BorderLinks Border Studies Travel Seminar for Educators August 13-17, 2008

The Border Studies Seminar for Educators will bring together educators – professors, teachers, students of education, education administrators, and religious educators – from all around the U.S. to participate in a BorderLinks travel seminar along the border. This seminar provides a platform for educators to see, experience, discuss and reflect on border issues with colleagues in the field of education. Join fellow education professionals in exploring the complexities of the U.S./Mexico border through a joint analysis of the following core themes: immigration policy and law, human rights and labor conditions, migration, global economics and the implications of NAFTA, international politics and U.S./ Mexico relations, drug and human smuggling, border militarization and security, community organizing, education and social services.

Expect to meet with individuals along the border including academics, human rights activists, labor organizers, government officials, community leaders, immigration specialists, public defenders, border artists and migrants. Potential visits include maquilas (foreign-owned assembly plants), migrant shelters, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, a micro-credit institution and local humanitarian aid organizations. In addition to structured visits, participants will have the opportunity to stay with host families in Nogales and engage with local community members along the border.

 

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Deborah Is Going on Vacation

deborahforweb.jpgTo the Art Education Community:

Now that we’ve all worked hard, celebrated the achievements of our graduates, and brought the academic year to a close, it is time for me to go on vacation!

The office will be closed from June 16th to July 11th while I am on vacation.  I’ll be back on July 14th, just in time for the start of our summer MSAE session.

I hope you all have a restful summer, and I wish all the job-seeking graduates the best of luck. 

Deborah
Administrative Assistant

Photo by Hui-Ju Chang

Shared Studio Space Available

South End, available June 1st

950 sq. ft. non live-in studio to share with female abstract painter.  New construction on Harrison Ave.  Good traffic during Open Studios (mid Sept.),

3rd floor, three 6’x6′ windows, 10′ ceilings, AC, concrete floors, full kitchen and bath.  14’x18′ private space with two closets and communal seating area. 

Am a light smoker and sleep in the space 3 nights a week while finishing my masters at Mass Art.  $500. a month includes utilities.

 Contact Jen Roberts, MSAE student:  jenroberts23@hotmail.com

Art Jump Off Gets Good Press

jump-off.jpgArt Jump Off, the after-school program at Lila G. Frederick Pilot Middle School run by Mass Art students from John Giordano’s  Creating Community course, has been written up in the Dorchester newspaper The Reporter.  In the fall semester fifteen Mass Art students from the Creating Community class were involved in the program.  This semester Kristen Mills is coordinating the program; she will be teaching the Creating Community class in the fall semester while John is on sabbatical.  Two Art Education majors, Jamie Andrade and Robin Bellinger, as well as a senior from Boston Arts Academy, Makeba Bostic, are teaching in Art Jump Off.

See the article on page 3 of The Reporter. 
(pdf download)

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Carina Koury-Jones and Padraic Manning  in Art Education for being chosen for awards for their pieces in the All School Show!

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Padraic Manning

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Carina Koury-Jones, Just Paper