[SNEC] Yousuf Karsh Donation Highlighted during Design Science Symposium

CJ Fearnley cjf at SynergeticsCollaborative.org
Tue Sep 20 09:58:46 EDT 2011


During the Third Biennial Design Science Symposium at RISD, there will
be a special presentation at 5 PM on 12 November 2011 highlighting
Mrs. Estrellita Karsh's donation to the RISD Museum in memory of her
late husband Yousuf Karsh, the famous portrait photographer.  The title
of the special presentation is

     "Yousuf Karsh & Buckminster Fuller; Twentieth Century Poets"
     Speakers: Estrelitta Karsh and Thomas T. K. Zung

Mrs. Estrellita Karsh has presented the RISD museum with an original
Bucky Fuller "Six Part Push Pull" sculpture that was given to Yousuf by
Bucky in 1980.

For more information about the RISD Museum exhibit "Building Blocks:
Contemporary Works from the Collection" on display through March 25, 2012
see their schedule which has a photo of a "Six Part Push Pull Tensegrity".
http://risdmuseum.org/uploadedFiles/Museum_of_Art/About/Press_Releases/RISD_Museum-new_exhibition_sc
hedule.pdf

For more information about the Third Biennial Design Science Symposium
at RISD from 11-13 November 2011, please visit the event home page at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/snec.announce.meeting.2011.11.html

The full schedule for the event is at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/schedule.nov.2011.pdf

To register to attend the event, please fill out a registration form at
http://synergeticscollaborative.org/symposium.registration.html

-- 
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth:
an instruction manual didn't come with it.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller

CJ Fearnley                         |  Executive Director
cjf at SynergeticsCollaborative.org    |  Synergetics Collaborative
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