Posters and Online Posters
Poster sessions present preliminary results of works in progress or projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. These sessions allow for engagement in informal discussions about the work with interested delegates.
The Arts Are Important
Poster Exhibit/Session Narelle Byrne
Propaganda has been used as an effective tool to influence communities throughout history. This study will review examples of its “negative” outcomes and contrast them with a more recent “positive” application of propaganda. The aim of this study is to evaluate what has gone before: what has been negative and what has been positive. Drawing on the teaching philosophies of Maxine Greene, whose expertise surrounding an “awakening approach” has been internationally recognised, the role of art education will be investigated. By challenging uncertainty and fear through creative art and music, we can begin to engage in the process of letting go to learn or accept a new way that activates the psyche to change so that a positive direction is made possible. In this way creative awareness through art education can assist individuals in the re-creation of a positive self-identity that promotes communal harmony. To demonstrate Greene’s theory, a case study basing on narrative monologues as testimonials from the artists and qualitative interviews with directors and founders of the DAH Theatre in Belgrade will include observations of the surrounding socio-cultural environment recorded through extensive note taking, photographs and film. Following this important investigation, an exegesis and visual/musical exhibition will be presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of applying Maxine Greene’s awakening theory in art education as the basis for a new grounded theory of positive propaganda based on creative engagement.
Teaching Second Languages Creatively
Virtual Poster Karla Del Carpio Ovando
In terms of second language teaching, it is important for students to find their own voices, discover their own knowledge and wisdom, and become aware of their own talents and capacities to share, learn, inquire, analyze and create. Therefore, language learners should be given the opportunity to participate in activities where they can discover their own talents, for instance, through discussions, debates, artistic works, creation of poems, singing of songs, games and teamwork activities while using the target language. Also, critical thinking skills can be developed through the use of this type of activities which can be artistic and fun and can bring the community together. In addition, these techniques can help create a relaxing environment in the classroom where students’ affective filters are open to welcome and practice the target language. Thus, the purpose of this presentation is to share some ideas to make the teaching and learning process more enjoyable through artistic activities.
The Obsidian Lens: Postcards of the Mexican Revolution
Poster Exhibit/Session Guillermo Alejandro Murguia
The focus of this presentation is the photo postcards of the Mexican Revolution. For the first time a major conflict was recorded using a hand held portable camera. The portability of the camera both enhanced and detracted from the medium. In its favor was the very portability that allowed it to be carried into remote places while allowing it a certain agility and spontaneity. The drawback: the postcard lacked the grand scale of the large plate negative cameras of earlier war photographers, and the quality of the prints was somewhat arbitrary depending on the skill of each photographer. In spite of the drawbacks, among those photo postcards that are technically excellent some of them must be ranked as works of great power and emotion equal to any art. The best of the photo postcards of the Mexican Revolution are not only works of art but also of history. As portraits of a generation that went to war, they represent art and artifact, and the photographers are artists of rare vision. As history they preserve the memory of that bloody conflict in detail, the names and faces and battles and dead, the forgotten or ignored history of Mexico still survives in these images. The photo postcards of the Mexican Revolution also expand the knowledge of this historic event by documenting what traditional photographers and historians have ignored. I can do a PowerPoint presentation with examples of the photo postcards.
Counseling Children with Art Therapy
Poster Exhibit/Session James (Todd) Mc Gahey
The use of visual arts in counseling children is explored. The benefits associated with the use of art therapy include helping counselors access thoughts and emotions that may not be verbalized. Art therapy is a productive, non-threatening method of expression for children. It assists the counseling process in revealing the child's family dynamics or systems, self-expression, conflicts and perspective. Various techniques and goals are explored in this poster.
Image Printing on Glass Using New Luminescent Materials
Virtual Poster Ana Margarida Rocha, Teresa Almeida, César Laia, Graciela Machado
Images on vitreous surfaces have a rich history, going back to industrial approaches, first developed in the ceramic industry, in the 18th century. A research project conducted at FBAUP and VICARTE UNL/FCT, is aiming to extending the scope of fine art printing on glass by combining the creative flexibility of the digitally processed image and the autographic image. Working with a multidisciplinary team of artists and chemists, new luminescent materials are being tested and used as ink to print on glass, through direct methods and decals. Luminescent glasses have a very attractive aesthetic effect, because different colours are obtained with irradiation of UV light. This represent a unique opportunity of application in artistic practice. Playing with transparency, translucency and luminescence allows manipulating visual perception, between ways of seeing and hiding, revealing and veiling, altering, controlling or adulterating vision. All this results in a wide range of possibilities in terms of the quality of the printed surface and its physical presence, available to the artist.
The Politics of New Nature Inspired Music: Hawai’i-based Projects Harness the Power of Music towards an Environmentally Conscious World
Poster Exhibit/Session Jon Magnussen
Nature has served as muse to composers for centuries. Social and political issues have also motivated composers. Until recently, these sources of inspiration have largely remained pure and unmixed within discrete musical works (e.g., Beethoven’s admiration for Revolutionary politics in his “Eroica” Symphony No. 3; Messiaen’s tribute to Utah’s Bryce Canyon in “Des Canyons Aux Etoiles”). However, since the recent arrival of conflicting narratives of climate change—and, by extension, science—a music inspired by nature might now well be taken as a political statement. In this poster session, Hawaiʻi-based composer Jon Magnussen explores the meaning of composing nature- and place-based music in the current “post-truth” era. With examples from recent projects inspired by nature and "aloha ʻāina" (literally, “love of the land”, a concept central to life for indigenous Hawaiians since ancient times), the question of messaging is investigated. Music examples include the "Symphony of Native Hawaiian Birds" (2018), a collective symphonic work, in which six Hawaiʻi-based composers collaborated with six animators, artists and biologists and the Hawai’i Symphony, to create a performance of six animations, each exploring a theme related to the loss of native Hawaiian bird species; and "Kauila Oboe Stories" (2019), an oboe concerto for J. Scott Janusch in celebration of a brand new instrument fashioned by Howarthʻs of London out of once common but now extremely rare kauila wood. Endemic to Hawai'i and known for its excellent “steel” qualities, kauila wood was essential to pre-contact daily activities including farming, music-making, war, healing, games, and more.
The Political and Social Violence That Influenced African-American Art Muralist in the Black Urban Communities
Poster Exhibit/Session Willie F. Hooker
During the 20th Century African American Art murals reflected the conscious of social and political revolution that the United States and civilization were going through. The African-American artists, Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff used the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera’s strategy, but tailored it towards the context of African-American life to concerns to the general public, especially the African-American communities. An important chapter in the 20th century art known as the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to Aaron Douglas as a muralist. During this time Aaron Douglas adopted his signature abstract style of traditional African imagery, which resembled the murals of Ancient Egypt. Aaron Douglas composed expansive murals that the daily struggles of African-American society in the 20th century. In pictorial form Aaron Douglas murals takes the viewer on an historical journey of the black experience.
Public Art for Highland Avenue Center in North Carolina: Case Study
Poster Exhibit/Session Tammy L Evans
The visual arts and well-being are examined in numerous ways in healthcare environments and by arts organizations. Nearly 50% of all hospitals in the United States have art programs. According to Guide to Evidence Based Art at Health Design.org studies by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH) concluded that hospitals use art “to create a more uplifting environment” and “create a welcoming atmosphere and build community relations.” Additionally, 73% of hospitals reported having permanent displays of visual art. The public art project for Highland Avenue Center was initiated by the healthcare organization through a request for proposals (RFP) to local artists and arts organizations. My RFP was made as an educator to facilitate an experiential learning opportunity for students to engage in a community arts based project. My proposal included development of wall graphics reflecting the values and intent of caregivers and staff. Visitors of the Center will often be experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Visitors and patients should be comfortable coming to the Center and the aesthetics would match the intent. Every sense should relay to the individual the Center is a warm, safe and caring place to be and that they are important and respected. The building cornerstone contains the three words that are the foundation of their philosophy, “Dignity, Hope and Healing.” My case study exhibit will reveal the partnership, pedagogy and execution of the public art project.
Sound | Garment: Tuning in to the Unheard Voices of Everyday Garments
Poster Exhibit/Session Melike Ceylan
The Sound | Garment project focuses on a multi-sensory experience of the wearer, listener, and performer. Allowing a listening environment with sounds of everyday garments and bodily movements, the work questions various relationships between the self, the individual body, hearing and tactility to explore which features of textile and sound contribute to identity. In an intimate space, a variety of garments are organized according to the sonic and tactile qualities of their fabric (soft/harsh, noisy/quiet). The audience is welcomed to touch, rub, or wear them, or to interact with them in any other way. With the sensor technology, amplified and processed sounds become part of the sonic environment. The work invites the audience to a multi-level listening atmosphere.
Applying Mentoring Research to the Training of Teaching Artists
Virtual Poster Marcia Bosits
In traditional piano pedagogy courses, the student teaching component is often considered the most impactful aspect of the class. The two critical aspects of that component are the developmental relationships between young teachers and their students and the feedback supplied by the supervisor. Logistically, supervisors simply cannot observe all of the teaching that takes place. In addition, their comments and suggestions will necessarily be viewed from the perspective of young adults who remain conscious of the fact that the supervisor provides the final evaluation, i.e. grade. Would a defined process of peer mentoring enhance the development of instructional skills in music? What is the recommended balance of supervisor and peer input? This poster session will share results of an experiment at Northwestern University that replaced some of the typical supervisor evaluation of graduate piano pedagogy students with peer guidance. Included will be descriptions of teaching situations on campus and within the larger Chicago community, sample peer mentoring rubrics, and feedback from students involved as both mentors and mentees in this project. The broader benefits to participants in defined mentoring situations - professional growth, personal discovery, intrinsic satisfaction from helping another succeed, and improved interaction within the larger artistic community – will be presented to help other supervisors consider similar approaches within arts education programs.
Fringe Festivals: A Gateway for Artists?
Poster Exhibit/Session Cameron Abbott-Betts
This Practice as Research study will produce the first fringe festival to take place in the town of Colchester, analysing the response and reflections of participating artists as to the cultural and career benefits of performing on the "fringes" and to assess the repercussions of the Festival on the diversity and range of arts offered to the local community. The creative practice element of this work is both original and developmental. It will produce a three-day inaugural fringe festival in May 2020, which will consist of 6 participating venues and 25 engaged companies. This will allow me to embody the roles of both a creative producer and researcher and it seeks to explore the role of an arts festival from an artist’s perspective. It is an interdisciplinary study that incorporates curatorial studies, cultural creation in regional locations, event management and arts administration. Built around rich case studies of five international fringe festivals and highlighting their overlaps and differences, the research undertaken will analyse the curation and programming within a fringe festival format, in order to unpick the social, economic and ideological factors at work. I will also use first-hand observations and a series of original interviews to accompany my written thesis. This will document my practice and measure the impact of using a variety of research methods. My thesis will contribute to research in theatre scholarship and develop the new theoretical knowledge in this field.
Is it Green?: Evoking an Objective Digital Color Sense
Virtual Poster Marcy L. Koontz, Amanda J. Thompson
Accurately identifying the color of an artifact or object in situ usually requires the use of a spectrophotometer and a Munsell color chart. Once determined, the translation of color often gets altered as photographs are taken and uploaded to online databases, printed or viewed on a variety of computer and mobile screens of variable calibration. The aim of this study is twofold: First, to test the accuracy and reliability of a mobile app and two portable spectrophotometers. Second, to identify the exact CIE L*a*b* color of three 1920s green dresses, with visible signs of fading and discoloration, from the collection of The Fashion Archive. An adapted zone system for assessing color was developed based on quality assurance product zoning grids used within the apparel manufacturing sector and the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Grid System method of recording archeological sites. Color readings were taken using a mobile app and both the Nix MiniTM and the Nix ProTM spectrophotometers to compare accuracy and reliability. The exact color of each artifact was calculated by averaging multiple readings whose selection was determined by the adapted zone system for the CIE L* a* b* coordinates. An overall CIE L*a*b* reading was then assigned to each of the three green dresses that can be used as a reference and keyword search for the dresses’ data and identification in the archival record system and database.
Displaying Art, Audience and Community Engagement
Virtual Poster Heidi hogden Ms.
Taking the Arts in Society 2019 of theme of "Art as Communication: The Impact of Art as a Catalyst for Social Change” I would like to share my work as a visual artist. As a visual artist, I work primarily in drawing, installation, and community engagement. My primary research interests include creative projects that explore the relationship between place and identity; projects that examine the natural world through visual art; projects that explore memory through the language of drawing; and the merger of art practice with animal sciences. I engage this through an autobiographical perspective which allows diverse viewers to empathize with my imagery, necessary to bring about social change. By displaying my creative work, I create an accessible starting point for audience engagement and community wellbeing. I have implemented innovative methods to gather and analyze feedback provided on audience response cards to assess the broader impacts of my work. By interacting with audiences, providing workshops, and collecting audience data, I am able to gain feedback necessary to inform my practice, engage with the community, and bring about social change. I am excited to provide a Poster Session, which lends itself to a visual display, and engage in informal discussions with interested delegates.
Cultural Sustainability and Archetype in Creative Textile Design
Virtual Poster Marlena Pop, Dorina Horatau
Textile arts are some of the oldest cultural technologies of humanity, found in both the public and private space of life. Artistic and cultural imaginary, predominantly feminine, has found an ideal place of expression as the social and cultural praxis tradition has a millenary individuality and continuity. The poetics and narrative of textile arts have developed alongside technologies, over time however, they have lost their cultural value in the favor of practical use, in which their fibrous structure and network-like system were exploited. The context of the fourth technological revolution, dominated by the digital society, the internet of object, 3D Printing, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and emerging technologies, is also becoming a challenge for the cultural and artistic dimension of the world of objects which, in its turn, involves other types if systemic relationships. Emotional design and arts-science have become increasingly attractive research directions in several interdisciplinary art programs based on the numerous novelties of science and technology, as well as on researching metaphor or visual semiotics. The paper presents artistic experiments in the creative textile design of a group of master students in textile arts.
The Phenomenon of Ekphrasis and Incursion in the History of Art
Virtual Poster Marina Castilla Ortega
Being the genre of the description (or the aesthetic reflection) the essential raw material of the historical-artistic reflection, with the present article it is tried to define and to value the contribution for the History of the Art of the literary figure of the ekphrasis (" written description of visible objects") and its position in today's society, gathering different theories about the reconciliation between image-text. For this, the methodology of this study resides in a critical review of studies by leading experts in the field, such as W.J.T. Mitchell (1942) and Román de la Calle (1942). The ekphrasis had its starting point in the most remote origins of humanity, developing its foundations in the classical disciplines of Rhetoric, Sophistry and Poetics, which are the foundations of the Theory and Criticism of Art. But the ekphrasis phenomenon will reach its climax and greater complexity in Postmodernity or "Society of the Image", where the domain of the image is extended to any area of life, against tradition, based on the text read or written (event called "pictorial turn" by W.J.T. Mitchell). Precisely, due to the proliferation and ambiguity of the visual in today's society, the ekphrasis is put into question with numerous hypotheses faced around it, both in favor of the relationship between text and image and against its conciliation.
Children in the Streets: Southeast Asia, 2019
Virtual Poster Ching Horng
The photo essay contains eight photos I took on my trip to the Philippines in early April, 2019. I took hundreds of photos on this trip as a street photographer to get an authentic feel of the local scene. When I examined the final 12-photo set after the culling process, I suddenly realized that eight of the 12 photos are about either street children (3), children at work (1), children at play near or in a slump (2) or children in general (2). I didn’t start out with an agenda to do a theme on street children; the fact that I ended up with this theme says as much about my personal aesthetics in street photography as about the condition of the children in the local society. I’m visiting Indonesia in early May and will focus on this street-children theme for a comparison with the Philippines. Regardless of the final number of photos in the final set, I’ll write a few concise sentences for each photo. The purpose is more to show, then tell. Pictures of street children are no news. However, the issue glares at you as an affluent tourist from an affluent society. Particularly in the age of selfie and Instagram, art has the opportunity and responsibility to do something about it and change it.
Women’s Experiences Healing and Thriving through a Community Arts Group
Poster Exhibit/Session Suneel Agerwala, md, Sriya Bhattacharyya
Low-income women face a multitude of stressors, but traditional psychotherapy does not always meet their needs (Goodman et.al, 2010). Healing art processes can be a viable therapeutic alternative, as a vehicle for both healing and community building. Community-based therapeutic art groups can produce social change by providing opportunities for marginalized communities to name and understand their realities, identify their needs and strengths, and transform their lives in ways that contribute to individual and collective well-being and justice (Willis & Rauch, 2014). This poster reviews data collected from The Women Healing and Thriving Community Arts Group program. The program was a pilot ten-session healing arts group for women from low-income backgrounds in Boston focused on self-exploration and empowerment. The program offered a facilitated opportunity for low-income women to explore a variety of artistic media, share their challenges and life stories in a safe, caring environment, and engage in both individual and collaborative art processes. The study detailed in the proposed poster examined experiences of nine women in the healing arts group across multiple sessions. Data included participatory observations, interviews, and focus groups. Qualitative inductive thematic data analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) revealed four overarching domains: 1) psychological realities and challenges faced by the women prior to and during the group; 2) healing processes that took place within the group; 3) self-identified internal processes and shifts that took place within the women; and 4) participant’s takeaways and personal revelations. Finally, implications and future directions for group-based healing arts will be discussed.
STARS Experiential Group Intervention: A Complex Trauma Treatment for Survivors of Human Trafficking
Poster Exhibit/Session Sriya Bhattacharyya, Suneel Agerwala, md
Despite the fact that many survivors of human trafficking have experienced complex trauma, there are no established interventions designed to specifically address these impacts. Leaders in the field of complex trauma have advocated for the need for somatic approaches to intervention. This poster will present STARS Experiential Group treatment, the first structured body-based group intervention that has been designed to address complex trauma in survivors of human trafficking. Three pilot groups were run in residential settings with adolescent and adult survivors of sex trafficking. Two adaptations were utilized, with one focusing on the application of expressive arts modalities and the other incorporating theater games. Qualitative results, using thematic analysis, identified several themes related to challenges and potential benefits of these groups. Potential benefits of the STARS groups were found in the areas of Interpersonal Relationships, Regulation, and Self/ Identity, with fourteen sub-themes further describing positive impacts. Challenges within these areas are explored, to inform the development of group interventions for trafficking survivors. The results of this study suggest that experiential, somatically-oriented group treatment shows promise as an important element of holistic intervention with trafficking survivors.
