Oregon Humanities

What We're Reading Over Break

The Oregon Humanities office is closed until Tuesday, January 3, 2012, and the staff hopes to get some reading done during this break. Here’s what’s on our winter reading list; what’s on yours?

Kamla: Blue Nights by Joan Didion, Design*Sponge at Home, Then Again by Diane Keaton

Alicia: Cool, Calm and Contentious by Merrill Markoe, The Women by T.C. Boyle, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace,
Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James

Cara: In the Garden of... Read more

26 December 2011 | Permalink | Comments? (0 so far)

Watch the Wheel of Cogitation Work Its Magic

Here’s a short film of the Wheel of Cogitation at the Mississippi Street Fair, produced by John Cardenas. Thanks again to Jelly Helm, Chris Rhodes, and Lloyd Winter for shaping our idea for a conversation wheel into a real, live, beautiful work of art. We’re taking the wheel to the Business for Culture and the Arts Breakfast of Champions in mid-November, but sign up for our e-newsletter (at left) to find out about its future public appearances.

07 November 2010 | Permalink | Comments? (0 so far)

Oregonian newspaper feature tells story of Oregon Humanities' new branding campaign

You’ve heard about the name change. You’ve seen the website and the first short film. Now, read the Oregonian newspaper article that tells the story of how Jelly Helm helped transform the Oregon Council for the Humanities to Oregon Humanities.

27 September 2009 | Permalink | Comments? (1 so far)