by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
After losing all of my work to a technical glitch yesterday, I felt a bit reluctant to write today. That is a silly reason not to write, to be sure, but I continue to amaze myself with the excuses I can develop not to sit still with an idea and try to explain what’s...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Well, folks, here’s the inevitable post where I explain how I wrote a really long post about the intersections between loss, nostalgia, and the printed book, but then… it accidentally got deleted, only to become unrecoverable to the sands of time. I just...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 26, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
Over lunch today, I got into a conversation with several of my colleagues here at the institute about teaching and improvisation. One person brought up the popular improv game, “yes, and…” where the actors involved never say “no” to any...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 25, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I remember making papier mache for the first time in elementary school and marveling at how ingredients like delicate paper could be turned into something as sturdy as a mask. The mask I created – a purple and yellow parrot’s face – took a...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Yesterday, I sat at the desk, hunched over a piece of wax thread, and a stack of papers. I was supposed to be making a coptic book, a medieval style of book where the papers are woven together to create an organically coiled binding. The process is strenuous,...
