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Arts+Culture

Performing Arts

Equity in opera

Published Fall 2021

IN Series opera company, led by a Peabody alum, launches the Cardwell Dawson Residency Program for singers of color / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Essays

Writing counsel

Published Fall 2021

Reviewing Academy Professor Alice McDermott's new collection of essays, 'What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction' / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Artificial Intelligence

Computer, composer

Published Fall 2021

Alum Carol Reiley's new project uses AI to help composers make music / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Illustration: Werewolf runs from angry mob of people with torches

Creative Writing

Kathy Flann wants to help movie monsters survive human attacks with her fourth book, an entertainingly preposterous collection of tips for werewolves, mummies, cyborgs, ghosts, and other movie monsters / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Archaeology of Disability exhibition includes carved stone stools and a television screen

Art History

An archeology of disability

Published Aug 10, 2021

An installation at the Venice Biennale reimagines elements of the Acropolis through the lens of disability

illustration of a microchip with binary 1s and 0s

Digital humanities

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation

Published July 15, 2021

Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities

Alphabetic text inscribed on a beadlike form

Archaeology

Dead letters

Published July 13, 2021

Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed

Bringing sustainability to fashion

Published July 8, 2021

Recent graduates Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn have launched Mo.Na. Gems, a jewelry store selling biodegradable earrings and necklaces of their own design