by Jenae Cohn | Jul 13, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Four weeks of discussion, creation, and camaraderie have temporally ended, but the work that is yet to be done has just begun. Last night, my fellow institute colleagues and I celebrated our projects with a display at the Salt Lake City Public Library, where our...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 12, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today is the day that our exhibits go up at the Salt Lake City Public Library, an exciting moment for our group to showcase the products of our work to a larger audience. I’m glad that there is a forum to share some of what we’ve been thinking about and to...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 11, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I have to admit that I almost shed tears at the thought of sewing pages together today. It’s the last full day for us here to complete the projects that we’ll be exhibiting at the Salt Lake City Public Library and I had only a few steps left for the project I had...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 11, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Fold the paper in half. Fold the paper along the diagonal. Do it twice. Square the four corners. Turn the paper inside out. Tuck in the flaps. Repeat. I followed these steps, repetition upon repetition, until I reached a point where I finally felt satisfied with what...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 9, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I have to confess that this post is a little bit of a “cheat” for today because I’m sharing a document that is going to be a part of the final exhibit for the book projects as part of this NEH Institute. See, all of the institute participants have to...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 8, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
This last weekend here in SLC has involved a lot of hiking and outdoors time. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Since the day I arrived here and saw the mountain ranges immediately on the horizon, seemingly within close reach of the city’s freeways,...
