The 2024 D. Jack Davis Lecture Series presents "Occupying Space: Critical Coalitions in Art Education" — A CVAD Department of Art Education Special Event!
The D. Jack Davis Lecture Series proudly presents two speakers this year to share strategies for living critically in their educational spaces and discuss how to connect these spaces of struggle through coalitions of practice. Speakers gloria j. wilson and Jorge Lucero will discuss "Occupying Space: Critical Coalitions in Art Education. Additional presenters are Sherry Abbasi, Jessica Fuentes, Monica Hernandez, Paul Kretchmer and Carolyn Scalan.
Shifting definitions of social and economic justice have ignited socio-political discourse across fields of art and education in the United States. These shifts have taken place across educational contexts, playing out on college campuses, in the media, in libraries and schools. How can art educators who work across various contexts connect, organize, and build power to address these trends through critical coalitions? How can we create and sustain a new critical educational geography?
D. Jack Davis
Join us at this year's symposium!
Registration
April 19, 9–10 a.m.
Paul Voertman Gallery,
Art Building
Lectures
10:30 a.m.: gloria j. wilson
Wilson is an associate professor of arts administration, education, and policy at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the co-founder of Racial Justice Studio at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz.
Website: gloriajwilson.com
Intro: "My government name is gloria jannette wilson. I am: Daughter of Henry Joseph and Gloria Rosario. Afro-Asian. Rebellious. Black-Filipina. Chitlins and gumbo. Pancit and Lumpia. Mobile, Ala. Deep South. Cebu City, Philippines. Transnational. Ate. -ita. Sister. Auntie to Miles, Adyson and Lauryn. Cousin. Niece. Textured crown. Daughter. Sonic-visual. Visual-sonic. Lyrical. Refusing containment. Bodyin’. Party-walkin’ pink & green, Black Pacific. Rebellious. Refusing containment. Imagining otherwise. Fugee-la. Composing all the time because it matters.
3 p.m.: Jorge Lucero
Lucero is a professor of art education and an associate dean for research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, III.
Website: jorgelucero.com
Intro: Artist Jorge Lucero is a former Chicago public school teacher. Lucero’s lifelong testing of school’s materiality happens as visible and invisible artworks, writing, and teaching. As part of his decades-long work to test the creative and conceptual pliability of "school as material," Lucero participates in and around the academy in every manner possible. He is an alum of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Penn State University. He has exhibited, performed, published, and taught through his work all over the U.S. and abroad.
