Content tagged with Arts and Culture

Results are Tagged with "Arts and Culture"

Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981

American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing.

Brian Rutenberg - Fulbright Student to Ireland, 1997

Artist Brian Rutenberg brings us into his studio to discuss the evolution of his art, the Fulbright he received to Ireland, and what he is doing now.

Fulbright Travel-Only Grants

Grants for international travel are available to Germany, Hungary and Italy to supplement other fellowships that do not include travel costs or to supplement a student's own funds for study/research.

Photographing Bangladesh

Young men gather in a madrassa for the evening meal called Iftar to break their fast durning the month of Ramadan. Kala Chandpur, Dhaka

Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Geoffrey Hiller, taught Interactive Media in Bangladesh. Geoffrey's photos of his experience give a glimpse into what his time in Bangladesh was like.

Photographing the Sámi in Sweden

Erika Larsen, a Fulbright U.S. Student, who studied in Sweden shares her photos of the Sámi people.

Dance Diplomacy - DanceMotion USA

Through the DanceMotion USA program, the U.S. Department of State supports a series of tours by a select number of American contemporary dance companies to increase cross-cultural understanding between the United States and countries around the world.