Art Education Lecture Series – Spring 2008

The Department of Art and Art History and the Division of Art Education/Visual Art Studies is pleased to announce a special guest lecture featuring Professors Dipti Desai from New York University and Laurie E. Hicks of the University of Maine. Their lectures will be focused on the theme of "Art Education in a Global Society. "

Monday, February 4, 2008

5:00-7:00 PM
DFA 2.204

Map to Doty Fine Arts Building (DFA)

Dipti Desai

New York University

Picturing a Culture of Invisibility: Mass Incarceration, Immigration, and Education

Dipti Desai is an Associate Professor and Director of the Art Education Program. Prior to coming to NYU, she taught art education at SUNY-New Paltz and was the Co-Director of the controversial 1997 National Arts Now Conference: "Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body." Her teaching career involves two years in New Zealand, where she taught courses in Education at Victoria University in Wellington and extensive experience teaching students from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds at the elementary and middle school level in the United States, India, and New Zealand. As a scholar, educator and artist she is committed to addressing the formative role of visual representation and its politics in order to affect social change. Her research examines the ways visual representations construct meaning about culture in various pedagogical sites. She has published several articles in art education journals on the politics of multicultural art education and more recently on critical pedagogy in art education. Her current research involves examiningthe articulation between immigration and incarceration through contemporary art practices as pedagogical sites.

Laurie E. Hicks

University of Maine

Through the Viewfinder: Snapshots of Tourist Snapshots

Professor Laurie E. Hicks is a Professor of Art in the Department of Art at the University of Maine and Interim Director of the University of Maine, Museum of Art. She was founding editor of the journal, Gender Issues in Art and Education. Her research and publications focus on issues pertaining to feminism, cultural theory and environmental responsibility. Her most recent publications have explored the concept of play and its contribution to our understanding of a socially responsible art education; contemporary body modification as a process of liberation; and the relationship of visual and material culture to our memory of place. Professor Hicks’ recent artistic work, "Icelandic Particulars" links her scholarly interest in our memory of place with photographic representations of experiences of place. Her current research and artistic work focuses on the cultural role of tourist images and artifacts, and explores the process, content, mnemonic and narrative nature of tourist snapshots.

Visiting speakers with a variety of interests are invited to present their research each year to the Visual Art Studies/Art Education Division and have included:

• Olivia Gude and Kenneth Krafchek (2007)
• Vesta Daniel and Doug Blandy (2006)
• Kristin Congdon and Lois Langford (2005)
• Paul Bolin, Frances Thurber, Terry Barrett, and Mary Wyrick (2004)
• Graeme Sullivan (2003)
• Peter Smith and Candace Stout (2002)
• F. Graeme Chalmers (2001)
• Paul Duncan (2000)
• Tom Anderson and Doug Blandy (1999)
• Elizabeth Garber and Willis "Bing" Davis (1998)
• Richard Tarnas (1997)
• Harold Cohen, Tim Binkly, and Daniel Nathan (1996)
• Paul Bolin (1995)
• Elliot Eisner, Jerome Hausman, Mary Ann Stankiewicz, and Brent Wilson (1991)
• Philip Yenowine, Terry Barrett, and Brent Wilson (1986)