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The University of Arizona's U.S. Department of Education Title VI Centers — Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) — are excited to invite you to join our ninth annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference. This year's conference's theme, "Arts and Education without Borders," aims to explore innovative strategies and best practices for integrating global perspectives into community college curricula through the arts.
Arts encompass a wide range of creative expressions that include visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and more. Each form of art uses different mediums, techniques, and styles to convey ideas, emotions, and experiences.
Arts in education play a vital role in fostering a well-rounded and holistic learning experience. By incorporating arts into the curriculum, educators help students develop essential life skills, enhance their academic abilities, and nurture their emotional and social well-being.
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, it is crucial for community colleges to prepare students to thrive in a globalized society. The arts provide a unique platform for fostering cross-cultural understanding, empathy, critical thinking, and creative expression. The conference theme, “Arts and Education without Borders,” explores how the arts can be leveraged to globalize community college curricula, creating more inclusive and culturally responsive educational experiences for students, and preparing them for diverse, multicultural environments.
This conference is free and will be meeting in-person only. Friday dinner and a light breakfast Saturday will be included for all participants.
Registration is required. Please register here. Spaces are limited. Registration will close on January 10, 2025 or when we reach capacity.
More detailed information on the conference agenda will be shared soon. For now, please note the following preliminary schedule:
Friday, January 17: The keynote presentation will begin at 5:30 pm with a dinner to follow at 7:00 pm.
Alana Hernandez will give the keynote lecture at the University of Arizona Poetry Center at 5:30 pm. This lecture is presented in collaboration with the Poetry Center, the College of Humanities, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference.
Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez conceptualizes exhibitions and projects as relational and co-creative work with artists and develops projects that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. She actively engages in a curatorial and methodological model that prioritizes visibility, decentralized institutional authorship, and community-embedded agency and works directly with constituencies to facilitate meaning-making that is generative, mobilizing, and transformative. In recent years, much of Hernandez’s curatorial work centers on Latinx art and artists working with print and craft-based mediums and investigates how the aesthetic statements thus employed are integral, often political producers of cultural consciousness.
Hernandez was previously Executive Director & Curator at CALA Alliance. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico; Hunter East Harlem, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Phoenix Art Museum; and BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and online journals, including HereIn Journal. Hernandez received her M.A. from CUNY Hunter College, where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art.
Saturday, January 18: Panel sessions and conference activities will take place in the ENR2 Building, Room S107 from 8:30 am - 5:30 pm, beginning with a light breakfast.
For out of town attendees, the Tucson Marriott University Park has set aside a small block of rooms at a discounted conference rate of $159/night plus taxes. Use this link to reserve a room at the special rate. Please do so soon so that the rate will be guaranteed.
For questions, please contact us at TVI-Outreach@arizona.edu.