Category: Teaching

• 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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  March 22, 2023

  Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Art & Creative Democracy, Campus Vote Project, Center for Artistic Activism, democracy, Fair Elections Center, St. Norbert College, Voting, Wisconsin

• 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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  December 7, 2022

  Contemporary Art, Contributions, Political Art, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Aram Han Sifuentes, Artist as Citizen, Civics Education, Contemporary Art, Political Art, Pro-Democracy Movement, Service Learning, Wisconsin

• 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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  November 17, 2022

  Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Aram 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)

• newARTSpace!

  I am included in an exhibition at a great new space in De Pere – the newARTSpace! The gallery is run by Terri Warpinski and David Graham who have over 75 years of making, teaching, and exhibiting art between the two of them. They are featuring the work of the St. Norbert College (SNC) Art faculty in the current…

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  August 11, 2022

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Teaching

  artwork, Contemporary Art, De Pere, Exhibitions and Events, newARTSpace, Wisconsin

• 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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  December 9, 2021

  Collaborations, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  climate change, Migration, Mulva Library, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, pedagogy, Socially Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Art (SEA), St. Norbert College

• Art, Technology, & Society Lecture Series

  As a part of my ART 205: Art, Technology, & 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: Thursday, February 18th @ Noon – Mark Tribe  Mark Tribe…

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  February 3, 2021

  Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Teaching

  Claudia X. Valdes, Constance Hockaday, Contemporary Art, jackie sumell, Jonas Lund, Lecture Series, Mark Tribe, Social Practice, Socially Engaged Art, St. Norbert College

• 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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  September 1, 2020

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

  Amanda Lovelee, Art in a Democratic Society, Center for Creative Citizenship, Contemporary Art, democracy, Girl Child Art Foundation, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Social Practice

• Treasure – Ben Shahn Portfolio

  I was recently interviewed for a feature in the St. Norbert College Magazine to discuss a treasure on campus. I chose to discuss the Ben Shahn portfolio “For the sake of a single verse…” in the college art collection. The feature can be found here.

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  November 8, 2018

  Interview, Teaching

  Art Collection, Ben Shahn, printmaking, Rainer Maria Rilke, St. Norbert College Magazine

• SNC Faculty Triennial Exhibition

  Click here for a “Triennial Faculty Exhibition Preview” post by Katie Hopkins on the St. Norbert College Art Galleries site. Click here for images from the St. Norbert College Magazine.

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  August 24, 2017

  Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Teaching

  Bush Art Center, education, Faculty Exhibition, St. Norbert College, Triennial Exhibition

• Visual Art & Social Statements

  I recently participated in a lecture titled “Visual Art & Social Statements: Peacemaking Through Art” with Fr. James Neilson sponsored by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice & Public Understanding. The lecture was livestreamed on facebook and can be viewed at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/normanmillercenter/videos/10154155266206713/

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  October 5, 2016

  Art History, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Teaching

  Contemporary Art, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Peace Studies, Political Art, Social Practice, St. Norbert College

• Bring The War Home on WLUK News

  WLUK News Link: St. Norbert students recreate anti-war image My ART 380 Contemporary Photographic Strategies course at St. Norbert College is restaging an archival photograph of a Vietnam War protest on the SNC campus from 1969 in front of Main Hall. The course is exploring the idea of photographic reenactments of historic photographs as a…

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  November 18, 2015

  Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Teaching

  archival materials, Bring The War Home, Bush Art Center Galleries, Fox 11 News Green Bay, Photography, St. Norbert College, Teaching Art, Vietnam War

• Composition and Community

  Here is video documentation from a Teaching & Learning workshop at St. Norbert College in which I presented about my Writing Intensive course redesign for an art history course titled: ART205- Art, Technology, and Society. Also featured in the presentation are: Drew Scheler, a professor of English and the Director of the Writing Across the…

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  November 16, 2015

  Contributions, Presentations, Teaching

  Art History, Composition and Community, Documentation, Office of Faculty Development, St. Norbert College, Teaching & Learning Workshop, Writing Intensive Course