Monthly Archives: April 2012

Truth, Trust and Fracking, A Program at the Wagner Institute of Science for Philly Science Fest!

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The Wagner Free Institute of Science, Located at 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19121

We often see debates between experts on scientific issues that affect our lives and livelihoods. What can we do when the experts disagree but their decisions have enormous impacts on us? Do we try to influence their debate? Do we trust one side? Do we trust our gut feelings? Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale has brought up these questions and issues. Join us for a panel discussion with speakers from a number of fields and disciplines who will help us understand the way we access and understand information and help us apply lessons learned from history in our decision-making process.

Moderator:
Babak Ashrafi, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

Panel:
Susan Phillips, Reporter for WHYY and NPR, contributor to State Impact PA
Brook Lenker, Director of Fractracker.org
Sara Wylie, Director of Toxics and Health Research, publiclaboratory.org

The second annual Philadelphia Science Festival, taking place April 20-29, is presented by The Dow Chemical Company to celebrate science and technology. More than 105 institutions, museums and cultural and community centers are planning lectures, debates, hands-on activities and special exhibitions, most of them free. http://www.philasciencefestival.org/

Tom Finkelpearl on Public Art

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TOM FINKELPEARL ON PUBLIC ART April 17, 2:30 PM, Paley Library Public art has a way of sparking discussion and community action. Sometimes controversial, sometimes intriguing and sometimes aesthetically displeasing, public art exists in almost every city and town. Join Tom Finkelpearl in a discussion on the process behind these sometimes divisive, sometimes unifying artworks that reside in the public sphere. Tom Finkelpearl is currently the director of the Queens Museum of Art, and is a foremost expert on public art. He has approached the topic from nearly every angle: as an administrator while directing NYC’s Percent for Art Fund, as a practicing artist in New York, and as a scholar and author of Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press). Join him at Paley Library to discuss public art, and the role public arts projects play in planning and defining our cities.

Annual Foundations Lecture: Artists & Authors, Ellen Harvey

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Please note, lecture will be held at Tyler School of Art

The Foundations Department and Temple University Libraries, with the support of the General Activities Fund, present the Annual Foundations Lecture:
Artists & Authors, Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey’s work is in museum collections in the U.S. and Europe. A New Yorker, Harvey has had one-person exhibits in museums and galleries and completed noted public art commissions with Creative Time, Chicago Transit Authority and MTA Arts for Transit. She is currently working on a mosaic for the new Metro-North Yankee Stadium Station. Her book The New York Beautification Project was published by Gregory Miller and Co. in 2005. A catalog of her work, Ellen Harvey: Mirror, was published by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in conjunction with her exhibition there in 2006.