Outreach Activities
The School of Art has developed an exciting array of outreach activities to fulfill and expand the School’s mission through interactions with visiting artists and scholars, internship programs, exhibition of student and faculty work, social events, and many other endeavors that involve the greater Tucson community.
Programs include:
VISITING ARTISTS, SCHOLARS AND EXHIBITIONS SERIES
The School of Art focuses on bringing diverse artists and scholars from around the world to our campus. These artists and scholars bring their own unique influences to the program by engaging with community members, students, and faculty through salons, lectures, and exhibitions. Students and faculty may also participate in discussion groups, workshops, and residency projects.
Get current information online at: http://www.cfa.arizona.edu/vase/
ART EDUCATION INTERNSHIPS
In order to provide service to community institutions and real-world experience for our pre-service art teachers and museum educators, internships are arranged with businesses and institutions in the community that are part of the art education field.
Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu
ART EDUCATORS IN SCHOOLS
Local schools and experienced art teachers work together with the School of Art to enrich the classroom setting and give our pre-service art teachers real-world experience. Students arrange sample lessons and participate in classroom observation.
Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu
GRAPHIC DESIGN WORKSHOP
The senior graphic design class can create excellent design solutions for various non-profit organizations, programs, and small businesses within the university and local community. The benefits are two-fold. The first gives the students the opportunity to work with clients in a classroom situation. The second offers the client quality design at a lower cost. The experience for clients working with engaged students is a rewarding experience as well. Often students can present ideas that are excellent and unexpected. The businesses selected must work with the class curriculum, be a fledgling business and/or a university-associated program, or not-for-profit organization that enhances the community. The business will make a donation to The University of Arizona Foundation Graphic Design Workshop fund. These funds are used to pay for lecture fees and exhibitions, benefiting all of the Illustration + Design students. If you like working with enthusiastic young professionals, this is a great opportunity for your organization.
Contact: Professor Jackson Boelts
(520) 621-1893 or (520) 544-3643
Email: jboelts@email.arizona.edu
WILDCAT ART
Saturday morning instruction sessions provide art education for gifted youngsters and experience for our art education teachers in training. Classes are taught for students K-12 and augment what is available in local schools. Students’ work is exhibited professionally in a closing reception for students and their families. The program is funded by fees from participating students and the division of Art and Visual Culture Education.
Contact: Associate Professor Ryan Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu
For more information visit Wildcat Art’s website.
Art, Design and environment
For over 20 years, in her studio/seminar Critical Issues in Design, Professor Ellen McMahon has led her students in putting their creative problem solving and visual communication skills to work by initiating pro bono design projects for organizations that are doing important work in the world. Working with groups such as Humane Borders, Oasis Center for Sexual Assault, Arizona Animal Rescue, Literacy Volunteers, and the Hopi Nation, students have come to understand their influence and responsibilities as artists and visual communicators. More recently, the class was re-named Art, Design and Environment attracting students from across disciplines to undertake a number of multi-year art/environment collaborations including: a tile mural with the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, joining their social justice and environmental conservation initiatives, and an educational pavilion at Tucson Village Farm, featuring large panels about the ecological role and value of Honey Bees.
Contact: Professor Ellen McMahon
(520) 621-1493
TOURS OF THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
Tours to the CCP provide an introduction to the appreciation of photography for children. The project is an ongoing collaboration between the Center for Creative Photography and the Art and Visual Culture Education program. Pre-service art teachers and museum educators serve as the docents for groups of students who come to the Center to see selected exhibitions of photography.
Contact: Associate Professor Shin
(520) 621-1253
shin@email.arizona.edu
LETTERPRESS AND BOOK ART LAB
The development of the Letterpress and Book Art Lab in the Corleone Building has extended outreach efforts to build campus and community partnerships: Poetry Center collaborations, Paperworks, College Book Art Association, demonstrations, lectures, etc.
Contact: Professor Karen Zimmermann
(520) 621-7003
kzim@email.arizona.edu
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