Posts by Katherine Smith

January 9 We were fortunate to host the archivists from Portman Archives--Paige Adair, Rebecca Brown, and Katie Twomey--for a tour of our exhibition-under-construction. What a dream team! They have been so generous in their guidance and assistance throughout our development…

December 19 Agnes Scott College got a nice acknowledgment of our work, which was featured in the Annual Impact Report from Re:wild Your Campus. Two of us have completed their Advocacy Bootcamp (the next one is in January - highly…

December 16 This evening we presented the current work to our campus and contributors. Lydia Holland previewed her film on Dana, we shared the maquette of the building and the photographic project of North/South McDonough, finishing with the timelines of…

December 6 It is the last week of the semester. We are in the final throes of finishing all sorts of work and mocking up the exhibition on Monday evening with the 3D Thinking and Topics courses. Our students are…

November 17, 2024We were invited to the annual volunteer brunch with BeeCatur at Woodland Gardens. Thank you, Peter! We have been working on collaborative programming, pending funding, that has the potential for great impact on our campus and community.What a…

November 11, 2024   We had a great work/think day today, assessing the work we have already completed and confirming the work we still have to do to develop material for the exhibition. This project continues to be one of…

October 22-25, Atlanta (l-r) August Fisk ’25, Nell Ruby, Tallulah Stroud ’26, Katherine Smith (l-r) Nell Ruby, Katherine Smith, Becky Bivens ’07 Building on Dana was part of the annual meeting of the Southeastern Art Conference in multiple ways. It…

October 18 At 7 am the Building on Dana folks took to the streets for a photographic project inspired by Los-Angeles based artist Ed Ruscha. In 1966, Ruscha photographed a 2-mile stretch of the Sunset Strip and used the photographs,…

October 11 In just two weeks, Building on Dana will be part of the annual conference for the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Atlanta (October 23-25). It will be part of our presentation, "Is Visual Practices the Future of…

October 10 Several of us (co-curators and collaborators) attended a webinar with Aaron Anderson of The Xerces Society, which certifies BeeCities and BeeCampuses, introducing their IPM toolkit to support their communities: the process of certification involves drafting and revising integrated…

Building on Dana is pleased to support the theme of our annual conference, inclusive health equity. Using the strategies from John Portman, who designed the Dana Fine Arts Building (1965) and believed his architecture to be dynamic and responsive to…

September 30-October 7 Students are working on the campus context for the Dana Fine Arts Building, looking at how it was represented by students in The Profile (newspaper) and The Silhouette (yearbook) between 1959 and 1971. We are also tracking…

October 7 Scott Anglin, EPA/AHERA/ASHARA Licensed Asbestos Inspector & Designer, George Pineda, MPH, CIH, CHMM National Environmental Solutions, Inc. Scott Anglin discussed the history of asbestos and considerations for responsible removal - and opportunities in responsible preservation. George Pineda covered…

October 5 Co-curators and students in the Building on Dana project hosted visiting scholars for our first public tour. As part the annual conference for SESAH (Marietta, GA, October 3-5), they spent time with us in Dalton Gallery and the…