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Profiles

Saleem Hue Penny

Kim Wright

Ashley Rogers

News

Countering Fear with Facts: Pulitzer Prize-Winning PolitiFact Founder Bill Adair Speaks on Campus

Helping Students Build Their Dreams: Integrated Advising for Applied Learning

Nourishing Relationships: Building Local Food Systems Together

Features: Power of Place

A Powerful Place: Modeling Conservation & Climate Action for a Changing World

Powerful Proximity: Warren Wilson College & Black Mountain College

A Place for Craft: The New Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies

Other

The 2022 Warren Wilson College Strategic Plan

The Farm School Library documentary film

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Profiles

Saleem Hue Penny

• Saleem’s Website
• Chicago Children’s Museum
• “Sunset, Before” (Poem nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017)

Organizations:

• Open Heart Magic
• Sweet Water Foundation
• Contextos
• Cave Canem

Kim Wright

• TedX talk
• Kim’s Website

Ashley Rogers

• Whitney Plantation
  Ashley Rogers curated a collection recording African Americans’ oral histories called “Grass, Scrap, Burn: Life and Labor at Whitney Plantation after Slavery.” The recordings are online here.

News coverage of the Whitney Plantation:

• CBS This Morning (video)
• “Why Americans Need a Slavery Museum” in The Atlantic (video)
• “New Museum Depicts ‘The Life Of A Slave From Cradle To The Tomb'” from NPR (audio & article)
• “Building the First Slavery Museum in America” from The New York Times Magazine

News

Countering Fear with Facts: Pulitzer Prize-Winning PolitiFact Founder Bill Adair Speaks on Campus

• “Facts, Community, and Bears,” full Commencement speech

Helping Students Build Their Dreams: Integrated Advising for Applied Learning

• Integrated Advising at Warren Wilson College

Nourishing Relationships: Building Local Food Systems Together

• Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)

Features

A Powerful Place: Modeling Conservation & Climate Action for a Changing World

• Conservation Exchange Instagram
• Signup for the Conservation Exchange Newsletter

Powerful Proximity: Warren Wilson College & Black Mountain College

• Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
• Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College (exhibition)
• Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College (digital portal)
• Purchase Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College (Exhibition Catalog, $25)
• Politics at Black Mountain College (exhibition)
• Politics at Black Mountain College (digital portal)
• “The Founding of the Farm at Black Mountain College” a multimedia presentation by David Silver (video) that explains the early relationship between Black Mountain College and the Asheville Farm School

A Place for Craft: The New Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies

• Warren Wilson College Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies
• Center for Craft, Asheville
• Western Regional Archives, Asheville

Milestones

The 2022 Warren Wilson College Strategic Plan

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