Why Study the Public Arts?

January 20, 2016

Why Study the Public Arts?

public art talk

Date: 20 Jan 2016 (Wed)

Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Venue: G24, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK

Speakers:

Prof. Susan Smulyan (Director, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and Professor, American Studies, Brown University)
Miss Kara Noto (MA student, MA programme in Public Humanities, Brown University)
Miss Emily Sellon (MA student, MA programme in Public Humanities, Brown University)

In this conversation, the speakers will briefly describe the Public Humanities program at Brown and then talk about two arts organizations in Providence: CityArts (http://providencecityarts.org/) and New Urban Arts (http://newurbanarts.org/)  both of which provide after-school arts classes for students (from elementary to high school) as well as serve as forms of public art.

 

Conducted in English.

Free admission. All are welcome.

Registration is not required.

Enquiry: 3943 1255 / cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk