School of Art and Design Visiting Artists and Scholars
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
5-6 pm
Ohio Earthworks and World Heritage: Cultures, Sites, Tourism and the Arts
Dr. Christine Ballangee Morris, Professor, Art Educator, and Director of American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University
Dr. Ballengee Morris is a Professor in the Arts Administration, Education, and Policy Department and Director of the American Indian Studies for The Ohio State University. In 2007, she co-authored, Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching art in high school; in 2012, Stand(ing) Up for Change; in 2015 Visual culture, representations, and misrepresentations; and her newer book, co-authored with Kryssi Staikidis (2017), Transforming Our Practices: Indigenous Art, Pedagogies, and Philosophies.
Several thousand years ago, building earthworks was a central feature of the public architecture of many Indigenous cultures in the world.
“The people who built these mounds were brilliant. Their genius lies in combining complexity and simplicity simultaneously. Their mathematical and astronomical complexities challenge our mental capacity while simultaneously their simplistic structures evoke a calming, soothing, and in some instances a spiritual effect. These people have for the most part been overlooked, unrecognized, and unappreciated. Today we have an opportunity to change that and it is our responsibility to do so."
- Chief Glenna Wallace, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
The earthworks are on the Tentative List for consideration as World Heritage sites (World Heritage Convention 2018). The process of writing the dossier, gaining community support, building economic development strategies that include the arts and American Indian tribes will be explored in this presentation.
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Elizabeth Allen Visiting Lectures in Art History
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
2-3 pm
Typography, Memory, and Heritage
A Brazilian Perspective
Priscila Farias, Ph.D., Professor and Coordinator of the Visual Design Research Lab, School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Typography and lettering are important elements in the configuration of public and private environments and documents, influencing the way we interact with all kinds of information, with each other, and with other designed artifacts. In this presentation Dr. Farias argues for the relevance of typography to design heritage and graphic memory studies, including examples of her research on Brazilian print culture and public lettering.
Sponsored by the Art History Division of the School of Art and Design. Free and open to the public. Contact: crhoton@niu.edu
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