SYNCHRONOUS 

11:00- 5:00 pm - Open Hours 

Invitation to activate the gallery space as a collective commons throughout the day. Participants are welcome to come and go, engaging with the scheduled group activities, read/copy/contribute materials from the collectively generated library, create motivational/protest posters, or respond to written prompts in the gallery space which will be collected for a publication at the end of the event. 

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11:00 am – Welcome Breakfast 

Meet other participants as we enter a day of discussion and resource sharing. Coffee and breakfast with vegan and gluten-free options. 

11:30 am – Syllabus Share and Book Making  

Participants will bring assignments, syllabus ideas, and other teaching resources to exchange. Submissions will be compiled on-site and shared with attendees. These resources will continue to be compiled throughout the day. Scanners, copiers, and printers will be available for use. Leave with a self-collated book of new assignments and resources! Digital library.

12:00 pm – Open Space Technology: Let’s Discuss the Issues You Care About 

Equity, accessibility, resource sharing, teaching under the current administration, student engagement, diversity, self care, burnout, work/life balance, the job market, collective action, labor distribution… What do you want to talk about when it comes to higher education and the arts? Open Space Technology is a dynamic, group-moderated method for facilitating complex conversations that can be used both in and out of the classroom. Participants will use this method to discuss issues of higher education in the arts as proposed by participants. Come with issues you wish to discuss and find others to share conversation in small groups. Let’s talk about what we need to talk about. Learn More. 

1:00 pm – The Adjuncts Are In (facilitated by Miranda Holmes and Hannah Parrett) 

A conversation led by adjunct professors from the Ohio art community on the realities of adjuncting, sharing perspectives on professional capacity, possibilities of connection and community, and alternative academic paths.

2:00 pm – Workshop on Quitting with Laura Larson 

What happens if we quit? What are the ways forward outside academia? How can quitting – or saying no – be a form of liberation and care? Participants are invited to consider and ask these questions together. 

3:00 PM –  People’s Banner Workshop with Migiwa Orimo 

The People’s Banner Workshop is an ongoing project facilitated by Migiwa Orimo. The workshop provides free visual aids (banners, signs, props) for direct action, protest rallies, picket lines, and other street actions for social justice. Join for a conversation about working under the current administration(s) while making banners and protest signs. 

4:00 PM – Activity: The Long Table Discussion about Arts Education 

We will close Office Hours with a long table, a feminist method for group discussion and listening. Participants will annotate a large paper placed on the table with notes from the discussion, imagining ways forward in arts education before we disperse and return to our roles as educators, students, and artists. The Long Table Discussion is an “experimental open public forum that is a hybrid performance installation roundtable discussion dinner party designed to facilitate dialogue through the gathering of people with common interests” developed by Lois Weaver. 

5:00 PM – Reception / Closing Office Hours

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