Scheduled Spring Semester Events

• Career center - Resume and Cover Letter Basics: What are employers looking for? -  Tuesday, February 15  from 6:30-7:30 - in person  CFA 119. Join Career Center staff for a hands on workshop designed for creative workers like you! Please email Dr. Kate if you plan to attend so we can have an accurate count of participants.
• CEPE Panel -The Evolving Role of the 21st-century Artist-Citizen - Wednesday, February 23 from 7:00 pm - in person CRH. Join faculty members: Jane Hawley, Richard Merritt, Britt Rhodes, and Andrew Whitfield (moderator) discussing how might these artists be engaged citizens and agents of meaningful social change in today’s world? What role does this 21st-century artist-citizen play in a multi-racial, multicultural, multi-ethnic democracy?
• Alumni Talk - Bjorn Myhre (ZOOM) March 3rd - 9:45 to 10:45 am -  Björn grew up to American parents in Switzerland. After graduating from Luther College in 2016, he moved to California and worked in video production for brands such as Apple, Nikon, and Patagonia. He now works at Novartis where he proposes, designs, and creates content for a number of primarily digital platforms. Recently he started a creative agency whose goal is to make content that matters in support of companies, non-profits, and other entities who are actively trying to make the world a better place by way of sustainable business practices, social reform, health, and education.
• CEPE Panel -The Evolving Role of the 21st-century Artist-Citizen - Wednesday, March 9 from 7:00 pm - in person CRH. Join in the discussion with a panel of current Luther students on how might artists be engaged citizens and agents of meaningful social change in today’s world? What role does this 21st-century artist-citizen play in a multi-racial, multicultural, multi-ethnic democracy?
• MCAD - Ten Tips for Effective Gap Year Before Grad School (Zoom) - Tuesday, April 5  6:30 to 7:30 pm. Join Ellen Mueller from Minneapolis College of Art and Design to discuss how to maximize your gap year between Luther and your grad school. Email Dr. Kate for the Zoom link.
  
• Wendy Vogt - Etched into Place: Migrant Journeys - Wednesday, April 6, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - in person Olin 102. Join Wendy A. Vogt, a  Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her book, Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey, published in the California Series in Public Anthropology, chronicles the dangerous trajectories of Central American migrants crossing Mexico and is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other transit sites. In this talk she examines forms of solidarity and place-making within the often violent and racialized landscapes of migrant journeys."
  
• Career Center - SOPHOMORE (and Junior Strides) - Building Social Capital via LinkedIN and Handshake Thursday, April 7 @ 9:45 am and 8 pm. This Colloquium event is hosted by the Career Center. Participate in the session and email Dr. Kate a 100 words response to receive credit.
• James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize Virtual Lecture with Tala Madani  Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m (7 p.m at ET) Join artist Tala Madani for a thought-provoking virtual conversation on her artwork, which uses satire, absurdity, and raw honesty to respond to the contemporary world. Often balancing humor and tension, Madani's paintings and animations are a reflection on gender, political authority, and questions of who and what gets represented in art. Sign up here!

• Alumni Talk - Olivia Heitz (Zoom) April 13 @ 7:15 to 8:15 pm. Olivia Heitz ('16) is putting her dual degrees in Art and Psychology to work as a Professional Counselor Associate and Art Therapist. Come hear more about her path to her profession. Email Dr. Kate for the Zoom link.
  
• Rosemarie Garland-Thomson: Building a World that Includes Disability Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - in person Jenson - Noble Recital Hall @ 7:00 pm. This presentation finds disability in culture, history, and the arts and shows how people with disabilities and what they make and do in the world demonstrates resourcefulness, resilience, and dignity. To do so, the presentation traces the history of the disability rights movement and the flourishing of disability culture, politics, history, aesthetics, and ethics by and about people living with disabilities.
• The Stitch Their Names Memorial Project - The Stitch Their Names Memorial Project is currently on display in the CFA atrium, on the Gregerson Gallery Wall. As part of the exhibit, there will be an informal gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19. Richard Merritt will talk about the importance of quilts for communicating secret messages in the black tradition, the use of the AIDS quilt graphic design in the Black Lives Matter movement, as well the use of quilts and quilt imagery in other memorials. Nori Hadley '97 will talk about her participation in this project. Contact [email protected] with questions

• Senior Art Major Reception  - Monday April 25th @ 6:00pm - Senior Art Majors Ani Sargsyan, Sophie Wilt, and Stephanie Viayra will have their senior project exhibition works on display from April 21 - May 2. Please join us for the Reception Monday night April 25th from 6-7:30pm in the CFA Wigley-Fleming Gallery.

• Alumni Talk - Xi Nan April 28 - 6:00 to 7:00 (ZOOM) - Xi Nan was born and raised in Jilin, China. She was selected nationally from China Disabled Person Federation to study abroad at RCN United World College in Norway and earned her International Baccalaureate degree in 2007. Xi Nan won the United States national second award of juried exhibition of emerging artists with disabilities in 2011. She completed her MFA in ceramics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2015. Xi’s work has exhibited nationally (USA) including juried shows in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, DC, Long Island City, NY and Berkeley & San Francisco CA as well as Milan, Italy. Xi Nan was invited for exhibiting at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in Pittsburgh, PA 2018. Most recently, Xi has been invited to present her art in the Personal Structures exhibition of the Venice 2022 Art Biennial by the European Cultural Center - Italy. She is currently a full time artist based in New York in the United States. Email Dr. Kate for the Zoom link.

  Explore the Role of AI in the Liberal Arts -April 29. Join professor Gereon Kopf and distinguished guests in three workshops and an evening plenary session on the role of Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts. Full descriptions at luther.edu/events.

  Workshops:

  • 9:15-10:15am in Loyalty Boardroom: "Getting Creative with AI" with Justin Brody (Franklin & Marshall College)
  • 1:30-2:30pm in Loyalty Boardroom: “Why Chatbots Fail: When the Second Person is not a Person” with Noreen Herzfeld (St. John’s University)
  • 2:45-3:45pm in Hovde Lounge: "An Interactive History of Chatbots" with Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University) 

  Plenary Session

  • 6pm in Mott/Borlaug: "What Does Alexa Really Know?" The plenary session will explore the definitions and limitations of knowledge, human as well as computational. What do we know about consciousness? How can we know whether AI or chatbots have consciousness? 

  Questions: [email protected]

  Sponsored by Campus Programming Board, CEPE, Paideia, and Preus Library.

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