uodsp: FW: FREE VSA Webinar on 9/22 - Drawing on Disability: Comics Including Difference

Mon Sep 21 11:55:01 PDT 2015

Happy to forward . . . 

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From: Julie L Voelker-Morris [mailto:jvoelker at uoregon.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 3:31 PM
To: Heidi von Ravensberg
Subject: Fwd: FREE VSA Webinar on 9/22 - Drawing on Disability: Comics Including Difference

Hi Heidi,

This event might be a great add to the Disability Studies list.

Best,
Julie

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Subject: FREE VSA Webinar on 9/22 - Drawing on Disability: Comics 
Including Difference
Date: 2015/09/17 14:41

Drawing on Disability: Comics Including Difference

  Register NOW for this free webinar at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/200000000028513582 [7]

  DRAWING ON DISABILITY: COMICS INCLUDING DIFFERENCE

  Tue, Sep 22, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

  _** If you are unable to attend the live webinar, by registering you
will automatically receive a link to a recording following its
completion. **_

  DESCRIPTION: This free Webinar, Drawing on Disability: Comics Including
Difference, wil present teaching strategies applicable to the K-12 art
class with comics that use humor, parody, and metaphor about identity,
experience, strengths, difference, and capacities to challenge and
reclaim what disability means. The presenters will offer take-away
activities that de-center narratives of normal and foster diversity
awareness of stereotypes and clichés of disability in pop culture.

  PRESENTERS:
  • Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D., professor of art education and women's,
gender, and sexuality studies at the Pennsylvania State University, is
co-author with Michelle Kraft of Including Difference: A Communitarian
Approach to Art Education in the Least Restrictive Environment published
by the National Art Education Association in 2013. http://bit.ly/1JVDdcx
[8]

  • Michelle Kraft, Ph.D., is a professor of art education and
assistant dean at Lubbock Christian University in Texas and co-author,
alongside Karen Keifer-Boyd, of the book Including Difference: A
Communitarian Approach to Art Education in the Least Restrictive
Environment; both Michelle and Karen served on the Special Education
Committee of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, through the
John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ Office of VSA and
Accessibility.

  • Veronica Hicks, Dual PhD candidate in art education and women's,
gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State University whose research
includes indigenous metalsmithing and crafts, intersections of gender,
race, and abilities in visual culture, and using graphic memoir medium
as a sequential artform.

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presentation. To request an accommodation or receive these materials in
an alternate format, contact: Lisa Damico at lvdamico at kennedy-center.org
by September 17, 2015.

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