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 7, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
It’s my last Saturday here in SLC, and it’s starting to hit me how fast the last week here is going to feel! I took another day off here, especially since my husband is in town visiting, and wound up making a very full day out of a long hike up in the...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
After losing all of my work to a technical glitch yesterday, I felt a bit reluctant to write today. That is a silly reason not to write, to be sure, but I continue to amaze myself with the excuses I can develop not to sit still with an idea and try to explain what’s...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 29, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
As a student, I often dreaded group projects. The idea of giving up my own individual control over something that I turned into my instructor made me uncomfortable because I didn’t necessarily have faith that everyone would do the project the way that I would...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 22, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today’s experiences at the institute made me think about my apartment. In my living room, one whole wall of my apartment is full of bookshelves. They are obscenely large – purchased from a closing Borders bookstore in 2011 – and they fill the room...
