Voices of Visit Series 2024
Supporting Artist Educators and Learners with Disabilities
March 26, 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Maryland Institute College of Art
Fred Lazarus IV Graduate Research Center
131 West North Avenue
21201 Baltimore, Maryland
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 Visiting Voices Series event “Arts and Disability” hosted by the Hurwitz Center. Five disability justice artists and educators working in K-12 schools, communities, and museums will participate in an interactive conversation moderated by Dr. Pamela Harris-Lawton, Florence Gaskins Harper Arts Education Endowment Chair. Explore issues, support strategies, and resources for art educators and learners. He is also a thought leader for MICA's Hurwitz Center.
Visiting Voices aims to bring together artist-educators who are from or have expertise in working with marginalized communities. This year's topic focuses on artists and learners with disabilities and aims to provide language and resources to support artist educators teaching learners with disabilities in arts settings. Hear from expert artist/educators with disabilities or experience in teaching about how to work with learners with disabilities in the art classroom space, allowing attendees to ask questions and be more effective. Create a supportive environment where you can find resources to become a better teacher and advocate. Art learners with disabilities.
register here For this online event.
The panelists for this program are:
rebecca alberts (she/her) Director of Advanced School Visual Arts at Lab School in Washington, a premier K-12 school for students with language-based learning differences. The school's premise is both to teach academics through art and to focus students on the importance of studio courses. Inspired by her students and various theorists, Rebecca has researched, written, and published extensively on how the arts interrelate with the educational process.
Dr. Kelly M. Gross (she/her) is an assistant professor of art and design education at Northern Illinois University. She has published her research on art education and publication in book chapters and research journals. Kelly is currently working on several research projects focused on the intersection of arts education, special education, and disability studies.
Michelle Renee Hoppe (she/they) teach special education in New York City, and their work resulted in a successful lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education. She is a New York City Teaching Fellow in Special Education and studied education at the City University of New York. Michelle guest lectures on disability justice and harm reduction issues and lives with multiple neurobifurcations and chronic illnesses.
Dr. Mira Kallio Tabin (she/her) is a Distinguished Professor at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on critical arts and arts-based research in issues of disability studies, decolonialism, immigration, non-human subjectivity, and critical animal studies. She is Associate Editor of Research in Arts Education and Founder of the International Disability Studies, Arts, and Education (iDSAE) Network.
jennifer white johnson (she/her) is a disabled, neurodivergent Afro-Latinx art activist, and design educator whose visual work aims to uplift stories of disability justice in design. Masu. As an artist and educator with Graves' disease and her ADHD, Jen uses her art – photography, zines, and collages – to explore the intersection of content and caregiving, with an emphasis on redesigning a disability-first visual culture. I am.
Dr. Pamela Harris Lawton (she/her), panel facilitator.
About MICA
Nationally recognized as a leader in art and design education, Maryland Institute College of Art seamlessly combines innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative citizenship with contemporary approaches to art, design, and media. We are intentionally cultivating a new generation of artists who can be integrated into.
MICA is redefining the role of artists and designers as creative, solution-oriented makers and thinkers who drive social, cultural and economic progress for our future. MICA is the nation's oldest continuously degree-granting college of art and design, located in Baltimore and deeply connected to the community. The company is a major contributor to the region's creative economy and a top producer of nationally and internationally recognized professional artists and designers.
