Artist, author, educator, and activist Judy Chicago has one more milestone to add to her celebratory year as she turned 75 this year. Penn State’s University Libraries, which acquired her art education archives in 2011, are pleased to announce the creation of the Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal (judychicago.arted.psu.edu/dialogue/) as a new facet of the artist’s online art education archive (judychicago.arted.psu.edu/) in The Eberly Family Special Collections Library. The Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal was born from Penn State’s 2014 campus-wide, semester-long celebration of Chicago’s archive that concluded with a weekend-long symposium at which Chicago delivered a timely, call-to-action lecture (judychicago.arted.psu.edu/invitation-from-judy-chicago/) based on her new book “Institutional Time: A Critique of Studio Art Education.” “My goal was to spark a long-overdue dialogue about the state of studio art education,” says Chicago who developed the first feminist art program at California State University, Fresno in the 1970s. “With the creation of the portal, we can now initiate an international online conversation about the current state of studio art education, particularly in relation to issues of content, gender, and diversity. I believe that art education has to be radically improved in order to meet the needs of all students and that Penn State can be a leader in effectuating this change.” The Judy Chicago Dialogue Portal will launch on September 15, beginning with the first of four sections, “An Invitation from Judy Chicago,” which will feature the video of Chicago’s Penn State lecture and questions Chicago poses about studio art education. Hope you will respond. An online dialogue “Live with Judy Chicago” about the state of studio art education and its future will be hosted on the portal on October 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and registration will open on the portal on September 15. More information is available at judychicago.arted.psu.edu/dialogue/ or contact Leslie Sotomayor at [email protected].
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:05:48 +0000