Languages

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  • English: native
  • French: basic reading and writing
  • German: academic reading and writing
  • Latin: academic reading and writing

Expertise

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Modern and contemporary Western art, contemporary Japanese art, painting, installation.

Artists

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Laura Owens
Takashi Murakami
Chinatsu Ban
Sachiko Miki
Jeff Koons
Jessica Stockholder
Lily van der Stokker
Jorge Pardo
Paul Gauguin
Henri Matisse

Architecture and Design

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Ancient, modern, and postmodern.

Architects and Schools

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Bauhaus
Prairie School
Knoll
Frank Lloyd Wright
Harry Bertoia
Mies van der Rohe
Louis Kahn
Tadao Ando
Frank Gehry
Zaha Hadid

History

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American cultural history, 19th to 21st centuries; Classical and Roman world.

Misc. Culture

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English-language literature, English grammar and vocabulary, US popular culture, Grateful Dead, Texas.

Education

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Higher education, distance learning, instructional design, outcomes and assessment, accessibility and universal design, sustainability in the curriculum.

About

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 This user is a resident native citizen interested in the U.S. State of Texas.
 This user is a former resident interested in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
 Guns Up! This user is a current student or alumnus of
Texas Tech University.
 This user is interested in
art history.
 This user is interested in architecture.
 This user is interested in painting.
en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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This user supports the use of the
Oxford comma.
;This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly.
y'allThis user thinks y'all serves a useful purpose as a second-person plural pronoun, and would like to see y'all use it more often.
try and
try to
This user tries to discourage usage of "try and".
to¦goThis user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
…in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
based Based on experience, this user knows that based off is nearly always incorrect.
 This user cares about animals
 This user likes both cats and dogs 
 This user is owned by one or more cats.
 This user likes Snow Leopards.