“Art as Intervention: Towards Livable Tomorrows” Lisa Fay (she, her, hers), MFA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• This round table will begin with a slide show that offers a survey of community-based art works and practices that have recently emerged. Guiding this slideshow will be a narrative making explicit the social context in which these art works and practices have emerged, creating new cultural landscapes. We will talk about and draw attention to the ways in which the artist, as cultural worker, is responsive to the social moment, not unlike the social worker.
• We will briefly offer some deeper insight into best practices of community- based artists and off insight into the arts as social practice.
• The round table will than shift into a discussion. This discussion begins with simply asking, what can art do? Among other questions we will ask, what roles might artists as cultural workers play in these most trying of times and how might they inform, intersect and re-energize the work of counselors and social workers and vice versa.

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Meeting ID: 942 3247 9897
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