Ellen Mueller

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CAA Call for Presentations

by Ellen Mueller on July 18, 2018, no comments

Karen Gergely and I are co-chairing a panel at the CAA Conference in NYC, Feb 13-16, 2019, entitled, Social Practice & Service Learning. We’re looking for presenters. Here’s the abstract: Based on feedback from our Teaching and Social Practice roundtable from CAA 2018, we are calling for presentations from artists, designers, and art historians, which examine similarities and […]

Parties & Parades: Approaches to Social Practice

by Ellen Mueller on March 17, 2018, no comments

I am chairing a panel at the MACAA conference in Lincoln, Nebraska October 4-6th, 2018. My panel is entitled, Parties & Parades: Approaches to Social Practice, and I’m looking for presenters. Here’s the abstract: For the purposes of this panel, we will categorize social practice as social engagement and collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions as a form of […]

CAA Round Table Discussion on Social Practice

by Ellen Mueller on February 13, 2018, no comments

Please join Karen Gergely and I as we lead a round table discussion at this year’s CAA Conference: SOCIAL PRACTICE: DOING AND TEACHING Time: 02/23/2018: 12:30PM–2:00PM Location: Petree Hall CD, Red Table We’ll be discussing artistic practice that works with and for the benefit of communities. I’ll be handing out some zines too:  

Intersections: Drawing & Social Practice

by Ellen Mueller on February 12, 2018, no comments

I am chairing a panel at the SECAC conference in Birmingham, October 17 – 20th, 2018. My panel is entitled, Intersections: Drawing & Social Practice, and I’m looking for presenters. Here’s the abstract: Socially engaged art practices are growing in popularity, encompassing more media, approaches, forms, and strategies. As Pablo Helguera articulates in Education for Socially Engaged Art, “[it] is […]

Fall Semester 2017 Re-Cap

by Ellen Mueller on December 28, 2017, no comments

I finally have gotten around to my end-of-semester re-cap for fall 2017 (winter break has been a long to-do list so far!): My courses included 2D Design (highlight was a field trip to Boston’s ICA), Foundations Seminar (notably, hosting visiting artist Sage Perrott and organizing a student exhibition of zines at the library), and Digital Fabrication (hosted […]