Public Art + Dissent: Art, Protest, and Public Spaces

Monday, November 9, 2020 - 6:00pm to Friday, November 13, 2020 - 8:30pm

Virtual

At an unprecedented moment in geopolitics, the work of public artists amplifies activism, resistance, and solidarity. Some of the world's most interesting art is on the streets and easily accessible to all. In this free mini-course for K-12 educators, sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the NCTA, we will discuss how protest art uses public space to engage in dialogue between the artist and the public. Artists from around the world question "what is" and "why" that transcends national boundaries and politics. We will examine works of Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Keith Haring, Loyalist murals from Northern Ireland, and the Black Lives movement. A teacher-led session at the end will be included.

Students and others are welcome to sign up for any session.

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Pennsylvania K-12 educators who want Act 48 must attend all three sessions; Certificates of Completion will be given to teachers in other states who complete all three sessions.

Sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the NCTA. Co-sponsored by the European Studies Center and the Center for Latin American Studies.

Schedule

Monday, November 9
6:00 - 8:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Caitlin Bruce, Department of Communications, UPitt: "Visual Noise: Street Art in Activism and Placemaking in Bogotá Colombia"

Eric Shiner, Executive Director at Pioneer Works: "Ai Weiwei:  Art Shall Liberate the World"

Wednesday, November 11
6:00 - 8:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Eric Shiner, Executive Director at Pioneer Works: "Kusama Yayoi:  Radical Performance as a Means of Self-Preservation and Social Critique"
Erin Hinson, Vice President of Research and Development at Abbey Research: "Loyalty in Dissent: Loyalist Public Murals in Pre- and Post-Ceasefire Northern Ireland"

Friday, November 13
6:00 - 8:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Jerome "Chu" Charles, Multidisciplinary Artist : "Waking Up With 'Chu'"
Michael-Ann Cerniglia, History Department Chair at Sewickley Academy: "Teacher led session on Public Art and Dissent"

Caitlin

Bruce Ph.D

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communication

Caitlin Bruce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is in the area of visual studies, affect studies, and critical theory. She is currently investigating the relationships between public art in urban spaces in transition within a transnational milieu. Largely focusing on graffiti and muralism, Bruce argues that such public art creates spaces for encounter between different publics, and between publics and central, peripheral, or marginal spaces. Her research takes her to Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Paris, Perpignan, León Guanajuato, and Mexico City. She is currently working on a manuscript on transnational public art.  Caitlin is this year’s Global Academic Partnership fellow through the Global Studies Center.

Eric

Shiner

Executive Director of Pioneer Works

Eric Shiner, Executive Director of Pioneer Works, brings with him a range of great experience to help bring Pioneer Works to the next level. From 2011-2016, he was the Director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, after serving as the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the museum beginning in 2008. He was most recently the Artistic Director at White Cube Gallery here in New York. Prior to that he served as the Senior Vice President of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's. Throughout these experiences, Eric has demonstrated his commitment to lead in ways that promote diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Erin

Hinson

Abbey Research, Vice President of Research and Development

Erin Hinson is the Vice President of Research Development at Abbey Research. She holds a PhD in Irish Studies from Queen’s University Belfast. She is published in the edited collections Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland and The Carceral Network in Ireland: History, Agency and Resistance, and in the Global Discourse Journal Special Edition – Militancy and the Working Class. Her current research interests include prison systems and reforms, issues of paramilitary demobilization and reintegration, and their intersections with art and craft work.

Jerome "Chu"

Charles

Multidisciplinary Artist

Jerome “Chu” Charles is a multidisciplinary artist who started out with whatever crafts his mother was involved in until his teens where he picking up photography, which lead to an interest in graffiti, which in practice lead to illustration and painting, which is currently servicing him in his pursuit of muraling and sign painting. As his abilities grow through practice he also hopes to learn how to use his gifts to service the world at large, using his point of view as a gay Black man in a military family in America.

Michael-Ann

Cerniglia

Sewickley Academy, History Department Chair

Michael-Ann Cerniglia is the Senior School History Department Chair at Sewickley Academy, an independent school north of Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches Grades 10-12 AP European history, AP US Government and Politics, and global studies electives. Most relevant to today's presentation, she developed and teaches a course called "Creative Resistance," which examines the convergence of art and politics.At school, she commits her time to curriculum, equity and inclusion initiatives, student clubs, and professional development opportunities that present themselves. Michael-Ann is passionate about global experiences in teaching, literature, film, technology, communication, and travel. She resides in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and two daughters.