The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Socially Engaged Art (BFA-SEA) supports artists to create new work that engages with communities. Faculty and students from the performing arts, visual arts, craft practices, and narrative media come together to develop collaborative projects around real issues. Students are encouraged to experiment with a range of mediums. They are… Continue reading Socially Engaged Art Bachelors BFA – Program Introduction
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Learning to Decolonize
The current discussion about the future of democracy in the United States is, beneath its surface, also a conversation about the preservation of a settler-colonial project. It is about assuring settler futurity. Colonization is fundamentally achieved through the material theft of land and labor and the elimination and exploitation of people and culture. Educational institutions… Continue reading Learning to Decolonize
What Takes Root: Socially Engaged Art
August 9, 2019 The last time I sat at this table, it was a place where things got stuck: an expanse of oak in a stuffy room where we sat across from a president that sheepishly told us no action was possible, the recommendations of the diversity workgroup were unrealistic, of course he agreed in… Continue reading What Takes Root: Socially Engaged Art
WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?
July 5, 2019 Creative practice for collective liberation This is the beginning of a conversation about how art could be something different altogether. The Situation: These are times of rising fascism, ecological destruction, spiraling inequity, and a culture of collapse. We need art, because the systems of conquest and oppression are so pervasive that the act of… Continue reading WHY SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART?