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gloria j. wilson

Associate Professor

Art Bldg, Room 132
520-621-7570

University of Georgia

gloria j. wilson is Founding Co-Director of Racial Justice Studio and Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona. Before returning to complete her PhD at the University of Georgia, gloria taught visual art in secondary environments for 13 years. Her research is situated within Critical Pedagogies, Cultural Studies, Black Studies, Visual Studies and Transnational Femninisms. An artist, public scholar and qualitative/arts-based methodologist, she has presented her research nationally and internationally highlighting the intersections of racial identity and arts participation. Her work analyzes the cultural systems which work to produce race and racism, in general, and more specifically, examines constructions of racial representations across creative modalities and how these practices and processes work to reinscribe or refuse hegemonic systems. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright award to study art, education and culture in Tokyo and Ogi Saga, Japan and has presented workshops exploring creative thinking dispositions for Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero. gloria has also been an invited artist/speaker for Spelman College’s Museum of Art BLACK BOX series. Her work/research, “Construction of the Blackademic,” has been exhibited at the McDonough Museum of Art, in Youngstown, Ohio, the WBJ Gallery at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, Florida and the University of Arizona Museum of Art, in Tucson, Arizona. 

She facilitates recurring race-conscious arts-based workshops for in-sevice art teachers and the broader public at various art museums in North America. 

Her current research, art-making, and pedagogical practices are grounded in critical arts-based inquiry and methodologies and include a forthcoming art installation dedicated to honoring the lives of the descendants of Clotilda survivors in Africatown, Mobile AL.

 

WEBSITE: gloria j. wilson

Selected publications:

A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back (Forthcoming Anthology, 2022, UA Press)

Conjuring Hands: The Art of Curious Women of Color

Construction of the Blackademic: An arts-based tale in and through Academia

Curriculum and Mixed Race Identity

Complicating Thought/T.H.OT. Leaders through Critical Arts-Based Research

Expanded Arts-Based Pedagogy

Liberation Kitchen: Black Women in Art and Education

 

 

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From Arizona Arts: Willa Alschwede of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, gives an overview of “Our Stories: High School Artists." Ends this Saturday.

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Check out the Groundworks Auction, which includes work from student Mireya Quiroz! The auction runs through tomorrow (Saturday). Go to tinyurl.com/3bwheuwp to bid.

From Groundworks:
The Groundworks Auction is 🗣 LIVE 🗣 The items up for auction will be up until August 6th! Groundworks is hoping to raise $10,000 to keep supporting the local arts community in Tucson! This years auction items put together by local businesses, musicians, and artists are to help support your favorite local DIY Venue!

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Check out the Groundworks Auction, which includes work from student Mireya Quiroz! The auction runs through tomorrow (Saturday). Go to https://tinyurl.com/3bwheuwp to bid.

From Groundworks:
The Groundworks Auction is 🗣 LIVE 🗣 The items up for auction will be up until August 6th! Groundworks is hoping to raise $10,000 to keep supporting the local arts community in Tucson! This years auction items put together by local businesses, musicians, and artists are to help support your favorite local DIY Venue!

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🏕 @ajjjtheband
🏕 @tinytownsurplus / @tanline printing
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Kudos to Jessica Gonzales (BFA ’12, 2D Art), who just finished up two murals for the newly remodeled Cactus Grill at the Student Union. www.facebook.com/JessicaGonzalesArt Arizona Arts The University of Arizona ... See MoreSee Less

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Prof. Nicole Antebi's Illustration II students collaborated with the Florence Immigration Project in the spring. The group's recent newsletter and annual report featured Robin Silverman's and Gabriel Spencer's artwork that accompanied a story about an Albanian teen named Luan, who was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border and coped with his sorrow by playing chess with himself on a makeshift board (tinyurl.com/4zm75p9c). Students contributed other projects being rolled out on social media. "I'm very proud of this group and how sensitively they approached the subject matter," Prof. Antebi said. Arizona Arts The University of Arizona ... See MoreSee Less

Prof. Nicole Antebis Illustration II students collaborated with the Florence Immigration Project in the spring. The groups recent newsletter and annual report featured Robin Silvermans and Gabriel Spencers artwork that accompanied a story about an Albanian teen named Luan, who was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border and coped with his sorrow by playing chess with himself on a makeshift board (https://tinyurl.com/4zm75p9c). Students contributed other projects being rolled out on social media. Im very proud of this group and how sensitively they approached the subject matter, Prof. Antebi said. Arizona Arts The University of ArizonaImage attachment
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Congrats to graduate student Emily Kray, who has been awarded the 2022 Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize! Read the story at tinyurl.com/KrayCen. The award will help her expand her project, “N is for Nightmare,” into an edition of 66 three-volume large accordion books and three art installations to serve as mental health spaces within the University of Arizona and community. Arizona Arts University of Arizona Poetry Center The University of Arizona Groundworks Tucson ... See MoreSee Less

Congrats to graduate student Emily Kray, who has been awarded the 2022 Marcia Grand Centennial Sculpture Prize! Read the story at https://tinyurl.com/KrayCen. The award will help her expand her project, “N is for Nightmare,” into an edition of 66 three-volume large accordion books and three art installations to serve as mental health spaces within the University of Arizona and community. Arizona Arts University of Arizona Poetry Center The University of Arizona Groundworks Tucson
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