Principles of Possibility
Olivia Gude
Artist, Educator, and Recipient of the National Association of Art Education’s 2009 Lowenfeld Award
for significant contributions to the field of art education

Lois Hetland says,  "This is a not-to-be-missed presentation!  Come and bring your friends so you can show them just how cool art education really is.  Crowe and I are friends with Olivia–he’s told his classes that she is his "professional crush."  Saturday Studios has lots to learn (and has already learned a lot!) from her Spiral Workshop about ways to bring in contemporary art, visual and youth culture (read "the street"), and post-modernism (I appreciate it because of Olivia).  Probably most important for us at MassArtEd is her understanding about connections between community art education and art education in K-12 schools.  And, well, she’s fun, and really funny. Come!"
 
April 6, 2009
Talk:  6:30 – 8:30
Tower Auditorium
Reception:  8:30, Arnheim Gallery, South 108
 
 Co-sponsored by the Student Government Association and the Art Education Department 

Fellows & Others,  acrylic paint on brick,  Olivia Gude and Juan Chavez

Professor Olivia Gude, Great Cities Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a Chicago-based community artist who creates murals and mosaics. Professor Gude developed the Contemporary Community Curriculum Initiative, a project in which art teachers collaboratively developed curriculum based on postmodern art and community issues, and she directs the Spiral Workshop, UIC’s Saturday art program for teens.

Olivia’s webpage http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/sites/Olivia/OG_01.html 
the Spiral Workshop site http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/)