Amanda Sweeney is a Junior at the University of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, PA. She studies Political Science with minors in Environmental Studies and Survey Research & Data Analytics. The “High Rise Field Before Penn” art installation draws the attention of Penn students to the history of the land we live upon. The stories of Black […]
Anna Hochman is a sophomore Urban Studies major from San Francisco. For her art installation, she worked with cotton ribbon and biodegradable twine. The installation is located on one of the Woodlands’ oak trees in order to call attention to the extraordinary merging of nature and death in the West Philadelphia cemetery. There is no […]
“[Landscapes] are linked to multiple histories and rhythms that can help us escape from thinking of nature or history as singular” (5) Many urban college campuses are designed with interwoven green spaces, including lawns, planted trees, and gardens. At the University of Pennsylvania, the busiest area of campus is dotted with grandiose trees, both native […]
Nora Wang is from Nashville, Tennessee. She’s currently a rising junior studying anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The river flows from the Appalachian Mountains to the Delaware, curving and twisting like a blue ribbon. It inhales, sucking smaller streams toward it, bubbling and frothing when currents fuse. […]
Photographs and Text by Victoria, 1st Year MFA Candidate, The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania Pace and Emerging Worlds Each day on my way to the University of Pennsylvania, I cross the Walnut Street Bridge from the East side of Philadelphia towards the West. I began a Masters program here last […]
Jewan Goo is a 2nd year MFA candidate. He is from Seoul, South Korea. For his art-based engagement, the artist reconstructs Korean histories that have only existed in written form, spanning from the Japanese colonial period to the present day, by creating dioramas using photographic evidence. Dioramas, along with other visual mediums, were employed as […]
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