April 12, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmEarly special effects Leslie DeLassus is a film historian and instructor with a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa. While working on her Ph.D, DeLassus came to the Ransom Center to research early film special effects innovator, Norman O. Dawn, and his groundbreaking work.
February 28, 2019, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1What can a woman do? Women in the Arts and Crafts movement Wendy Kaplan, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, lectures on women in the Arts and Crafts movement. The event, What can a woman do? Women in the Arts and Crafts Movement, takes place Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m.
February 27, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation Commemorate World Poetry Day with a reading and conversation between two award-winning contemporary poets whose lives and writings have been impacted by war.