Category: Socially Engaged Art
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Art & Democracy Scholarship Updates!
I’ve had several art & democracy and creative civic engagement scholarship milestones over the past few months, and I wanted to share a few highlights: Faculty Fellowship I was selected to participate in the Clemson University Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars Program. This cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary faculty learning community focuses on developing humanities and…
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It All Matters Now
It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance Exhibition curated by Kyler Lasee & Tyli Scheetz, Presented in collaboration with Fall of Freedom, St. Norbert College, Bush Art Center, Godschalx Gallery, Exhibition on View from November 3 – December 5, 2025 It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance is a student-curated exhibition exploring freedom of expression…
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Imagining Human Rights
The Imagining Human Rights project was featured in the latest installment of the Behind The Arch series produced by the St. Norbert College Office of Alumni Engagement. As they state on thier site: “In this latest installment of the ‘Behind the Arch’ series, SNC professor Brandon Bauer (Art) details how students from multiple classes put…
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Last chance to see “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes” at Co-Prosperity
Tommorow is the last opportunity to see the exhibition “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes“, the first mid-career retrospective of this influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator. This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak and Nick Wylie, illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and teaching by Jen de…
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The Votes Are In!
The votes are in from the Nuclear Weapons Referenda restaged for the DEMOCRACY exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts. The installation was a reenactment of the 1982 Nuclear Freeze Referenda, in which Wisconsin was the first state to put nuclear disarmament policy to a popular vote. The final vote was 210 YES to…
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Midwest Student Voting Summit!
I will be speaking along with representatives from the Center for Artistic Activism at this year’s Midwest Student Voting Summit hosted by the Campus Vote Project and the Fair Elections Center on Friday March 24th. Rachel Gita Karp, the Unstoppable Voters Program Director, and Krystal Barrett, the Programs Coordinator, and I will be speaking about…
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Art & Society Lectures at SNC
As a part of my ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College, I will be hosting a lecture series supported by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Sky Hopinka – Thursday, March 9th at Noon Sky Hopinka is a Native American visual artist,…
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fsm. The Artist as Citizen
I submitted a short essay to the open call “The Artist as Citizen ” by the journal fsm. fsm. is a new art review journal covering contemporary arts in the Greater Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. My essay, Art in a Democratic Society, discusses my work to bring civics education to the arts and the necessary…
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Art & Democracy Fall 2022
This fall, I organized a series of exhibitions and events at St. Norbert College associated with an arts-based service-learning course called Art & Creative Democracy. The exhibitions and events were open to the campus and the community. The students in the Art & Creative Democracy course also participated in artistic activism workshops led by the…
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Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, TeachingAram Han Sifuentes, Art & Creative Democracy, Art Education, art exhibition, Bun Stout, Center for Artistic Activism, Chto Delat?, Contemporary Art, democracy, Jonas Staal, Moki Tantoco, Oliver Ressler, Service Learning, Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) -
An Imminent Wave
This semester the Art in a Democratic Society students engaged in a SEA (Socially-Engaged Art) and pedagogy project. Included here are photos and documentation from the project “An Imminent Wave”, focusing on the intersection of climate change and immigrant and refugee issues. It was created by St. Norbert College ART 285: Art in a Democratic…
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Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series
As a part of my ART 285: Art in a Democratic Society course at St. Norbert College, I am hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, September 8th – Center for Creative Citizenship…
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