CALL FOR K-12 STUDENT ART
Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education
Eastern Michigan University
College of Education
March 19-21, 2015
Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education
Eastern Michigan University
College of Education
March 19-21, 2015
Join us for the Fourth Annual EcoJustice and Activism conference and workshops March 19-21, 2015 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI. We invite you to send us a proposal for exhibiting your students’ artwork at this year’s conference. We are interested in exhibiting pieces that engage the themes of the conference. This year’s theme Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education aims to explore the ways the arts can focus public attention and responsibilities toward developing eco-ethical consciousness and action that challenges devastating social and ecological degradation occurring both locally and globally.
Click here for the proposal form. Proposal must include the following: a) a full description of the particular modality of art to be exhibited and its connection to activism and EcoJustice (ie paintings, photographs, drawings, sculpture, screen prints, etc ), b) the size and number of the pieces to be exhibited, c) photos of sample work if possible.
EcoJustice Education is an approach that analyzes the deep cultural roots of intersecting social and ecological crises, focusing especially on the globalizing cultural, economic and political forces of Western consumer culture. EcoJustice scholars and educators also study, support, and teach about the ways that various cultures around the world actively resist these colonizing forces by protecting and revitalizing their commons—that is, the social practices and traditions, languages, and relationships with the land necessary to the healthy regeneration of their communities. By emphasizing the commons (and its enclosure or privatization), EcoJustice perspectives understand social justice to be inseparable from and even imbedded in questions regarding ecological well-being.
This conference, now in its 4th year, was organized to engage activists, educators, students, and scholars in deep and meaningful discussion around what we can do together to address and organize actions aimed at alleviating and/or eliminating current social and environmental injustices occurring in our local, national, and international communities.
Questions? Contact Co-Chairs, Rebecca Martusewicz, rmartuse[email protected], or Monica Shields Grimason [email protected]
Proposals are due January 15, 2015 to Rebecca Martusewicz, [email protected]