Related Seminars and Public Engagement: 2010

2010 – 2011

Environmental Artist in Residence
Capitol Region and Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District, St. Paul, Minnesota USA.

• Christine Baeumler, artist-in-residence, through Saint Paul Public Art Program.

Fall semester (September – December) 2010

‘Our Lives in Image and Text’. Freshman seminar.
Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN USA

• Joyce Lyon, Instructor.
  Projects included creating a ‘map of the world at age X’; an accordion book investigating relationships of time and space; presentations by Riley Sharbanno and Luke Leonard, participants in Monica Haller’s The Veterans’ Book Project; and an individually formulated final project.

Fall semester (September – December) 2010

‘Art and Public Engagement’. Masters of urban planning workshop-based seminar; tied to MST II.
Urban Affairs and Planning, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech University, students from Blacksburg and Alexandria campuses USA

• Karen Till, Instructor.
  Student interaction and special classes with international visiting artists from the ‘Mapping Spectral Traces’ week-long symposium (lectures, classes, workshops, poster sessions, and exhibitions). Student-papers focused on one particular artist and a context- or place-specific project that included interviews and additional research.

Art and Public Engagement, VT M.A. Planning Students,
interacting with MST II guests and visiting artists