Global Forum: “Social Justice Reflections with Ukrainian Artists”
Schedule
Fri Oct 07 2022 at 08:30 am to 03:00 pm
Location
Rio Salado College Conference Center | Tempe, AZ
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This event supports the Global Engagement Mission of the MCCCD Governing BoardAbout this Event
Global Forum: “Social Justice Reflections with Ukrainian Artists” (a faculty development program)
This event will focus on Ukrainian social justice art. Faculty will have the opportunity to learn directly from Ukrainians and Ukrainian experts about the buildup to and subsequent invasions through a focus on the importance of art, artifacts, and testimony in the social justice reflections on current events. Also, MCCCD faculty participants will be introduced to object-based learning andragogical strategies to utilize with their students.
Friday, October 7, 2022
8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Rio Salado College Conference Center
Agenda:
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome and Overview
8:45 - 9:30 am “An overview of social justice art”; David Bradley
9:30 - 10:30 am "East-Ukraine Complex: Donbas Media Art and Electronic Music 1991-2022"; Anton Lapov
10:30 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 - 11:45 am “We’ll lift up our glorious Ukraine!” - A Unified Voice among Refugees in Poland; Erica Glenn
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 pm “How non-fungible tokens (NFT) save lives during war?”; Alice Scope
1:30 - 1:45 pm Break
1:45 - 2:45 pm “Object-Based & Integrative Learning with Case Studies from Art History Co-curricular Projects”; Roja Najafi
2:45 - 3:00 pm Closing
Faculty Professional Growth Credit: Pending approval for 5.25 clock hours.
Presenters:
David Bradley “An overview of social justice art”; He is a professor of Fine Arts at Paradise Valley Community College who specializes in teaching Ceramics. He earned a BFA degree in Painting from La. Tech University, and a MFA degree in Ceramics from the University of North Texas. He has taught at PVCC since January of 2000. Over that span of time he has led 13 Study Abroad programs to China, Mexico and Cuba, and is preparing to co-lead a month long Study Abroad program to Florence, Italy in May, 2023.
Dr. Roja Najafi is an art historian, educator, and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is the lead of the Art History Program at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona. Roja holds a Ph.D.in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in Art History and Criticism from Brooklyn College, CUNY. Roja's research focuses on materiality and evaluates the fluidity between abstraction and figuration through an investigation of the aesthetic, critical, and historical approaches in postwar and contemporary art. Before joining CGCC in Arizona, Roja was curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where she curated special exhibitions including The New Art: A Milestone Collection Fifty Years Later; Off the Wall: One Hundred Years of Sculpture, and Postwar Abstraction: Variations, and Moving Vision: Op and Kinetic Art from the Sixties and Seventies. From 2014 to 2017 Roja was the Curator of Collections at the Strake Jesuit Art Museum; and prior to that, she was the 2013-2014 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection in Houston. Roja writes about modern and contemporary art concentrating on the reception of avant-garde and counter-cultural practices in Iran and the United States.
Anton Lapov (b. 1984, Luhansk, Ukraine) is a media artist, computer musician and curator from Ukraine. Member of art collectives Art Cluster R+N+D and Lugansk Contemporary Diaspora; organizer of events in the field of experimental electronic music, media-art and museological research. His artistic practice combines methodologies of humanities and critical theory with computational aesthetics ideas. Lapov’s works were presented in Ukraine, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, U.K, and the U.S. Recently Lapov is studying at MFA program "Digital Technology" and School of Art, ASU where he is working on interactive sound environments. https://cargocollective.com/antonlapov
Dr. Erica Kyree Glenn is the Director of Choral Activities at Brigham Young University - Hawaii (current) and has conducted choirs at Dean College and Arizona State University. She is a 2022 Fulbright scholar to Ukraine and has been reassigned to Poland where she works with refugees. Erica is the founder of Virtual Choir Conductor and the International Virtual Children's Choir. In 2020, Erica was named a Conducting Fellow in the Cortona Sessions for New Music, attended the Kodaly Music Institute, and was hired by the Kennedy Center to generate video content as a Music Teaching Artist. She also received a $25,000 American Councils Grant. In 2019, Erica received ASU's GPSA Teaching Excellence Award, a Department of State Title VIII Grant for Eastern European Research and Training, and full funding to guest conduct the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra in workshop. Erica holds a BM and MM in Music Theory and Composition as well as an Ed.M. in The Arts in Education from Harvard, where she conducted empirical research under Dr. Howard Gardner and presented at the Harvard Arts in Education Conference. In 2015, Erica received a grant to study the healing effects of Dalcroze Eurhythmics on Russian orphans with Reactive Attachment Disorder and presented an interest session at the 2016 Western Division ACDA Conference. Erica also spent three years developing an innovative and collaborative performing arts department at the American International School of Utah as the founding Performing Arts Director. Her choirs consistently received superior markings at state festivals, took first in statewide competitions, and were featured in PBS specials. As a composer and arranger, Erica has worked with Charles Strouse, Richard Maltby, Jason Robert Brown, and the music directors of several Broadway shows. Her choral compositions have been commissioned by choirs across America, and her first opera won VocalWorks' International Opera-in-a-Month Competition. Her most recent musical received both a developmental reading at the 2012 New York Musical Theater Festival and a 2014 world premiere at the American Repertory Theater. Erica currently publishes with LazyBee Scripts, and her shows have been performed throughout the US, the UK, and as far away as Germany, Australia, and Hong Kong. Current research interests include the impact of music on Ukrainian refugees and the lost history and music of the early 20th century Ukrainian composer Stefania Turkevych.
Alice Scope is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine. Alice (@alicescope) is an independent art curator, educator, and cultural producer based in Los Angeles. In 2016, she founded the first Experimental Art Center AkT in Ukraine, which supports young Ukrainian artists and was the first centre in Ukraine to showcase art in Virtual Reality for a broad audience. In 2019, she started a Digital Art Education program Risa.Today for school kids in Kenya. Alice Scope is a curator and cultural producer at Vellum LA, a women-led NFT gallery for digital art based in Los Angeles, where she has worked with artists like Krista Kim - the creator of The Mars House and founder of the Techism Movement, trailblazing Afro-Caribbean artist IX Shells - the highest-selling female artist in NFTs, and Keiken - an international art collective that creates the speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain and performance. Alice is also the founder of the web3 curatorial studio “Cultural Policy” where she explores the topic of posthumanism, potential future adaptations and pushing the borders between reality and fantasy. Her recent exhibitions “Posthuman Island”, “Webtaura”, “Hotel Blue” were shown at SXSW, Wrong Biennale, Denver Digerati Digital Art Festival, EDAF.
This program is in collaboration with International Education at Maricopa Community Colleges and the Melikian Center at Arizona State University.
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