Virtual Exhibition

Visual Art is a powerful literacy and a ‘response-able” method to collectively envision and spark change.

As a symposium visionary, we invite you to contribute to an exhibition that illuminates emergent practices that ignited your artistic curiosity during this turbulent time. The virtual exhibition is designed to promote dialogue around the symposium theme with a specific emphasis on tensions you experienced during uncertain times in a virtual educational ecosystem. With the context of emergence in mind, we offer the following word pairs as prompts for inspiration:

Resistance/persistence

Clarity/Uncertainty

Stasis/Movement

Your submissions can be in any media. We ask all images are captured as jpegs @ 300 dpi resolution. Video submissions are also welcome. File capacity is 1GB total size limit. You will also need to include a short artist statement.

Please click on the submit button below for access to the google submission form. All entries received on or before April 15, 2021 will be included on the symposium website. Entries can still be submitted after the date to an exhibition album in the symposium private Facebook group.

Bethanie Irons

Vanitas Still Life 14

Digital Illustration

This work is a part of a series of digital illustrations exploring the tradition of vanitas still lifes; symbolic works of art containing mostly inanimate objects that represent the transient nature of life. Each image in this series contains items pertaining to time, death, cleanliness, play, boredom, pleasure, chaos, monotony, and hope. As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, I have become much more aware of my own mortality and the ephemeral nature of my surroundings. Utilizing the vanitas tradition, I filter this experience with the acceptance of change, contentment in stillness, and an urgency to find joy in the present.

Lauren Hermann

Reverberations

Mixed Media Textile

This work is part of a larger body of work focused on renderings, reverberations and resistance. It explores how educators come to exist in larger educational landscapes, how they resist dominant narratives in education through the content they teach and ultimately how those ways of being and doing reverberate throughout the entire system creating ruptures and instabilities.

Amy Ruopp

Push

Mixed Media Assemblage

Verbs inspire my investigations artistically, pedagogically, and in research. The ambiguity of this past year has inspired multiple investigations seeking understanding in the margins, as I navigate the hyper change present in every moment. Tensions offer thresholds, cracks in the old, and inspire possibility.

Amy Ruopp

Disrupt

Josh Hobbs

Theory & Structure

Acrylic, Oil, and Pastel

This work explores grappling with theory while trying to impose a structure onto that theory, exploring this liminal space where we as art educators play back and forth between imagining what's possible and working within spaces that require structures.

Kathy Unrath

Longhouse

Mixed Media

Longhouse speaks to the power of the collective that inhabits an internal space of change and active energy. It contains the inhabitants of the spirits of those who have nourished and informed my life.

Kathy Unrath

Longhouse View #2

Kathy Unrath

Longhouse View #3

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