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Flannery O’Connor is best known as a master of Southern Gothic storytelling, but before writing classics like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Wise Blood, she wanted to be an artist. “Her career goals were to become a cartoonist for the likes of the New Yorker,” said Amanda Respess, director of news and media relations at Georgia College & State University. 

In 1988, artist Lynn Hershman Leeson told an interviewer to “imagine a world in which there is a blurring between the soul and the chip.” When it comes to humans and technology, I always thought the blurring would be physical. Humans would reproduce with robots, or we’d get chips implanted into our brains. After eighteen pandemic months in which I’ve spent so much time on the internet that I can’t tell the difference between my own inner monologue and that of the people I follow on Twitter, I realized there’s no robot sex necessary. The Internet has insidiously taken over our visual and verbal language.

When you work in social services, using the right language is essential.

For non-profits and social service organizations working in the career training and workforce development space, offering apprenticeship programs is a great way to ensure that entry level workers and career changers alike can overcome the pressing challenges of today’s economy.

It has been an eventful couple of years for the art and legacy of Philip Guston (1913-1980).

How to best serve the needs of youth aging out of foster care?

What do a former factory in Venice, Italy, a shopping mall in Rhode Island, and a deconsecrated church in Bedford, England have in common? They were all in danger of demolition, and instead have a new lease on life, thanks to adaptive reuse.

Friday, March 13, 2020 was the day the music stopped for violinist Cody Geil, who toured with a variety of classical and pop acts prior to the pandemic. “I saw my whole schedule for the year just clear up, evaporate,” she says.