Angel Rodriguez ’89

Banking on Land

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As the first executive director of the Philadelphia Land Bank, Angel Rodriguez ’89 has a vision for creating a more equitable Philadelphia—one vacant lot at a time.

Read "Banking on Land" in the Spring 2018 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Rodriguez stands in one of the more than 100 tax-delinquent properties his agency has taken control of in recent months. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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Summer Centered: Summer DocuLab Fellows Zoom in on Zapotec Languages

Supported by VCAM and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, five students used filmmaking to aid Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen in her study of Zapotec language and culture in Oaxaca, Mexico.

DocuLab students Kathryn Goldberg BMC ’18 (left), Katie Rogers '18, and Eddie Ogborn ’19 interview project collaborator Moisés García Guzmán in Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo by Lucia Palmarini.

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Next Friday, September 7, 2018
A rhinestone encrusted crane in a colorful landscape
Friday, September 7, 2018
Exhibit

Hee Sook Kim: Invitation to Paradise

Artist’s Talk & Opening Reception

Friday, September 7, 2018
4:30—7:30 p.m.
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

In the exhibition Invitation to Paradise, Hee Sook Kim, with her eye for beauty, fills the canvas with motifs from Korean folk paintings and, thus, invites the viewers into a meditative healing space. Details » 

Paradise Between 8 (detail), 2016, oil, acrylic, rhinestones on canvas.

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