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Marseille? Psych! Mallorca is Close Enough!

One thing that travel teaches you is flexibility, especially when dealing with budget airlines like RyanAir. I have been learning French since sixth grade; it fostered my love of learning languages. Communicating with French people in their native language is something that I find very rewarding, and so I was very excited to jet off to Marseille for the weekend with my roommate. I had been brainstorming all week of fun things to do in the area, soaking up the sunshine and sand of the south of France. 

Where to Shop in Dublin

            Hello, friend, it’s good to have you back. Today, I’ll write about a few shops around Dublin where you can find good items, going from clothing to food. Because my budget is limited, my blog will be focused around affordable businesses.

Day Trips from Dublin

            After being in Ireland for a month, I’ve spent much time in cities close to Dublin for day trips, less than a two hour bus ride or a DART away. For those who don’t want to go out for a full weekend or can’t afford to do so, these are five towns I’ve been to, and where I’ve spent less than 15 euros at each location.

 

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Beginning Life at Oxford

Last week, I officially moved into St. Catherine’s College here in Oxford. As I mentioned in my last post, it was difficult to leave London after so many wonderful memories. Arriving at Oxford, there was a definite shift in pace, and we knew we were here to learn.

Wanda Bubriski

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Wanda Bubriski
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Founding Executive Director of Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation

Wanda Bubriski (IES Abroad Vienna 1978-79) remains grateful to Bowdoin College for letting her spend junior year (in Vienna, the experience was transformative~ the architecture and art teachers Huber, DeCleva and Benesch, who taught her the value of experiential education.

As a Fulbright scholar in 1982-83, while researching the Social Housing Programs of Red Vienna, Wanda interned in the prints and drawings department of the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien; in collaboration with Hans Bisanz, her work resulted in the 1985 exhibition and catalogue, Franz Cizek, Pionier der Kunsterziehnung (1865-1946), the pioneering children’s art educator. She earned her BA Magna cum Laude in Art History from Bowdoin College and then an MA in the History of Art and Architecture form Yale University. 

For the past 20 years Wanda has shifted her interests to public education, and to political and environmental activism. As the founding Executive Director of the New York-based Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, she was instrumental in shaping the now 20-year-old national nonprofit’s mission, goals, and programs- such as Built by Women, recognizing the work of women shaping the built environment. 

Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller

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Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller
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Professor of History at the City University of New York Kingsborough

Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller, IES Abroad Vienna ‘02, is Professor of History at the City University of New York  Kingsborough and also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on art and design in Secessionist and interwar Vienna, including children’s art and artistic toys of the Vienna Secession; expressionist ceramics of the Wiener Werkstätte; folk art and modernism; and women’s art education. She is the editor of Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-present (Bloomsbury 2018) and the author of The Female Secession: Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy (Penn State University Press, 2020) and co-editor (with Laura Morowitz) of Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2022). Brandow-Faller contributed two catalogue essays for the retrospective exhibition Die Frauen der Wiener Werkstätte at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (2021). Her newest project focuses on the dissemination and popularization of Secessionist ideas of child creativity in postwar America.

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Lost and Found

This story begins two years ago on a crisp October afternoon when, while wading through leaves in the backyard of my childhood home, I opened to the first page of Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund. At the time, the magnitude of this simple gesture eluded my understanding, but I would soon glimpse the influence and serendipity that accompanies a piece of inspiration so exact to one’s situation that it feels like fate.

More Must Visit Places in Italy

Hi everyone! 

I hope you are all safe, happy, and healthy.

If you read my last blog, you’ll probably be a little confused as to why I’m posting about two more places that I love in Italy. Well, Italy is just filled with amazing sights and adventures that I just couldn’t condense it all into one post. So, I am going to tell you my other top two places to see in Italy. I could tell you about a lot more but I tried really hard to just pick two more places.

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