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Rising from the Ashes
Continue ReadingStories of Sorrow, Redemption and Rebirth: Innovation Summer 2020 In 2020, The Glass Files participated in the first 100% remote MetaBronx Innovation Summer, which welcomed 100 student apprentices from 3 Bronx high schools. MetaBronx gathered 10 mentors including entrepreneurs from current and former startup cohorts as well as college students from partner Olin College of […]
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Apprentices: International Edition
Continue ReadingThe living history of American immigration in The Bronx Since the days of Jonas Bronck, the first Swedish settler to make his home on native Lenape land in 1639, the area known today as The Bronx has welcomed waves of migration from Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the American South. The timeless […]
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Apprentices: Next Generation
Continue ReadingIn The Bronx, startups partner with high schools to create a new apprenticeship model for education This summer, 40 students from Bronx Academy for Software Engineering (BASE) were accepted to work at MetaBronx to develop our skills as future entrepreneurs and business owners. MetaBronx is a startup accelerator and entrepreneurship education program that helps startup […]
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Rising Apprentices
Continue ReadingSummer of Success: meet the Summer 2017 cohort at The Glass Files! This Summer marked the 2nd in a row that our Bronx-based tech startup The Glass Files partnered with tech programs around New York City to work with high school students on unlocking their full potential as digital apprentices. Summer 2017 was all about summer […]
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Lieutenant Colonel Lee Andrew Archer
Continue ReadingBack in the early 1940s when the U.S. Army did not accept black pilots, my grandfather, Lee Andrew Archer, was accepted into an experimental training program for black aviators at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. There, he graduated first in his class and during World War II he became the first and only […]
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Give thanks to the woman who brought us Thanksgiving
Continue ReadingThe First Thanksgiving is said to have taken place in 1621. The painting below is in the public domain and one of the first and only results our search came up with that shows the scene of intercultural exchange that legend says inspired the celebration. Painted 300 years after the first pilgrims arrived in this […]
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The Ink Lady
Continue ReadingI originally started this drawing three years ago as a work sample for my middle school art students. I soon realized the scale and details were far too time consuming for an assignment. I put the portrait aside assuming I’d get to it eventually. Two years went by and I rediscovered it in a neglected […]
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A small peek at Casablanca and Jemaa-el-Fnaa, Morocco
Continue ReadingRummaging through some photos in our photo chest, I found these two photos from my mother’s childhood and adolescence in Morocco, which is also where my parents met while in high school. Morocco was a French protectorate from 1912 to 1956. Many French nationals settled in Morocco while the French government exploited Morocco’s fertile lands […]
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Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Continue ReadingThe Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca is a fortress located just outside of the city of Santiago de Cuba. It was designed by the Italian, Giovanni Battista Antonelli, to serve as protection against pirates under Cuba’s Spanish rule. Its construction lasted 62 years, from 1638 to 1700. It underwent many attacks, including ones […]
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Citadelle Laferrière, Milot, Haiti
Continue ReadingThe Citadelle Laferrière is the largest fortress in the Caribbean, and is in close proximity to the Sans-Souci Palace, near Cap-Haïtien. Built in 1804, following Haiti‘s independence from France, ex-slave and future President and later self-proclaimed King, Henri Christophe led the construction of the fortress on the northern side of the island to protect its […]
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Atelier Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, France
Continue ReadingPaul Cézanne (1839-1906) was considered as one of the great masters of Post-Impressionism (an art movement of the second half of the nineteenth century, in which a break from Impressionism was made, with a shift in the use of color, geometry, and technique). Cézanne is also widely regarded as the forefather of Cubism. Cézanne, a […]
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Welcome!
Continue ReadingWelcome to The Glass Files blog! Come to the blog to read about our latest adventures, find guidelines on how to use TGF, keep up to date with announcements, and learn about upcoming events. To learn more about TGF, go straight to the source: theglassfiles.com! Read about the inspiration behind the project in our About […]
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