I am just back from the SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) in Atlanta. One of my co-authors Giselle Mira-Diaz applied for us to present ideas from our book Modelling International Collaborations in Art. The panel presentation was excellent with thoughts about online teaching, what makes for excellent demo videos, online safety training and research into supporting faculty to use Canvas LMS effectively, besides our discussion of international collaboration and online communication.
We announced our book in many contexts and the main book table, Scholar’s Choice, displayed a copy.
I made connections with faculty from Savannah College of Art and Design, among others as well as Dominik Lengyel from Berlin, expert in visualizations of ancient and historical architecture. I attended presentations on artist residency experiences, art related to climate change and artist-run organizations. We made a number of promising contacts for the next Sustainability Jam we will plan for next May-June. Some of them are in Chicago and will be great contacts for Giselle I think. The environment and climate change was a strong theme in this year’s conference, as was collaboration.
Much thanks to Giselle for connecting us to this conference.