Seminars: 2007

Related Seminars and Public Engagement: 2007

Artist in Residence
Te Tumu School of Maori Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin NEW ZEALAND

Mary Modeen, Senior research fellow and artist in residence; public lectures, research seminar and guest lecture at School of Fine Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin.

Artist in Residence
Camp Street Art Faculty, University of Ballarat; Ballarat Art Gallery, Victoria AUSTRALIA

Mary Modeen, Senior Research Fellow and Artist in Residence; public lectures, exhibition talks, research seminar and guest lectures.

Research interviews and public feedback sessions
City Watch Tower, Melbourne AUSTRALIA

Talya Chalef, Coordinator. As part of the project, In Other Words, open discussion forums were hosted to allow people from diverse communities to reflect upon and contribute to the project.

‘Art and Social Engagement’. Undergraduate and graduate art seminar.
Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Christine Baeumler, Instructor; coordinated with students from Kristine Miller’s graduate seminar in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Included collaborative instruction with: Sonja Kuftinec, Department Theatre Arts and Dance, and Karen Till, Department of Geography (see below). Students partnered with the East Side Youth Conservation Corps (a program of the Community Design Center, St. Paul) to create the: East Side Rain Garden, two large swale rain garden and ceramic tile walking path. Funds were provided by the Office of Public Engagement, University of Minnesota and the Capitol Region Watershed District.
Video of project available at:
Watch the YouTube videos.

‘Im/Material Geographies’. Interdisciplinary graduate seminar.
Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.

Karen Till, Instructor.
Included collaborative instruction with and workshops with undergraduate and graduate students in: Christine Baeumler, Department of Art, Kristine Miller, Department of Landscape Architecture (instructors for the Art and Social Engagement collaborative), and Sonja Kuftinec, Departments Theatre Arts and Dance. Guest lectures included speakers from the Department of Art Visiting Artists Series, including Matthew Coolidge (Centre for Land Use Interpretation) and Suzanne Lacy. Students also interacted with visiting artists and scholars from the Space&Place international Symposium ‘Heritage Sites/Political Spaces: Rethinking Belonging’ guests, including: Talya Chalef (independent South African-Australian artist); Ciraj Rassool (African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies Director, University of the Western Cape, South Africa); and Huhana Smith (head curator, Māori at Te Papa Museum, New Zealand and independent artist). In addition to final projects, shorter place-based, transdisciplinary and collaborative methodology projects contributed to a student-community-based public performance event, ‘Dana Hall’.

Art and Social Engagement, Christine Baeumler, 2007