Cultures of Play: Learning from Children
Sunday, May 19, 2013
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Perelman Media Room and Café
Join Collab and PennDesign's Orkan Telhan for an illustrated lecture on how children play. Trained at the MIT Media Laboratory, Telhan will discuss his research with the LEGO Learning Institute and other forums exploring the educational and social components that motivate kids to be creative alone and with each other. The Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Emerging Design Practices at the University of Pennsylvania, Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher.
Rose Susan Hirschhorn Behrend Lecture: Explosion in a Shingle Factory: the Armory Show and Modernism in America
Sunday, May 19, 2013
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Paid tickets required$12 ($10 members, $5 students with ID), ticket required
Ticket includes admission to lecture only; admission to galleries requires a separate ticket.
With Carol Troyen, Kristin and Roger Servison Curator Emerita of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
A showcase for recent American art as well as a survey of European painting, the Armory Show was met with both derision and enthusiasm. It revolutionized modernism in the United States--this lecture will describe how that happened.For more information, please contact The Division of Education by phone at (215) 684-7580, by fax at (215) 236-4063, or by e-mail at .
