow

          Lily Yeh

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          Global Artist and Founder, Barefoot Artists

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            Lily Yeh is Global Artist and Founder of the organization Barefoot Artists. Her expertise is in community healing and building through the arts. Yeh was Professor of Painting and Art History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1968 through 1998. She is a founder of The Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia where she worked as Executive and Artistic Director from 1968 to 2004. Yeh’s mission at Barefoot Artists is to use art as a transformative power to foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development, and preserve indigenous art and culture. Her ventures at Barefoot Artists have led her through North America, Europe, Africa, China, and India. Using art as a medium for social revival and change, she has positively influenced many impoverished communities worldwide.

             

            Selected Publications

            Yeh, Lily. 2011. Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms. Oakland, CA: New Village Press.

            Yeh, Lily. 2011. “Painting Hope in the World.” In Dream of a Nation: A Vision for a Better America, edited by Tyson Miller, designed by Kelly Spitzner.

            Yeh, Lily. 2011. Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration. Yes! Online Magazine, November. 

             

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