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Stuart Hall Library
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Venue
Stuart Hall Library
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Date and time
Saturday 30th November 2024
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Admission
Free but sign up is essential.
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Time
11am - 3:30pm
The Creative Mapping: Art Educators Lab will gather art educators working in traditional and untraditional settings to connect and discuss what it means to think radically about arts education. This Lab is also an opportunity for educators to access our library and archive material from the Stuart Hall Library’s collection and help shape our future programming according to their needs and ambitions.
The lab is an opportunity to engage with the work of artists and educators Exodus Crooks and Meera Chauda, who will each lead a workshop presenting on their practices engaging with arts education. We will also have a session focused on library and archive resources and think about how they may be used to support art educators.
Agenda
[11:00] Introduction to iniva’s Creative Mapping by Sepake Angiama – Led by iniva’s Artistic Director Sepake Angiama, explore the vision behind this gathering.
[11:30] Introduction workshop by Kaitlene Koranteng – Led by iniva’s Archivist and Engagement Producer
[12:30] Lunch break – lunch will be provided
[13:30] Exploring radical pedagogy workshop led Meera Chauda – Meera Chauda will lead a workshop explore her own artistic and education practice in relation to the topic of radical pedagogy.
[14:30] Exploring radical pedagogy workshop led Exodus Crooks – Exodus lead a workshop explore their own artistic and education practice in relation to the topic of radical pedagogy.
[15:30] Closing Reflections
RSVP
Admission is free but we have very limited spaces for this event. If you’d like to join, please email Kaitlene Koranteng kkoranteng@iniva.org
About the contributors
Meera Chauda
Meera Chauda is a visual artist based in London. I also work in the learning sector as an artist facilitator, consultant, researcher and mentor.
In her practice she finds, makes and manipulates images in order to construct playful yet complex narratives. Chauda re-creates fictional female protagonists that belong to the childhood stories she has grown-up with. The resulting composite characters who belong to many different stories and histories.
Chauda has worked in Arts Education as a facilitator, educator, consultant, and trainer, collaborating with institutions such as Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, The National Maritime Museum, the British Library, and The South London Gallery. Her contributions span leading projects, workshops, training, resource development, evaluation, and consultation. Central to her practice is a commitment to fostering inclusivity and advancing anti-racist and decolonising practices within the arts.
Exodus Crooks
Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican multidisciplinary artist and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality. Informed by a fractious domestic life, their practice is auto ethnographical and exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy.
Their art is research focused and follows the lead of the many radical Caribbean writers and thinkers advocating for indigenous ways of living. Exodus is currently experimenting with gardening, text, filmmaking, and installation to better understand indigenous thought and tend to the breaks that occur in the human experience.
Exodus serves on a regional arts advisory board and a national artists council that advocates for the development and protection of artists and has previously exhibited and worked with Ikon Gallery, the International Curators Forum, iniva, Freelands Foundation, LUX Scotland and the National Gallery in London. They are proud to be based in heart of the Midland’s vibrant art community, working closely with local galleries and organisations such as Grand Union, Vivid Projects, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.