Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“The Summer Bridge program has setting an example to students and administrators on the need to see our impact as scholars and as a university beyond academic journals and institutional recognitions.” - Nathalie Martinez ☞Read more Go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeNathalie 011
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“It has strengthened the same empathy, flexibility and commitment to reciprocity that has already shaped my community-engaged work in Ghana, and now, through Root Causes.” -Janet Husunukpe, College of FAA Ph.D. student. ☞Read more about her experience: go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeJanet 011
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 16/07/2026“The fellowship highlighted the value of building those relationships and demonstrated how humanities research can have an impact well beyond the university.” - Erica Kolson ☞Read more about her experience: go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeErica 031
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“I have gained a deeper appreciation for the power of the humanities to create positive social change and to ensure that academic knowledge serves the broader public in meaningful and lasting ways.” ☞Read more about his experience: go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeFredrick 021
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“I have found that not only was I able to learn and grow, but that our community partners are so appreciative to have people that they trust to work hard, believe in their mission, and contribute to their organization.” - Madeline Belland ☞Read more: go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeBelland 021
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 07/07/2026“This experience is far more than an academic fellowship; it has been a masterclass on how the public humanities can actively dismantle systemic barriers and foster deep regional and global solidarity.” - Johnson Adegbola ☞Read more about his experience: go.illinois.edu/SummerBridgeAdegbola 031
Reposted by Emily ClarkHumanities Research Institute at Illinois @hriatillinois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🎉 We’re proud to introduce the six participants in the 2026 Summer Bridge Program! This program connects humanities graduate students with local community partners to address community needs while developing professional skills and experience. Read More➡️go.illinois.edu/Bridge26 021
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Wrote a little something about a great conversation I had with Asif Wilson about the incredible work he, Rachel McMillian, and Aja Reynolds have been doing, rooted in deep relationships and methods of reciprocity and redistribution, supported by HWW’s Grand Research Challengehumanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.eduCentering Education in Collaboration and Community | Humanities Without Walls (HWW) - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 010
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The rush I get after saying “thanks I made it!” when I wear something I knitted and someone compliments it is absolutely unmatched 000
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Nadine Naber and asking her a few questions about her Humanities Without Walls research project. It was so encouraging to hear about her work—I wish I could have shared our whole conversation, but these are the highlights!humanitieswithoutwalls.illinois.eduReciprocity & Redistribution in Social Movement-Led Research | Humanities Without Walls (HWW) - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 011
Reposted by Emily ClarkSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Der IGEL! Lothar Meggendorfer really knew how to evoke lifelike movement! This book from the Olin Library special collections at Wash U is only one spectacular example! #movablebooksociety #Hedgehog #paperengineering 57520
Reposted by Emily ClarkDr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Life of a Showgirl! The dance of Salome with swords, from a 12th-century copy of St Anselm’s meditations, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Auct. D. 2. 6, f. 166v 🧡⚔️ 1304
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Watching the new season of The Bear and I’m so obsessed with this Nighthawks shot 010
Reposted by Emily ClarkRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...ipm.orgIndiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degreesPublic Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education. 18520891296
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 09/06/2025My Tony opinions are based only on the short clips that have made it to insta/tik tok but I’m so thrilled to see big wins for Maybe Happy Ending (and maybe one day I’ll see it person) 000
Reposted by Emily ClarkRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 29/05/2025A Hedgehog in a Landscape, Giovanna Garzoni Piceno, 1643-51. 118036
Reposted by Emily ClarkGuilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025alien dj + dancing capybaras prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil... 014645
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I’ve watched this movie 6 times in one day tbhmedia.tenor.coma group of people are dancing in a room with the words viva la vie bohemeAlt: Gif from La Vie Boheme in Rent. A group of people are dancing in a room with the words viva la vie boheme 020
Reposted by Emily ClarkMartha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together! 29194154911
Reposted by Emily ClarkLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 05/02/2025wonderful thread. 1207
Reposted by Emily ClarkCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/01/2025OUR MISSING HEARTS is not a dystopia, example #976. (When I wrote it, I worried that making up a law called "Protecting American Culture and Traditions" would be unbelievable. I don't worry that anymore.) 721324
Reposted by Emily ClarkJason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/01/2025The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire 1140463237920
Reposted by Emily ClarkMoudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are. It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression) 231166293
Reposted by Emily ClarkTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.” 104107852621
Reposted by Emily ClarkCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Wish more people realised that for most art businesses, there's only one person doing all the work. Creating, shipping, admin, promotion, starting feuds with other artists, painting unflattering portraits of them into historical scenes, trying to poison them, it's all one person. 194155541874
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Maybe it’s because I grew up in the south but I think everything should be cancelled when it snows (mostly because I become incapable of doing anything but sitting by a window and watching it fall) (also because I can’t drive in it) 120
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I’m glad to be done with grad school for so many reasons but having creative energy again has to be at the top of the list 000
Reposted by Emily Clarkjoey ˙✦ @joeyis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024what do you MEAN i have to make bad art to make good art. what do you MEANNN i have to practice a skill to improve it???? 12675001290
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I was on a run and some man stopped me to say he liked my Elon University shirt and at first he was so excited to learn it’s a real place—until he found out it’s a small liberal arts school and not a “university celebrating Elon Musk” like he was hoping 120
Reposted by Emily Clarkemma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tagsweb.archive.orgEmbroidery Trouble Shooting Page Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems 34780563473
Reposted by Emily ClarkMurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2024(I mean, I’ll be paranoid after that, too, but only about the usual things.) 0395
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 15/09/2024I’ve been reading the Murderbot series by Martha Wells and omg 10/10 writing (imagine if Holst’s The Planets were books) and 12/10 in relatability—on both personal and general stage of the world in an age of disinformation and late stage capitalism levels 120
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 03/10/2023Reminiscing on one of my most favorite days from this summer—my first time visiting the Art Institute of Chicago! 030
Emily Clark @emclark00.bsky.social · 10/09/2023this disco ball from five below is easily the best thing i own 040
