#Henry Luce Foundation

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Nizhónígo Hadadít’eh, They are Beautifully Dressed

Currently on exhibition at RISD Museum through September 29nth 2024

Diné (Navajo) apparel design is constantly evolving, often in response to historical events. After Spanish colonists introduced Churro sheep to what is now the Southwest United States in the late 1500s, Diné developed a Navajo-Churro breed that produced wool ideal for weaving. By the 1800s, Diné women were creating wool blankets, mantas, and other forms of apparel. After the 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo subjected Diné to US federal government rule, forced assimilation, and American capitalism, Diné apparel transitioned from woven wool textiles to sewn commercial fabrics. As non-Natives began collecting Diné textiles, Diné weavers also created designs for hanging on walls. The patterns woven by Diné women in the 1800s reflect Diné aesthetics and beliefs. While we can appreciate these works through the lens of art and design, it is a disservice to overlook their cultural meanings. Diné bizaad (Navajo language; pronounced de-NEH biz-AHD) has no word for “art,” but Diné style is distinct and married to hózhó (balance, beauty, and harmony; HOZH-oh). This idea is demonstrated through symmetrical geometric design, light and dark color, and the continuance of the practice by way of matriarchal teaching. Diné textiles were and continue to be sources of design inspiration, as well as objects of cultural appropriation. Despite hardship, Diné resilience drives creativity forward. We honor and appreciate the generations of Diné weavers who, through hózhó, have designed beautiful garments for beautiful people.  –Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art Shándíín Brown, Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art Tʼáá íiyisíí ahéheeʼ (thank you very much) to Diné weaver Chris Brown, Diné scholar Ty Metteba, and Thierry Gentis, curator of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, for their contributions to this exhibition. Special thanks also to Diné artist Darby Raymond-Overstreet for designing the exhibition title and thumbnail. Diné Textiles: Nizhónígo Hadadít’eh (pronounced nizh-OH-NEE-go hah-dah-DEET-eh) is the work of the Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art, which is funded by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. RISD Museum is supported by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the generous partnership of the Rhode Island School of Design, its Board of Trustees, and Museum Governors.

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University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Postdoctoral Associate Position in Anthropology

Deadline: June 3 Length/Track: Apparently one year Description: “This postdoctoral associate will be focused on supporting the objectives of the Henry Luce Foundation funded project, “Living Together: Finding Democratic Diversity and Religious Coexistence in Colorado Springs and the Mountain West,” specifically the production of an ethnographic documentary film on the intersections of…

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PEMSEA Archaeological Field School in Indonesia Fall 2024

Join PEMSEA's 2024 Field School in Indonesia's Banda Islands for an immersive archaeological research experience, blending heritage studies with community engagement.

The Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia (PEMSEA) invites applications for its 2024 Field School in Indonesia’s Banda Islands, offering a month-long immersive experience in archaeological heritage research. Scheduled for October 2024, this program, supported by prominent institutions and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, will enable students to learn hands-on archaeological techniques,…

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Insights and Reflections from Syracuse University's Conference on the Religious Origins of White Supremacy

Insights and Reflections from Syracuse University's Conference on the Religious Origins of White Supremacy | The Henry Luce Foundation

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E.J. Kulas Estate Historic District

W. Hill Dr.

Gates Mills, OH

The main house on the E.J. Kulas Estate, located at the end of Hill Drive in Gates Mills, Ohio, United States was built in 1929.  Elroy J. Kulas, known as “E.J.”, was born in Cleveland in 1880. He received his education in Cleveland Public Schools. At age 18, he commenced his working career in the freight department of the B & O Railroad. Three years later, 1901, E. J. Kulas joined the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA). NELA had been formed through a joint venture of three organizations: Franklin S. Terry’s Sunbeam Incandescent Lamp Company of Chicago, Burton G. Tremaine’s Fostoria Incandescent Lamp Company of Fostoria, Ohio and General Electric Company, in which Kulas had a secret participation as a 75% stockholder.

     During World War I, “E.J.” left NELA and became one of the founders of Cuyahoga Stamping & Machine Company, which made cartridge cases for the Allied Armies. In 1917, Burton G. Tremaine and Franklin S. Terry, the co-founders of NELA, joined others in purchasing the Peerless Automobile Company and soon thereafter engaged E. J. Kulas as Sales Manager for that company.  In March 1923, “E.J.” left Peerless and formed the Midland Steel Products Company by merging the Parish & Bingham Company of Cleveland with the Detroit Pressed  Steel Co. and the Parish Manufacturing Company of Detroit. Years later and after  “E.J.’s” death, Midland Steel Products Co. became the core of Midland-Ross Corp.

     “E.J.” remained President of Midland Steel Products Co. from its founding until hisdeath in 1952. But in a highly unusual step, in 1925, he took on the additional responsibility of being President of Otis Steel Co., a position he held until 1942 when Otis Steel was bought by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. During 1928, “E.J.” permitted Margaret Bourke-White to photograph steelmaking in the Otis Steel plant. Later he became so enthusiastic about her work that he published and distributed a small booklet of 16 of her pictures to the stockholders of Otis Steel Company. That booklet and those photographs caught the eye of Henry Luce, who engaged her for his new magazine, “Fortune.” Several years later, when forming Life Magazine, Henry Luce asked Margaret Bourke-White to become one of the four original staff photographers.

    Industrialist E.J. Kulas had his large, impressive Tudor Revival estate erected in the early 1930's by Boston architect Charles R. Greco.   “E.J.’s” other business interests included directorship in the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad and the North American Coal Company.  In addition to his business career, “E.J.” was very interested in music and served as a vice-president of the Musical Arts Association as well as a trustee of both the Northern Ohio Opera Association and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society. He had a particular fondness for Baldwin-Wallace College, where he was a trustee for many years. The first major grant of the Kulas Foundation was $50,000 to Baldwin-Wallace for its Conservatory of Music.  Elroy J. Kulas died in his home in Cleveland on May 12, 1952.  The house was listed with the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on March 23, 1988.

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Presenting recent work by more than forty artists–including Yto Barrada, Iñaki Bonillas, Ellen Carey, Hernease Davis, Sheree Hovsepian, Roberto Huarcaya, Kei Ito, Dakota Mace, Fabiola Menchelli, Lisa Oppenheim, Daisuke Yokota, among many others–Direct Contact highlights many emerging global artists and features primarily women-identifying artists. Unfolding across five sections–Age, Form, Scale, Texture, and Value–Direct Contact positions cameraless photography as both an intellectual cornerstone in the medium’s history and an enduring and important force within contemporary art.

The exhibition is curated by Assistant Curator of Photography, Lauren Richman, whose research on the museum’s Henry Holmes Smith Archive was facilitated by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Smith (American, 1909–1986) was a photography professor at Indiana University and an early proponent of cutting-edge photographic techniques, including cameraless photography. His students included Jerry Uelsmann, Jack Welpott, and Betty Hahn.

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'Legendary' cognitive scientist Daniel Osherson, 'scientist of rare talent' and 'excellent and caring mentor,' dies at 73

‘Legendary’ cognitive scientist Daniel Osherson, ‘scientist of rare talent’ and ‘excellent and caring mentor,’ dies at 73

Daniel Osherson, Princeton’s Henry R. Luce Professor in Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of psychology, died at home in Princeton on Sept. 4 from complications due to Parkinson’s. He was 73 years old. One of the world’s leading experts on cognitive science, Osherson did foundational work on reasoning, epistemology, inductive logic,…

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Name: Nick Bowman ‘21 Major: Environmental Studies Organization: Kasetart University Position: Aquatic Animal Production and Conservation Intern Location: Bangkok, Thailand Term: Summer 2019

"My greatest takeaways have been a better understanding of Thai language and culture, respect for different academic systems seen in other countries, and an interest in international environmental issues. Because of this internship I have grown interested in combating environmental issues in developing nations, and finding a balance between economic and environmental sustainability."

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Imperfect History: Curating the Graphic Arts Collection at Benjamin Franklin’s Public Library, a two-year project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Graphic Arts Department, explores the development of the Library’s graphics art collection as it relates to historical and cultural biases within American history.

Imperfect History frankly examines the prints, photographs, original works of art on paper, and other graphics that epitomize the evolution of a pivotal public library.

The exhibition opens September 20th! Join us for the virtual opening HERE.

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After COVID, Davos Moves to Great Reset With the USA Biden Presidency, Washington has rejoined the Global Warming agenda of the Paris Accords. With China making loud pledges about meeting strict CO2 emission standards by 2060, now the World Economic Forum is about to unveil what will transform the way we all live in what WEF head Klaus Schwab calls the Great Reset. Make no mistake. This all fits into an agenda that has been planned for decades by old wealth families such as Rockefeller and Rothschild. Brzezinski called it the end of the sovereign nation state. David Rockefeller called it “one world government.” George H.W. Bush in 1990 called it the New World Order. Now we can better see what they plan to impose if we allow. The Great Reset of the World Economic Forum is a 21st Century rollout for a new form of global total control. “We only have one planet and we know that climate change could be the next global disaster with even more dramatic consequences for humankind. We have to decarbonise the economy in the short window still remaining and bring our thinking and behaviour once more into harmony with nature,” declared WEF founder Schwab about the January 2021 agenda. The last time these actors did something at all similar in scope was in 1939 on the very eve of World War II. War & Peace Studies At that time the Rockefeller Foundation financed a top secret strategy group working out of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. It was known as the War and Peace Studies and headed by ‘America’s Haushofer,’ geographer Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University. Before German Panzer tanks had even rolled into Poland, they were planning a postwar world where the United States would emerge as the sole victor and replace the British as the global hegemonic power. Formulation of a US-dominated United Nations and Bretton Woods monetary order based on the dollar was part of their project. In 1941 as America formally entered the war, the CFR group sent a memo to the US State Department: “If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect.” That successful project has been the framework of what Henry Luce in 1941 called the American Century, and lasted until quite recently. Now those same families, again including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rothschilds in the person of Lynn de Rothschild’s “Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican,” are moving to create the next generation in their pursuit of global domination. It’s being called the Great Reset. It requires global government, a plank significantly endorsed by the Jesuit Pope Francis. Its PR man, Klaus Schwab, is a self-admitted protégé of Rockefeller insider Henry Kissinger, from their days 50 years ago at Harvard. ‘Build Back Better’ In May, 2020 as the coronavirus had caused global panic lockdowns far beyond the initial outbreak in Wuhan, the British Crown Prince Charles, together with the World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, unveiled what they gleefully named the Great Reset. Increasingly world political and business leaders are using terms such as “the Great Reset,” or “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and the call to “Build Back Better” which the Biden Administration prefers. They all are anchored on the same set of dramatic global changes. The US Green New Deal and the EU European Green Deal are all part of it. The most striking fact about the agenda of the Great Reset is that it is being advanced by the same giga-rich plutocrat families responsible for the flaws of the present world economic model. They, not we, have created ruin of organic fields and nature with their Roundup glyphosate and toxic pesticides. They have ruined the air quality in our cities by the transportation models they force on us. They created the “free market” model of globalization that has ruined the industrial base of the United States and the industrial EU nations. Now, as they blame us for an alleged catastrophic emission of CO2, we’re being conditioned to accept guilt and be punished in order to “save the next generation” for Greta and friends. The 4th Industrial Revolution Behind the seductive rhetoric of the Powers That Be on creating a “sustainable” world, lies an agenda of raw eugenics, depopulation on a scale never before tried. It is not human, in fact, some call it “transhuman.” In 2016 WEF head Schwab wrote a book titled Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution. In it, he describes the technological changes coming with the 4th Industrial Revolution of 5G smart phones, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence that link everything to everything to make the most banal decisions for us such as buying more milk or turning down the stove. At the same time data is centralized in private corporations such as Google or Facebook to monitor every breath we take. Schwab describes how new generation technologies, already being rolled out by Google, Huawei, Facebook and countless others, will allow governments to “intrude into the hitherto private space of our minds, reading our thoughts and influencing our behavior…Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us — they will become part of us,” said Schwab. “Today’s external devices — from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets — will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains.” Schwab adds, “What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity.” Among those fusion technologies are, “active implantable microchips that break the skin barrier of our bodies,” Schwab explained. These “implantable devices will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally, through a ‘built-in’ smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or moods by reading brain waves and other signals.” I don’t know about you but I am not eager to have the state or Google read my brainwaves. Control Our Food The confusing aspect for many is the plethora of front groups, NGOs and programs which all lead to the same goal: the drastic control over every member of society in the name of sustainability—UN Agenda 2030. Nowhere is it more ominous than in their plans for the future of our food. After creating the present system of globalized industrial agriculture, agribusiness, a project begun in the 1950s by the Rockefeller Foundation, the same circles now advocate “sustainable” agriculture which will mean a shift to genetically edited fake foods, lab-made synthetic meats and such, even including worms and weeds as new food sources. The WEF’S Schwab has partnered with something called EAT Forum, which describes itself as a “Davos for food” that plans to “set the political agenda.” EAT was created in Sweden in 2016 with support from the UK Wellcome Trust (established with funds from GlaxoSmithKline), and the German Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Lab-grown synthetic gene-edited meats are being supported among others by Bill Gates, the same one backing Moderna and other genetically edited vaccines. EAT works among others with Impossible Foods and other biotech companies. Impossible Foods was initially co-funded by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Recent lab results showed the company’s imitation meat contained toxic glyphosate levels 11 times higher than its closest competitor. In 2017 EAT launched FReSH (Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) with the backing of Bayer AG, one of the world’s most toxic pesticide and GMO producers that now owns Monsanto; the China-owned GMO and pesticide giant Syngenta, Cargill, Unilever, DuPont and even Google. This is the planned food future under the Great Reset. Forget the traditional family farmer. In his 2020 book on The Great Reset, Schwab argues that biotechnology and genetically modified food should become a central pillar to global food scarcity issues, issues which COVID has exacerbated. He is pushing GMO and especially the controversial gene-editing. He writes “global food security will only be achieved if regulations on genetically modified foods are adapted to reflect the reality that gene editing offers a precise, efficient and safe method of improving crops.” Gates, a project partner with Schwab since years, has argued the same. EAT has developed what it refers to as “the planetary health diet,” which the WEF champions as the “sustainable dietary solution of the future.” But according to Federic Leroy, a food science and biotechnology professor at University of Brussels, “The diet aims to cut the meat and dairy intake of the global population by as much as 90% in some cases and replaces it with lab-made foods, cereals and oil.” Like everything else with the Great Reset, we will not be given a real choice in food. EAT notes it will be forced on us by, “hard policy interventions that include laws, fiscal measures, subsidies and penalties, trade reconfiguration and other economic and structural measures.” We will all be forced to eat the same synthetic diet or starve. This is just a hint of what is being prepared under the guise of COVID-19 lockdowns and economic collapse, and 2021 will be a decisive year for this anti-human agenda. The introduction of AI, robots, and other digital technologies will enable the Powers That Be to dispose of hundreds of millions of workplaces. Contrary to their propaganda, new jobs will not be sufficient. We will become increasingly “redundant.” This all seems too surreal until you read from their own descriptions. The fact that the cabal of the world’s most influential corporations and billionaires sit on the board of WEF with Kissinger’s student, Klaus Schwab, along with the head of the UN and of the IMF, with the CEOs of the world’s largest financial giants including Blackrock, BlackStone, Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank, David Rubenstein of Carlyle group, Jack Ma, richest billionaire in China, is proof enough this Great Reset is not being done with our true interests at heart, despite their silky words. This dystopian agenda is 1984 on steroids. COVID-19 was merely the prelude.

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“There is a hunger for the generative thinking that artists can supply,” said Roderick Schrock, the executive director of Eyebeam. “I think that interest comes from a general breakdown in trust for our world leaders.”

With $300,000 raised from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Eyebeam is providing significant resources to its artist cohort tasked with responding to “a time of crisis and systemic collapse” during the coronavirus pandemic. Each artist will receive $5,000 to develop their projects and a select number will receive an additional $25,000 in October.

Funded proposals include Maxwell Mutanda’s visualization of the mobile data gap in sub-Saharan Africa, where access to the internet is often expensive; Roopa Vasudevan’s field guide for artists looking to subvert surveillance technology; and Kyle McDonald’s critique of the controversial practice of predictive policing through machine learning.

And for artists like Rashaad Newsome, 40, the program has been an opportunity to dream big. Currently based in Oakland, Calif., Newsome is developing “Being 1.5,” a virtual therapist powered by artificial intelligence to respond to the collective trauma that African-Americans experience. The idea came to him amid the George Floyd protests. “Through critical thinking with the bot,” Mr. Newsome said, “I hope people will find new ways to navigate systems of oppression.”

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Remarkable Women, a case for 95 or more editorial pages

In March 1976, when Life’s editorial department was negotiating the size of the Remarkable American Women issue of Life Special Reports, Acting Managing Editor Edward Kern drafted this memorandum to the Magazine Development Group's acting head of editorial Kelso Sutton. In it he defends the idea of allocating just as many editorial pages (or more!) to the remarkable women as they did to the issue celebrating the United States bicentennial "The 100 Events That Shaped America." 

Besides pointing out the similarities between the two issues in making his case, Kern's main point was that some of the women would be not as well known to the average reader requiring the issue to fully tell their life stories. He states, "These women need to be experienced by the readers." Ultimately the Remarkable American Women issue was published in July 1976 with 166 women and 95 editorial pages.

Edward Kern memorandum to Kelso Sutton. March 5, 1976. Time Inc. Records. MS 3009.RG 40: Magazine Development Group Records: 1973-1978 Editorial Records: Editor Philip Kunhardt Files: People Test Issue: General, 1973.     

Processing of the Time Inc. Archive is made possible through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation 

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Mobile Photography

Film/Analog is the foundation of photography. In 1901, Kodak marked a revolutionary turn in photography when they released the Brownie Camera. Over the span of 100 years, an estimate of 85 billion photographs or printed in 1 year. Today we live in an era of Technology that allows us to carry a camera in almost all mobile devices. As the article states, 375 billion photos average throughout the year and 20% of that (70 Billion) are uploaded to the internet. Through the advancement of technology over the years, the concept of digital photography shifts to an argument of whether a photograph taken on the phone should be considered actual photography. 

As an example, Dutch photographer Robert Paul Jansen uses his Iphone 7+ to capture landscapes. Through online mobile apps such as Lightroom and Focus, The photographer creates the illusion of shooting as it were film when in reality it is all digital. Working as a freelance Iphone photographer, He has produced work for Stockly United and Trafalgar . 

https://www.robertpauljansen.com/

Iphone and Digital devices have made it possible for everyone to enjoy photography and/or become a photographer in their own way. 

For a topic such as photojournalism, Aikbeng Chai travels around Singapore with his Iphone as a part of Documentary photography. Chai states “it phone helps your subject to be at ease with you. Most of the people I meet are amazed and curious that I use such a small device to capture photos instead of a DSLR or a rangefinder”. 

https://digital-photography-school.com/10-of-the-best-iphone-photographers-by-photo-style-and-genre/ 

https://www.aikbengchia.com/2205327-thru-their-eyes#0 

American photojournalist James Nachtwey, who is also a war photographer uses the Eos 1V to Capture moving images of wars, conflicts, and social upheaval. He has received numerous honors such as the Common Wealth Award, Martin Luther King Award, Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Henry Luce Award, Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award (twice), 

http://jamesnachtwey.com/

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First Nations Accepting Applications for 10 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowships of $50,000 Each

First Nations Accepting Applications for 10 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowships of $50,000 Each

Published August 6, 2019

LONGMONT, Colo. — First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) and The Henry Luce Foundation (Luce) have partnered to launch the Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship. The fellowship is a 12-month, self-directed enrichment program designed to support the growth, development, knowledge and networks of Indigenous knowledge holders and knowledge makers.

First Nations…

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Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 2020/2021 (Up to $40,000)

Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 2020/2021 (Up to $40,000)

Deadline: October 23, 2019

Applications are open for the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art 2020/2021. The Fellowships are designated for graduate students at any stage of PhD dissertation research or writing. Ten fellowships are available for a non-renewable, one-year term beginning between June and September 2020 for the 2020-21 academic year.

The fellowships may be carried…

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Luce Foundation Announces Year-Long Conversation Series to Celebrate 40 Years of Support for American Art

Luce Foundation Announces Year-Long Conversation Series to Celebrate 40 Years of Support for American Art

The front of the New-York Historical Society from Central Park West. Photo: John Wallen The Henry Luce Foundation will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its seminal American Art Program with a year-long series of virtual conversations on American art and museums, to be hosted by the New-York Historical Society.   Since its founding in 1982, the Foundation’s American Art Program has made over…