Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Duncan's background has made him intimately aware of what is at stake for America's students. As he puts it, if you made it through school in the gang-ridden South Side, you had a chance of making it out. And if you didn't, you might have ended up dead. "The dividing line between those two was clearly educational opportunity," he says. Sure, all kids are guaranteed seats in a classroom, but too many are taught by middling teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken...
...Connor’s background doesn’t bring to mind that of a master criminal. He was born and raised in Milton, an affluent Boston suburb, and is a personable, articulate, and intelligent man. “Are you aware of my SAT scores?” he jokes. “They’re very high.” Given a second chance, he claims he would have chosen a different career path. “I imagine that I would have been a good doctor,” he says. “I would...
...work centers around the social and political themes of her childhood. Her paintings, done in a photographic style, depict American people and iconography. They are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.THC: How has your Detroit background influenced you?Michele Zalopany: Growing up there, I experienced the racial riots. My dad was a union worker with United Auto Workers. He was an idealist, he was probably a child laborer, and that’s why he chose the work that he did. Also, he was Hawaiian and grew...
...with Bradley Benedetti to create Meme, which opened its first show in June; Benedetti was an owner of the space in its previous incarnation as Gallery 55.The five artists—Phelan, Dirk Adams, Alice Vogler, Sandrine Schaefer, and Phil Fryer—who all have a background in the Boston performance art scene, felt unsatisfied with the space and conditions they had to exhibit their work. However, these Boston-based groups were limited by their marginal status and brief performances, often displayed in illegal locations. “We all three [of Mobius] felt at the same...
Paulus, who has spearheaded this endeavor to blur the divide between the audience and the actors, is leading the A.R.T. with considerable expertise from her directorial background in theater and opera. Just this past year, she successfully revived an on-Broadway production of “Hair...