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Wide Awakes Wisconsin!

Have you heard about @wideawakeswi? They are building a coalition of artists in Wisconsin to help make sure everyone knows how and takes advantage of early voting! Join their call to action on October 3!

Wide Awakes 2020 is an artist founded initiative that is national in scope and is building a coalition of civically-minded artists all across the country! The historic Wide Awakes were a pro-emancipation, pro-women’s suffrage, pro-immigration, youth-led organization that championed Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential election. They coordinated voter registration drives and engaged new and young voters to participate in democracy. In 2020 a group of artists around the country are carrying on this action. As an offshoot of the For Freedoms project the Wide Awakes aspire to center the arts in political and civic discourse, interjecting joy, play, and imagination into our social, political, and cultural scene. 

Mindful of the constraints of time and of the pandemic the organizers are planning a nimble day of action to celebrate the start of early voting in Wisconsin, Tuesday, October 20. They envision distributed celebrations around the state. Whether you are already engaged in voter organizing and would like to partner and promote your action under #wideawakes2020 #wideawakeswi on that day or if you are an artist interested in participating in any of the civic celebrations Wide Awakes is planning, they would love to hear from you and work with you. 

Below is more information about Wide Awakes Wisconsin and an invitation to join a Zoom call to action this Saturday, October 3 on the 160th anniversary of the 1860 Wide Awakes March in the name of Emancipation.  

Please pass this call on to anyone you think would be interested.

Join Wide Awakes On OCTOBER 3 at 10 am for a Wide Awake WI call to action!

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://saic-edu.zoom.us/j/5517379530?pwd=Q1dWZ1h5NHovSkJ1TGFaK09YZmFWQT09

Meeting ID: 551 737 9530

Passcode: 160002

Wide Awakes Links:

Wide Awakes Website

Wide Awakes on Instagram

Wide Awakes Wisconsin on Instagram

For Freedoms Website

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Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series (FA2020)

Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series

As a part of the ART 285: Art in a Democratic Society course at St. Norbert College, I am hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding.

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, September 8th – Center for Creative Citizenship – The Maryland Institute College of Art’s Center for Creative Citizenship integrates civic learning and action, as well as democratic engagement, by engaging art and design students in projects relating to civic engagement, voter education, and get out the vote efforts, as well as supporting the development of partnerships, programs, and initiatives that advance the interests of Baltimore’s communities and neighborhoods.

Lecture Link: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/514358671/b4912c80bc

Tuesday, September 29th – Amanda Lovelee – Amanda Lovelee is a visual artist based in Minnesota. Lovelee has focused on civic engagement through a variety of projects. She worked as a “City Artist” through the Public Art St. Paul program developing projects that made city planning more accessible to city residents. 

Lecture Link: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/514361162/91a59fe856

Tuesday, November 10th – Girl Child Art Foundation – The Girl Child Art Foundation is an organization based in Lagos Nigeria that focuses on advocacy, empowerment, and civic engagement of girls through the arts.

Lecture Link: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/514364398/8d578e3457

Tuesday, November 17th – Laurie Jo Reynolds – Laurie Jo Reynolds is an artist, policy advocate, and researcher who developed the concept of “Legislative Art”, an art practice that seeks to intervene in government systems with the goal of concrete political change.

This lecture was not recorded.

Thank you to Neale Tracy for the poster!

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Domains Workshops for Art Majors

Two Domains workshops for art students are this week and next. If you are a Sophomore or Junior art major and do not already have a website, you are strongly encouraged to attend one of these sessions.

First-year students are also welcome to attend and create a domain.

Workshop dates and location:

Wednesday, November 28, 3 -4 p.m., BAC 100 (critique studio)

Thursday, December 6, 2-3 p.m., BAC 100 (critique studio)

Bring three domain name options with you to the workshop–your top choice and two back up names. The name you choose will be the url for your website. Check out this blog post to help you with choosing a domain name: https://blog.knight.domains/gs/whats-in-a-name/

 

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New Opportunities: Student Studio and Wayzgoose

Apply now to the Student Studio at St. Norbert College

Applications are due Friday, September 21st  by 5 pm.

The Student Studio at St. Norbert College is a work-space for serious practicing art and design students to complete more ambitious and significant work. Students apply to work in the studio by proposing an independent project. Accepted students will have key access to the studio and be able to store work and tools in the studio for the fall semester.  Student Studio residents are expected to work independently and to show their work-in-progress to faculty at a meeting November 29th at 3:30 PM. Those who have not made sufficient progress with their work will not be asked back for the spring semester.

Studio residents are expected to exhibit or otherwise present their work from the studio in the spring and are responsible for arranging these details. Graduating students can show their work in the Senior Art Exhibition.

How to apply to the Student Studio:

Please submit a folder with the following to the folder on the google drive here: goo.gl/rRwiFJ

  1. A document with the following information:

  • Your name, your year at SNC, and your major
  • The title/name of the proposed project and a brief outline of what you hope to accomplish each semester in the studio
  • A tentative timeline including what you hope to have done by the winter Studio Visit with faculty
  • A short statement outlining other time commitments you have this semester and what time of day/days of the week you think you’ll do most of your work (this is an estimate)
  • A tentative plan for where you will show your finished work in the Spring

2. Three (3) digital images of recent art or design work and/or images related to the proposed work

(please place this separately in a folder, don’t embed them in the document)

A sample application is available in the Google Drive folder. Please contact Professor Ries with questions: katie.ries@snc.edu

Apply to attend Wayzgoose at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum! 

Wayzgoose is a great national conference that just happens to take place not too far from us in Two Rivers, WI (November 2-4, 2018). The Art Discipline will pay the conference registration fee for two motivated SNC art students. To apply: send a thoughtful paragraph explaining why you think attending Wayzgoose would be a meaningful experience and how you might share your experience with your fellow students?

Applications due by October 12th to either brian.pirman@snc.edu or katie.ries@snc.edu. Chosen students who choose to stay in Two Rivers for the duration of the conference will need to arrange their own travel and accommodations.

Hamilton offers their own student scholarship to Wayzgoose. Although you can only receive one or the other, we encourage interested students to apply to both. Information on that scholarship is here: https://woodtype.org/pages/wayzgoose_scholarships

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State of the Union Meeting

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