Art and Education Social Justice Symposium

Mark your calendars for the 9^th Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium on Jan. 27th and 28th at 9:00 am in the Williams Johnston Building, Department of Art Education, 143 Honors Way at Florida State University. Social justice is a broad objective that inspires an interdisciplinary approach and of interest is how art and design can support such initiatives. We would like to welcome keynote speaker, and award winning author Dr. Amber Johnson, from Pennsylvania State Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. Among other notable accolades, Dr. Johnson founded Justice Fleet, a mobile museum that travels into neighborhoods teaching about “Radical Forgiveness, Radical Imagination, Transfuturism and Black Girl Magic.” https://youtu.be/Lh8KUSV21-E

Besides the symposium format there will be two workshops offered at no additional cost!

• Waging Peace is a citywide community art project developing in the 2017/18 academic year. It brings together over 10 Leon County schools in collaboration with the Museum of Art at Florida State University. In addition, it brings together community artists in a workshop series held at a local DIY art space, The Plant. The inaugural workshop for this series will take place on Saturday, Janurary 27^th, at 11:45 am  and 2:00 pm.
• Led by Hannah Schwadron, Assistant Professor of Dance at FSU, this interactive demonstration introduces the presenter’s practice of dance improvisation through a focus on its embodied politics of social engagement.  The presenter and collaborating dancers share improvisation skills, exercises and dynamics that frame a dance practice premised upon mobilizing “structures for change”.

Contact Rachel Fendler, Art Education Assistant Professor: rfendler@fsu.edu  for more information.