Lunch On Fridays: Student Panel on Engaged Practice

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. Each lecture features a variety of artists and designers from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists.

In the past school year, over 50 CIA students have participated in some form of socially engaged practice through courses, internships and extracurricular projects – applying their art, design and “soft” skills to such social issues as health care, poverty, homelessness, urban schools, and/or the environment.

At the final Lunch on Friday of the school year, CIA students David Acosta, Justin Freeman, Changyeob Ok, Katelyn Petronick, Meghan Sweeney, and Elmi Ventura Mata will speak about these experiences of taking their art and design education beyond the classroom. In some cases, way beyond the classroom.

In a panel discussion moderated by Chris Whittey, Vice President of Faculty Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, these students will reflect on experiences as diverse as designing surgical instruments for a medical instrument manufacturer in Michigan, volunteering for community rebuilding efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans, creating portraits from live observation with hospital patients or shelter residents, collaborating with senior citizens in a HUD highrise, creating resource maps for the Cleveland homeless population, and making work at the intersection of art and the environment in a Cleveland Metropark.

Free pizza and pop available on a first-come-first-served basis.

This panel discussion is one of the final installments in CIA's yearlong series, “Community Works: Artist as Social Agent,” which has explored many facets of socially engaged art. Community Works is an example of Cores + Connections, CIA's academic mission in which core values of faculty mentorship, studio and academic rigor, and state-of-the-art curriculum, all power extensive connections for student engagement in field-based experiential learning, real-world professional projects, and social practices in art and design.

For more information on CIA's Engaged Practice courses, click here.

Lunch On Fridays is generously supported by CIA's Foundation and Liberal Arts departments.

Cleveland Institute of Art is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

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