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The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities provides a place for inclusive and interdisciplinary programming by promoting collaborative engagement with the intellectual and artistic ambitions of Haverford College and broader communities.

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Amelia Lamotte '25

Summer Centered: Amelia LaMotte ’25 Helps Connect Audiences to the Fringe

As a publications intern with support from the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Amelia LaMotte '25 spent her summer helping to prepare a guide to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Sonic Worlds

The Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities presents “Sonic Worlds,” a year of programming exploring diverse sound, musical, and listening practices as they figure in our everyday lives and in various fields of study, including anthropology, disability studies, music, literary studies, Indigenous studies, computer science, and more.

Summer Centered: Exploring American History, One Monument at a Time

During a summer internship at Philadelphia's Monument Lab, Maya Plimack '24 is doing curatorial research and aiding preparations for an outdoor exhibition on the National Mall in Washingtong, D.C.

Summer Centered: Ruth Mercedes ’24 Plumbs the Archives to Unearth the Stories of Enslaved Individuals

In a summer internship with the Witness Stones Project, Mercedes is compiling primary source documents related to slavery and helping to craft a vision for how the stories they tell can be brought into the classroom.

Summer Centered: Finding Inspiration and Power in Public Art

Curtis Kline '24 is spending his summer working with an organization in New York focused on public artists.

Summer Centered: Lyali Pereda Figueroa ’26 Finds Her Rhythm In Reggaetón’s History

At the Hasta ’Bajo Project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Figueroa is spending the summer researching the history and culture of the popular dance music genre.

Meet our interns🌸: Hi, I’m Alice, and this su

Meet our interns🌸: Hi, I’m Alice, and this summer I’m working for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. I write communications pieces about HSP’s new collection acquisitions. I get to research these collections, write about them, and sometimes interview the collection’s donor. So far, I’ve gotten to interview Cindy Little, a founder of women’s history month. Here are a few cool things I’ve found in the collections (and me and Cindy).

Photos courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (slide 2,4,5)

Meet our summer interns⛹️‍♂️Hi all, I’

Meet our summer interns⛹️‍♂️Hi all, I’m Jalen, and for my HCAH summer internship, I’m continuing my work with Knicks Fan TV, a YouTube channel/media site that covers and analyzes New York Knicks players, games, news, and rumors intently. I began writing for the page last summer, and now also edit articles and create newsletters. Here’s what that looks like in my remote day-to-day:

1. My author archive page on http://knicksfantv.com (with more in queue)
2. What the backend of the website looks like for a very rough draft rewrite
3. What the backend of Mailchimp looks like for newsletters
4. An example of player research on BBall Index for a future article
5. A book I’m reading
6. A very recent expansion by our team into covering the general NBA. If you like basketball, check out the channel! http://youtube.com/@TheNBAReport/featured

We're happy to see recent Hurford Center Tuttle Cr

We're happy to see recent Hurford Center Tuttle Creative Resident Rebecca Fisher '18 win Haverford's Young Alumni Award! Congrats Rebecca!

From Haverford's website: Rebecca Fisher is a co-founder and tour guide at Beyond the Bell tours in Philadelphia with another Haverford alum, Joey Leroux '18. Their cornerstone tours are the Badass Women's History Tour and the LGBTQ History /Gayborhood Tour. She majored in Italian with a concentration in Peace, Justice ,and Human Rights, graduating in 2018. Rebecca wrote her thesis about inclusive tourism and has presented her research internationally. She's passionate about the intersection of tourism and social justice. As an alum, and a Tuttle creative resident, Rebecca led the new “People’s History” tour of campus and co-designed a complementary Library exhibit with librarians called “In Perpetuity.” Both cover topics such as Quaker’s historical relations with the Lenape people, boycotts held by the Black Students League in the 1970s, and how BIPOC community members have contributed to Haverford. Rebecca resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Meet our interns!🐳: Hi! My name is kira (she/he

Meet our interns!🐳: Hi! My name is kira (she/her) and I am interning with Asian Arts Initiative this summer in their Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) program. I’ve been helping out at community events and planning art projects for their youth summer camp, including my own workshop about collective healing. Outside of my internship, I’ve also been doing a lot of art, including crocheting, playing my guitar, and learning how to play the harmonica!

Meet our summer interns🐣: Hi I’m Lily! I’m

Meet our summer interns🐣: Hi I’m Lily! I’m working with Voice of Witness this summer, a social justice/oral history organization. As a Comparative Literature major with a concentration in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, VOW’s work is exactly the kind of work that I am interested in! I really believe in the power of stories, so it has been really inspiring working with my amazing colleagues and learning about how the organization works as a community and with other communities to share important stories and testimonies that often go unheard. I’m working remotely so there’s not much to show, but here are some photos of me, my computer, and my little desk area in my apartment at HCA!

🎧MEET our summer interns: Hi, my name is Theo

🎧MEET our summer interns:
Hi, my name is Theo Schefer and I’m working remotely for the Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan Centers in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Over the past two weeks, I brainstormed ideas for mini pop-up exhibitions highlighting the social consciousness of these performers, watched documentaries, and listened to lots of music!

Alongside Guthrie and Dylan, I recommend the amazing music of Phil Ochs! His soft melodies and biting political satire are unforgettable. Peace!

🌞MEET our summer fellows: Hello there! I’m Mi

🌞MEET our summer fellows: Hello there! I’m Mimi 👋🏽 Through the Hurford Center’s Self Designed Internship, I’m working for @Fishadelphia, a seafood subscription program that connects local fresh seafood with Philadelphia’s diverse communities! This summer, I’m designing visual content for them—from recipe cards to a zine on the organization’s inclusion strategies. I’m working remotely from home in Alabama which means rotating coffee shops for work, lots of pickleball, and eating seafood for inspiration! 🦐

Hello from (part of) team Hurford Center coming to

Hello from (part of) team Hurford Center coming to you LIVE from this year’s Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) meeting in Santiago, Chile!

Events

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023

12:00PM

VCAMbient with Umika Pathak '25

Wednesday, October 25th, 2023

6:00PM

Flaherty Screening

6:00PM

Flaherty Screening

7:30PM

Flaherty Screening

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