Paul Ramírez Jonas
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Sacramento International Airport Commissions Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas to Create Permanent Public Installation
Using 1,252 perforated metal panels each measuring 3'x11', Paul Ramírez Jonas, Chair and Professor of Art in Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, has unveiled his plans for a large-scale installation which will cover three sides of Sacramento International Airport's new six-story parking garage.
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In Grim Times, Art Finds a Way
Department of Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's 2017 conceptual interactive performance piece, Alternative Facts, was featured in this article about how art helps the American public process electoral politics.
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Art Department Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas’s Let Freedom Ring to Philadelphia in 2026
The Association for Public Art has received $360,000 in grant support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to bring the work to the city as part of their semi-quincentennial celebration.
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Artists for Understanding Brings Together Artists and Cultural Luminaries
Art chair Paul Ramírez Jonas has been named spokesperson of Artists for Understanding, an initiative led by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that promotes arts and humanities as crucial in bridging divides and countering all forms of hate.
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Glenn Ligon: Material to be Played With
In a wide-ranging discussion that covered career building, race, politics, and how emerging artists are approaching the art world, Art Professor and Department Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas spoke with Glenn Ligon in advance of Ligon's talk at AAP on March 5.
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The B.F.A. Program at Cornell University
Artists are specialists of the imagination, and we're looking for that radical spark in our applicants. Through exploration and research, students build skills and relationships, make connections, and unearth what drives their art making so that they can be the artist they want to be in the world. Applications are due by January 2, 2024.
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Art on the Mall: American Diversity on Display
Highlights from Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, the first-ever curated exhibition on the National Mall, which presents works from a diverse range of artists including Art Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas (at 3:50).
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National Mall Installation Invites Public to “Let Freedom Ring”
Featured in the Cornell Chronicle, the exhibition includes an interactive bell tower by Art Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas, one of six featured projects which aim to create a more inclusive commemorative landscape on the mall.
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On Our National Mall, New Monuments Tell New Stories
A review of Pulling Together, an exhibition on the National Mall that features "prototype monuments" by six artists, including Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's Let Freedom Ring.
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Move Over, Monuments: The Mall Gets First Curated Multi-Artist Exhibit
Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's contribution Let Freedom Ring is an automated carillon that plays 41 notes of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" but leaves the 42nd note to a 600-pound bell that can be struck by visitors.
