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Olivia Gude
Olivia Gude
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Olivia Gude is an artist and educator, recognized for her contributions to reimagining underlying structures and assumptions of contemporary art education curriculum in the 21st century, drawing on examples of art projects generated in innovative art and culture programs, including Spiral Workshop. Olivia also makes and writes about collaborative public art mural and mosaic projects. She is the author of an Americans for the Arts white paper “Intertwining Practices of Public Art and Art Education”. She is Professor Emerita of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as Professor Emerita of the University of Illinois at Chicago. In recent years, Olivia has united her work as a collaborative community artist and as an art educator by designing participatory spaces in which teachers investigate and re-invent the social practices and outcomes of art education.
Keynote Lecture - Saturday, November 14 10:30AM in 62 Krannert
Unfinished Projects: Newly Imagining the Artist Teacher Participant
What makes a project worth finishing? What makes a purpose worth pursuing?How might a plethora of unfinished projects be understood, not as piles of wasted efforts, but as the necessary twists, turns, and seeming dead ends that are characteristic of the anxiety and uncertainty of truly creative pursuits open to unexpected outcomes? How might we choose other paths and unfamiliar processes?
A project is an individual or collective investigation or enactment, making use of ways of thinking, researching, processing, making, and being. It is designed to achieve an aim, often a unique outcome or output that did not exist before. Ongoing, routine, and repeatable activities are not projects.
Student teachers, you are critical to envisioning art education practices and projects that meet the cultural (hence also the social and political) challenges of life today. We ask that you engage in the paradoxical tasks of being observant, humble, kind and respectful (of your mentors, peers, and your students) and of being radically open, bravely sharing your own oddest instincts and glimmers of fresh ways of making and being in the world. We ask that you be lighthearted, openminded and playful. We ask that you approach this play with concentration and seriousness of purpose.
What is the project (the deep purposes) of contemporary art education?
How might we figure this out together?
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