![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but the drama that certainly did accompany this maritime feat is hardly there at all. One can admire the man's restraint in not overdramatizing the more perilous episodes of the voyage - capsizing off Australia, rounding the Horn, etc. "British understatement" is an understatement. (I still tear up thinking about it.) I am not especially Anglophilic, but the man and the moment epitomized for this American all that is great and good about England and her people, even if the British Empire ain't what it used to be (which is very likely a good thing).Īlas, almost four decades later, I didn't find Chichester's memoir of the voyage an especially engaging read. I recall the thrill and deep emotion that came over me in 1967 when I saw TV coverage of England welcoming home Francis Chichester (soon to be "Sir Francis") from his "singlehander" circumnavigation of the planet. ![]()
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In 2009, she was the Roberts endowed lecturer in Jewish Art at Fairfield University. ![]() Her works have been exhibited internationally at such prominent venues as The Israeli Center for Digital Art- Holon, The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, The Jewish Museum New York (where her work is in the permanent collection), Beit Hatfutsot Tel Aviv, Concordia University Montreal, as well as Nuit Blanche in Toronto. Her expertise at building and designing large-scale multi-media installations in collaboration with others enables her to direct the Mapping Ararat team as well as to conceptualize and direct this multi-faceted project. Her highly acclaimed video sculpture ARK was the keynote project for the Jewish Museum in Prague’s centennial year celebration in 2006. Shiff is a video, performance, and installation artist whose work engages Jewish cultural memory, repurposing museum collections, animating the archive, as well as exploring the relationship between religious ritual and performance art. Melissa Shiff is a Research Associate at Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology at York University. ![]() |