Posters and Online Posters
Preservation and Promotion of Indigenous Language and Culture through Artistic Activities in Education
Virtual Poster Karla Del Carpio Ovando
The research findings of a qualitative study I conducted at a Spanish-Indigenous elementary bilingual school will be shared in this poster. The beauty of cultural and linguistic richness will be discussed through the sharing of examples of the activities that young indigenous children do in order to promote their native language and culture. Examples of this are: poetry readings/recitals, bilingual theater plays, participation in national bilingual academic programs and competitions, etc. Art has been a significant tool that has facilitated the promotion of the indigenous Tsotsil language and culture.
Transitory Sound and Movement Collective: Interpretive Performance Art Model
Poster/Exhibit Session Cherie Acosta
The Transitory Sound and Movement Collective: Collaborative Art, evaluates the communal process of performance art and the development of a novel improvisational language utilizing technology, music and the moving image. Employing a dialogical language through collective art making, the collective of artists, formed in Houston, Texas consists of sound designer and founder Lynn Lane, with an evolution of filmmakers, musicians, dancers and vocalists. The group rejects established rules of collaboration within the traditional framework of performance. Breaking with the strict interpretation of roles, which historically have created a hyper divide between director, performer, and designer, the collective operates outside the parameter of the shared lens of the written work. Neoteric and transitory, it creates a cross-germination of musical language facilitated by a purely improvisational setting. The approach is a significant and sustaining model in today’s world of reductions in arts funding. With an eye to the future, artistic collectives provide freedom, interpretive performance art and the flexibility of artistic expression absent the constraints of traditional oppressive artistic structures
Diversity Study in Arts and Entertainment Venue Management
Virtual Poster Jill Schinberg
The purpose of this project is to investigate the results of the 2017 International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) study of diversity in the arts and entertainment venue industry. This project explores the questions: What are the demographics of the arts and entertainment venue industry?, What relationships, if any, exist between the categorical variables (e.g. the relationship between job category and gender) of this data set?, and What is the probability of one under-represented class being in one group over another (e.g. job category and gender)? Leaders and staff of arts and entertainment venues varying in size and function in North America and beyond were invited to participate in the study by way of a web-based survey. The survey was conducted by the professional researchers for VenueDataSource, the research arm of the International Association of Venue Managers. The 2017 Diversity Study is the first self-study of its kind in the public assembly sphere. The answers to research questions concerning demographics, relationships, and probabilities will provide much needed information to the association, researchers, employers, and job-seekers about the diversity (or lack thereof) in the industry today.
Connected Bodies?: In Search of the Affective Dimension
Poster/Exhibit Session Lucy Boermans
Since the turn of the millennium a surge in digital technology has led to a rise in the adoption of creative practice utilising interactive media across a multitude of fields. Now, almost 20 years on, aside quickening technological advancement and swelling digital development, I sense a developing “counteract”. As a global inhabitant, living and working within an increasingly digital landscape, I begin to wonder ‘why this perception?’… and so, I approach my line of enquiry; positioned from a curiosity-driven perspective, via a hermeneutical framework to ask: what if, running counter to our exponentially expanding “digital body,” there lay an equally significant “inner body,” or affective dimension? How do they relate to one another? If we are to consider their relationship as “intercorporeal” (Merleau Ponty) then perhaps we are looking towards a “readjustment” or “re-balancing” of bodily relations? "Connected Bodies? In Search of the Affective Dimension" is about an exploration of “this neglected relationship” via the affective side of the art experience.
Performance Art and Its Features in Orlan’s Artworks
Virtual Poster Mahmonir Shirazi
In Twenty century, the New Arts phenomena appeared. One of them is performance art which has its definition and rules. As technology developed, the artists worked in different fields of new arts. In their idea, every things can convey the meaning. Many of them look at the body as a medium and use its functions to convey their messages through their art works. Some of them show masochistic behaviors toward their bodies. One among such artists is Orlan. The French feminist artist, who changes her body into a medium for cultural motives by subjecting it to several operations. Her surgeries were broadcasted in galleries and museums all over the world. She called her works carnal art and she considers them as performance art pieces. This article is an introduction to performance art and its features and then comparing them with Orlan art. Applied research method is descriptive analytical, and data are collected from libraries.
Empowering Knowledge of Cultural Design Authenticity and Inclusion through Basic Design Pedagogy: A Visual Analysis of Indigenous Design
Poster/Exhibit Session Analee Paz
This visual analysis highlights cultural identity awareness by empowering knowledge of design authenticity through art pedagogy. This proposal describes the support of interdisciplinary learning methodologies of the formal elements of art and principles of design via unique international indigenous design. This study serves as an initial specimen for investigating details from specific indigenous artisan creations with examples from Wixáritari, Sami, and Ainu designs. The concept was developed from observations of current art and design education, cultural identity and design inclusion, as well as established teaching theories that guide current pedagogical methods. The objective of the work is to encourage supplementary understanding of cultural identity within formal design education. The reflections considered through this research lead to the issue not solely of art and design, but of how to learn and teach art and design. By providing methodologies that organize this content, the discipline can have conscientious sources of information to begin with and build upon. Furthermore, it creates more well-rounded and knowledgeable interdisciplinary interests and empathy. This study acknowledges that art and design education and research should be progressively geared towards addressing multicultural audiences with critical solutions that consider both the audience’s and their own cultural orientation.
Black Aesthetic in African American Interior Design and Decoration in the Home Environment
Virtual Poster Jacqueline Carmichael ASID, CKD, NCIDQ
This article explores the various influences, specifically African Art and art of the African Diaspora that have shaped the development of African American Interior Decoration and Design. We consider these influences through an examination of their manifestation in the prevailing social and cultural constructs in which African Americans reside to create homemaking. In understanding the meaning of the Black Aesthetic, we explore its evolution by examining the role of memory, territoriality, displacement and place to create meaningful spaces from the pre-colonial period to current day. We also consider other factors that can be factored into the definition of the Black Aesthetic such as social practices, forms, colors, and beliefs. A determination as to what truly constitutes the Black Aesthetic is not without its challenges as other influences such as those originating through and from European or Western cultures cannot be entirely delineated from the Black Aesthetic. However, to the extent possible, we make a best effort to define this aesthetic by examining evidence obtained through a variety of sources such as media, contemporary arts on historic African American interiors, and African American furniture historians. Others include evidence obtained from archival findings that depict home as cultural repository—home as a container for artifacts, paintings, art, and more through and from African American archives and photography, media and in contemporary art, in both traditional, contemporary and historic context through a visual representation.
The Feminine Gaze: Female Fashion Photographers from Midcentury America
Virtual Poster Marie Botkin
Among the various types of imagery that exist in the landscape of visual culture, fashion photographs are inherently complex. Several layers of cultural meaning occur in one flattened hypertext and can be interpreted by various fields including psychologists, anthropologists, art historians, media scholars and dress scholars. Many studies focus on body image, media impact, and advertising and are conducted to measure the impact on viewers. Where some emphasize thin idealized body types popular in contemporary fashion magazines (Yu, 2014) others emphasize different types of magazines in studies and conduct gender analyses (Kang, 1997; Lindner, 2004). Findings often point towards evidence of male dominance and the power of the image to make women conform to the ideals presented. There is little to acknowledge that the creator may be a female. To remedy this, this study will address this issue with a focus on female photographers that worked for major fashion magazines during the middle of the twentieth century. The method used for examining content will be Goffman’s frame analysis (1979). Goffman’s frame analysis is a coding system which focuses primarily on subtle and underlying clues in the picture content of images that contain messages in terms of gender roles. Analysis concentrates on positioning and placing, size, eye contact, posture and hand gestures. The categories that were used for analysis include: relative size, function ranking, feminine touch, ritualization of subordination and licensed withdrawal. Because of their notoriety and the relative ease with which their work can be identified, the images of Lee Miller, Lillian Bassman and Louise Dahl-Wolfe will make up the pool of photographs for analysis (Dahl-Wolfe, 1984; Bassman, 1997; Burke, 2005). Brief backgrounds on each photographer will also be presented along with a discussion of the impact of gender behind the lens.
Art as an Avenue for Empathic Attunement and Healing in Children’s Hospitals
Poster/Exhibit Session Brooke Hughes
Art has been used as a pathway for healing throughout history. The use of art, creativity, and image can help facilitate connection, as well as provide a space for empathic attunement to Self and Others. Recent neurobiological research has shown evidence for increased immune response when one experiences an empathic attunement. Additionally, empathic attunement assists the healing process through psychological subjective reports of increased well-being. My presentation will highlight through my work and observations how the arts can help assist with creating empathic attunement. I will also explore how feelings of loss and isolation experienced by children in the hospital can be addressed through communal art experiences, allowing for the opportunity to enter into a sense of connection, belonging and hope.
Visions : Impact of Visual Positivity
Poster/Exhibit Session Marielle Benedicto Ednalino
Visual communication is a source of information that has the potential to connect societies and communities. However, such communication does not necessarily reveal the true agenda behind the visual presentation of messages. Amidst rising social tension around the world, visual messages increasingly have become vehicles for oppression, segregation, and discrimination. In response, my creative work and scholarly research seek to understand how such imagery could achieve opposite goals My work creates temporary interactive spaces that encourage audiences to contemplate societal messages and promote new perspectives. The exhibition is constructed in two parts. First, vinyl wall imagery communicates social issues relevant to present times. Second, graphic posters placed on top contradict the messages of the vinyl. The exhibit uses this juxtaposition to promote increased positive awareness and a recognition of the ways humans are incredibly “editable.” My research emphasizes how the human brain combines information from visual experience, synthesizes it, and draws on past experiences to provide a manipulated perspective of the world. By juxtaposing word and image we can re-orient individuals and encourage them to consider social situations in new ways. The gap between the human reception of an image and the actual reality of experience thus opens a space for conversation about society and individuals.
Funding Equity among St. Louis City Arts Nonprofit Organizations: What Determines the Amount of Contributions, Gifts, and Grants?
Poster/Exhibit Session Elizabeth Deichmann
Among the St. Louis region's arts 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, the majority of contributed funding goes to the largest nonprofits while small and medium nonprofits receive a disproportionately smaller amount of contributed funding by comparison. Using multivariate analysis, the institutional and larger socioeconomic determinants influencing the amount of contributions, gifts, and grants that arts nonprofits receive are examined and tested. An original theory for the distribution of arts funding based on Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram’s Social Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy (1993) is also tested and shows contributions are influenced by socially constructed groups of arts nonprofits.
The Importance of Projecting Disability in Narrative, Art and Experience
Poster/Exhibit Session Chris Ewart
Through a range of contemporary film, fiction, art and performance we investigated moments of disability agency and resistance to ableism. Understanding disability theory – including how normalcy and able-bodiedness operate in compulsory fashion, how disability and the disabled figure function in narrative, and how disability brings an important, often-overlooked aesthetic to art and culture – helps us situate the sociocultural importance of our work as artists, our experiences and the experiences of others in equitable ways. Even as the late Tobin Siebers suggests “disability enlarges our vision of human variation and difference, and puts forward perspectives that test presuppositions dear to the history of aesthetics” (Disability Aesthetics 3), surprisingly, a disability studies perspective was new for my students. My poster presentation will share a few key concepts relative to disability studies, art and social practice as well as some achievements of our class, including brief summaries and images of presentations and student comments that project an ethos of disability. Doing so provides a model of disability as knowledge and community for students at Emily Carr and our university more generally.
Revitalizing the Town of Namie and Reconstructing Its Community : Introducing Digital Calendar NAMIEHOURS
Virtual Poster Kanako Sasaki
Fukushima evacuees from the Nuclear explosion in 2011 have been oppressing own voice to speak about their lives, because of the stigmatization of being an evacuee. many of their stories and voices are stored away and forgotten. The artistic project aims to provide a place where they can feel home and securely able to express own voice. As well as to inherit local stories permanently to next generation by introducing artistic expression. The artistic project designed a web calendar that can upload a photograph with Namie memories per day. The team conduced photography workshops with the evacuees from town of Namie, Fukushima and analysis their photographic pieces. Visual media such as photograph can express emotion and inspire other related stories.
Teaching Adults with Varying Abilities: Pre-service Art Teachers’ Reflections
Virtual Poster Lisa LaJevic
This study focuses on how one art education program has started to offer pre-service art teachers experiences working with adults with varying abilities. Weaving together the course instructor’s thoughts with the pre-service teachers’ reflections and adult artwork, this poster introduces the junior-level art education course that required pre-service art teachers to lead an art gallery tour and hands-on printmaking workshop to adults with varying abilities. Because it was the first time this experience was offered, this research aims to highlight the pre-service teachers’ reflections that hold implications for future use in our own program as well as other teacher education programs.
Bigger and Better Ideas: Strategic Creativity Training
Poster/Exhibit Session Anna Szabados
The paper will identify close to 20 discipline independent creativity techniques that will allow the development of bigger and better ideas. In addition, the presenter will share the results of data collected in training workshops using pre workshop and post workshop participant surveys. Vision2 Action is committed to providing useful creativity training information to individuals from all walks of life.
