Otis Graduate Public Practice presents Concentric Conversations

Otis Graduate Public Practice presents Concentric Conversations

Otis College of Art and Design

Outdoor projection video still, DISMANTLED 2011, San Diego and Fresno
February 17, 2011
Otis Graduate Public Practice presents Concentric Conversations

Voice: Critical Pedagogy and
Public Practice

February 25-27, 2011

Otis Graduate Public Practice Program
1657 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 846-2610
[email protected]

http://otis.edu/gpp

Dismantled

Christopher Robbins is Associate Professor of Social Foundations at Eastern Michigan University. His research interests include critical and public pedagogy, the interrelationships of social and educational policy, racism and racial inequality, and the impacts of criminalization and militarization on schools and public culture. He is the author of Expelling Hope: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling (SUNY, 2008).

Organized by Suzanne Lacy and Sara Daleiden of Otis College of Art and Design’s Graduate Public Practice Program, this weekend intensive continues the Concentric Conversations series of dialogic events offered to encourage discourse among L.A. cultural practitioners. The Graduate Public Practice Program is the only educational program in the Southern California region dedicated exclusively to providing artists with advanced skills for working in the public sphere, focusing both on collaborative and individual art production.

For a full schedule of the weekend’s events, please visit http://otis.edu/calendar

Applications currently being accepted for Fall 2011. http://otis.edu/admissions/graduate_admissions/index.html

Otis Graduate Public Practice Program
1657 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 846-2610
[email protected]

http://otis.edu/gpp

Founded in Los Angeles in 1918, Otis College of Art and Design prepares diverse students of art and design to enrich the world through their creativity, their skill, and their vision. The College offers an interdisciplinary education for 1200 full-time students, awarding BFA degrees in advertising, architecture/landscape/interiors, digital media, fashion design, illustration, graphic design, product design, painting, photography, sculpture/new genres, and toy design; and MFA degrees in fine arts, graphic design, public practice, and writing. Continuing Education offers certificate programs as well as personal and professional development courses.