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Posen (surname)
Posen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Al Posen, American cartoonist * Adam Posen (born 1966), American economist * Ariel Posen, Canadian musician * Barry Posen (born 1952), professor of political science at MIT * Louis Posen (born 1971), American music producer *Mika Posen, Canadian violinist and music instructor * Shelley Posen (active since 1970s), Canadian folklorist and folk musician * Stephen Posen (born 1939), American painter, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 * Zac Posen (born 1980), American fashion designer See also * Posener Posener is a surname of German origin, a demonym for a person from the Polish city Poznań (German: ''Posen''). Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Posener (born 1949), British-German journalist * Edith Head born Edith Claire Posener (1 ... * Posner {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Posen
Alvah Posen (October 2, 1894 - June 10, 1960) was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his 1933-1960 comic strip ''Sweeney & Son'' and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, ''Humor Risk'' (1921). Early life Born in New York City, Posen served in the Army during World War I and worked for a film advertising agency when the war ended. He then travelled in the Orient as a member of a geological and mining expedition, spending a year in Siam and Yunan. Comic strips In 1922, with no formal training in art, Posen created the rhyming daily comic strip, ''Them Days Are Gone Forever'' (aka ''Them Days Is Gone Forever''). Distributed by United Features Syndicate, it was published in 1000 newspapers within a year, and continued until April 4, 1925. On April 19, 1926, Posen began another daily strip called ''Jinglet'', which used several rhymed words in a four-panel gag. (For example: "Pals / Gals / Luck / Stuck".) This ran until March 19, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Posen
Adam Simon Posen (born 1966) is an American economist and President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He became President of the Peterson Institute on January 1, 2013, having first joined PIIE in July 1997. Life and career Posen was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is Jewish. He received a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, after graduating from Harvard College in 1988. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies, G-20 economic relations, the resolution of financial crises, and central banking issues. He has been a consultant to the IMF and to several US government agencies, as well as to the British and Japanese Cabinet Offices, and a visiting scholar at central banks in Europe and East Asia, and in the US Federal Reserve System. From 1994 to 1997, he was an economist in international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Posen
The Bros. Landreth are a Canadian alternative country and folk music group. Their debut album ''Let It Lie'' won the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group at the Juno Awards of 2015.Ben Rayner, "A long road to band of brothers: Joey and David Landreth frustrated themselves with side gigs before joining forces". ''Toronto Star'', April 2, 2015. The group was first formed in 2013 by brothers Joey and David Landreth, the sons of Winnipeg musician Wally Landreth."Musical brothers stick to family business". ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', January 16, 2014. The brothers share vocal duties, while Joey plays guitar and David plays bass. The initial band lineup also included Alex Campbell on piano and Ryan Voth on drums. The band has also toured with musicians Ariel Posen on second guitar, Cody Iwasiuk, Curtis Nowosad and Michael Carbone on Drums, and Liam Duncan, Darryl "Duke" Havers on Keys. ''Let It Lie'' was released independently in 2013. In 2014, the band signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Posen
Barry Ross Posen (born July 13, 1952) is Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and the director of MIT's Security Studies Program. An expert in the field of security studies, he currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals ''International Security'' and ''Security Studies'' and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a study group member for the Hart-Rudman Commission. Posen received his B.A. from Occidental College in 1974 and his M.A. and PhD, under Kenneth Waltz, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and 1981 respectively. Posen worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation and an analyst for the Department of Defense and Center for Strategic and International Studies before becoming an assistant professor of political science at Princeton University in 1984. In 1987, he joined MIT as associate professor of political science and has taught at MIT since that time. He has also served as a consultant to the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Posen
Louis Posen (born 1971) is an American, Los-Angeles-based, record producer and the founder of both Hopeless Records and Sub City Records. Posen is known as the “Paul Newman of punk rock” for his philanthropic efforts. Early life Born in 1971, Louis Posen grew up in Los Angeles, California, United States. At age 15 he developed a passion for punk rock music after attending a concert by X at the Reseda Country Club. As a child and teenager, he also had a love for film, and he enrolled at California State University, Northridge as a film studies major, hoping to eventually become a filmmaker. However, his career plans were derailed by a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa at age 19, and he gravitated toward a music career. Career Posen founded Hopeless Records in 1993 in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles after filming a music video with the punk rock band Guttermouth. He used $1,000 in savings and a self-help book on starting a record label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Posen
Mika Posen is a Canadian violinist and music instructor based in Ottawa. She is known for collaborating and performing with acts including Timber Timbre, Agnes Obel, and Forest City Lovers and performs as a solo artist under the name Merganzer. Her first solo album, ''Mirror Maze'' was released in 2015 and was recorded over the course of several years in Berlin, Germany. A second solo album, ''Montage'' was released in 2019. Posen grew up in Ottawa and is the daughter of Canadian singer and songwriter Shelley Posen. She left at 18 and spent several years living in Guelph, Toronto, and Berlin. Posen completed a double degree in music and biology at the University of Guelph and obtained a master's degree in ethnomusicology at York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Posen
Shelley (I. Sheldon) Posen is a Canadian folklorist, singer and songwriter, a member of the folk trio Finest Kind, and a former writer of the 'Songfinder' column for ''Sing Out!'' In the 1970s, while still a graduate student, he was the Director of Mariposa in the Schools. He conducted fieldwork and recorded traditional songs extensively in the Ottawa Valley. He was Curator of Canadian Folklife at the Canadian Museum of Civilization/Canadian Museum of History from 2001 to 2015.''When Two Careers Are Better Than One'' by Randy Ray, undated. Accessed January 9, 2008. He has written on traditional song, Canadian sports and cultural heroes, and the folklore of Canadian foods such as the |
Stephen Posen
Stephen Posen (born 1939) is an American painter and photographer who works in both New York City and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Early life Posen studied painting at Washington University, where he earned his BFA in 1962. Posen continued on to graduate studies at Yale University earning his MFA in 1964. At Yale, Posen was a part of a great confluence of talents including Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Nancy Graves and Chuck Close. After graduate school, Posen spent two years in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship. Career In 1966, Posen moved to New York City and became an integral part of the Soho art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, well-known for his Photorealism work. Posen's Photorealism works were exhibited in one-man exhibitions at Ivan Karp's OK Harris Gallery in 1969, 1971 and 1974,. at Robert Miller Gallery in 1978, and in group exhibitions including the Sidney Janis Gallery and the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel, Germany, and the Yale University Art Gallery in 1974. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded In 1986
List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1986 have been awarded annually since 1925, by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." References {{reflist Lists of Guggenheim Fellowships, 1986 1986 awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Posen
Zachary E. Posen (; born October 24, 1980) is an American fashion designer. Early life Posen was born and raised in a Jewish family in New York City, residing in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan. He is the son of Susan (née Orzack), a corporate lawyer, and Stephen Arnold Posen, an artist. He has family roots in Shklow, Belarus, and Żychlin, Poland. His interest in fashion design started early, and as a child he would steal yarmulkes from his grandparents' synagogue to make ball dresses for dolls. He attended Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn and in his sophomore year interned with fashion designer Nicole Miller. As a teen, he also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award. At age 16 he enrolled in the pre-college program at Parsons The New School for Design. He graduated from Saint Ann's in 1999. For three years, Posen was mentored by curator Richard Martin at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. At age 18, he was accepted into the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posener
Posener is a surname of German origin, a demonym for a person from the Polish city Poznań (German: ''Posen''). Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Posener (born 1949), British-German journalist * Edith Head born Edith Claire Posener (1897–1981), American costume designer * Jill Posener (born 1953), British photographer and playwright * Joachim Posener (born 1964), Swedish financier and author * Julius Posener (1904–1996), German architectural historian * (born 1987), British actress; see ''Ninjak'' * Paule Posener-Kriéger (1925–1996), French Egyptologist * Zara Posener (born 1984), British actress See also * Posner (surname), Posner * Posen (surname), Posen {{surname German-language surnames Toponymic surnames Polish toponymic surnames German toponymic surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
