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Here's a note from Pat Fallon, Dept Head and Chair of the Art Department at Ursuline College. Pat has offered to lead the Nov 2008 Midtown Brews conversation addressing art and advocacy.
From Pat:
"I will talk about advocacy in the visual arts in terms of artists who have put their work in the service of advocating a particular point of view. Actually it is much more dramatic than that. Visual artists speak through images when they advocate and that is what affects the viewers of their work. "
Pat will have returned from leading an October presentation at The Twenty-Second Annual National Conference co-hosted by The Humanities and Sciences Department of the School of VISUAL ARTS Presents on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists:
Design, the Arts and the Political: images and words that propagate and dissent
Guest speaker at the conference is Steven Heller, Graphic Designer who will address, "Iron Graphics: Branding Totalitarian States." More information on the conference.
In NYC, Pat will talk about
advocacy, using images, and hopes to be able to present the same info or something
similar for the Brews. That presentation involves how we teach art
students about the power of art and advocacy. I would also like to
involve one of our faculty, and possibly
some students also.
A rough outline would be:
- Introduction to the topic
multi-media presentation - Another point of view-------one of our faculty possibly from El Salvador
- A student presentation and/or a short video of UC students protesting at the gates of Fort Benning, GA
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