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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

CTL Teach and Tell: New Art City with Claire Fleming Staples (Contemporary Practices)

Tuesday, April 1
12:00-1:00 p.m.

MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave.

New Art City is an online platform that allows users to create and navigate virtual 3-D worlds. Accessible and easy to use, the possibilities range from online exhibitions of traditional work to fantastical game-like environments with spatial sound and portals to take you from one space to the next. New Media artist and Contemporary Practices professor Claire Fleming Staples will lead a workshop for all skill-levels of aspiring exhibition and world builders––no previous experience with 3-D modeling required!

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CTL/Senate Sustainability Subcommittee

Monday, April 21
3:30–5:00 p.m.

MacLean 302
112 S. Michigan Ave.

The Senate Sustainability Committee and the Center for Teaching and Learning are excited to co-host a skill share on sustainability and pedagogy. This event will provide an opportunity for faculty to come together and share their knowledge, experiences, and innovative teaching practices related to sustainability.

Join us for presentations from our esteemed faculty colleagues Dr. Andrew Scarpelli in AT/SP, Odile Compagnon in AIADO, and Marie Herwald Hermann in Ceramics.

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Why AI: SAIC Students Speak

Wednesday, April 23
3:30–5:00 p.m.

MacLean 617
112 S. Michigan Ave

This all-student panel is intended to nurture a conversation about how and why SAIC students use AI in studio and academic settings and what they think about the ethical implications of such technologies in their work and beyond it. Co-sponsored with SAIC's Liberal Arts Department.

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News from the CTL

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CTL Teach and Tell: New Art City with Claire Fleming Staples

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CTL Teach and Tells: Start-Up Grant Awardees

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The Center for Teaching and Learning Announces Learning Lab Fellows

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Past Events

CTL Teach and Tell: Fragmentary Writing and Mess Making

Wednesday, October 30
3:30––5:00 p.m.

MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave

This workshop provided attendees with creative and unconventional ways to support students who struggle with traditional academic writing. Raghav Rao (Liberal Arts) leds this exciting and interactive workshop.

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CTL Teach and Tell: The Braid with Professor Adelheid Mers

Monday, November 18
3:30--5:00 p.m.

Jonh M. Flaxman Library (5th Floor)
37 S. Wabash Ave.

This interactive workshop introduced participants to the Braid: https://adelheidmers.org/braidmain.html
The Braid diagram evolved from conversations with artists about how they work. The three lobes of the Braid diagram were labeled Make, Mediate, and Manage. Used as prompts, the labels facilitated conversation about personal arts ecologies

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CTL Teach and Tell: Critique and Kindness

Wednesday, December 4
12:00-1:00 p.m.

MacLean 301
112 S. Michigan Ave,

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for lunch! Held during critique week, our Lunch and Learn program enables faculty to nourish themselves. socialize, and discuss important issues that emerge during critique week.

Theme: Critique as/and Kindness

Can critique be a form of kindness? What would it mean to dislocate critique from criticism and situate the practice/activity in relation to attention, presence, and well-being? Inspired by Mark Jeffery's work and forthcoming seminar, as well as the Wellness Center's ongoing student support services, we hope to facilitate a conversation that breathes new life into how we live with others in the critique setting.

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