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TransActions #2 – Field and Academy: Knowledge and Counter Knowledge in Socially-Engaged Art

Editorial Fiona Whelan, Joint Coordinator/Lecturer MA Socially Engaged Art + Further Education, NCAD Dr. Ailbhe ...
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INTERVIEW
 Dr. Gregory Sholette

Dr. Gregory Sholette, New York based artist, writer and activist is interviewed by Fiona Whelan, artist and joint ...
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Socially-Engaged Art & Social Enterprise: Creativity on the brink….

Dr. Kevin Ryan School of Political Science & Sociology, NUIG The sociological imagination is sometimes ...
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Critical gaps: a curriculum for socially-engaged art

Fiona Woods, Artist and part-time lecturer MA SEA+FE, NCAD In socially-engaged art, several distinct ...
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How People Come Up with Ideas

Jennie Guy Artist, Writer and Independent Curator My practice is based on independent curatorial research ...
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Arba Minch Art Project: the evolution of an art education project

Helen Carey Director, Fire Station Artists’ Studio and Independent Curator This project took place in ...
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Between Mythos and the Curriculum: the Arcade Project as a Mode of Pedagogical Enquiry

Dr. Ciaran Smyth, Vagabond Reviews           Pedagogy is a school of thought and a weapon.       ...
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Mega-Spectacles of Engagement

Dr. Connell Vaughan, Lecturer in Visual Culture, DIT/ Lecturer MA SEA+FE, NCAD (2016)   What’s in a ...
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The Art of Self-Education: Shifting school models through artistic inquiry

Allison Peters Quinn, Curator at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, interviews artists 
Jim Duignan of Stockyard ...
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Creative producers and the communities of tomorrow

Katherine Atkinson, Project Support and Professional Development, Create &
 Lars Ebert, European Academy of ...
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  Image Liz Smith, artist and student MA SEA + FE, NCAD
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MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education), NCAD, Class of 2015-17

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TransActions #1 Chicago Editorial, Looking out over a city from Chicago

Jim Duignan I grew up in Chicago, in the moments of mural movements and ...
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TransActions #1 Dublin Editorial, A tale of two cities…

Fiona Whelan & Glenn Loughran Transaction: a communicative action or activity involving two parties1 or ...
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Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?

Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.  |  Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at ...
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The Care-Less State of Ireland: Why we need to challenge the Charity model of Social Justice

Kathleen Lynch  |  Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice, University ...
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Art, Activism, Vulnerability and Noble Calls

Liz Burns  |  Liz Burns is Arts Programme Manager, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. ...
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Pulp Feminism: Radical Social Histories in Hand Papermaking

Melissa Potter  |  Melissa Potter is an artist and Associate Professor and Director of the Book & Paper Program ...
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MODE : D

Glenn Loughran  |  Glenn Loughran is an Artist and educator working in the National College of Art and Design ...
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Reading difficult text in difficult times: A Conceptual Art Move for A Conceptual Art Time

Jorge Lucero  |  Jorge Lucero is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of ...
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Dublin: Design and Decline

Alan Mee  |  Alan Mee is an architect working in urbanism, architecture, research and education at ...
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An Interview with Sarah Ross of Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project 
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Sarah Ross & Heath Schultz  |  Sarah Ross is an artist and teaches at the School of the Art Institute ...
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Cultural Cowardice: Contemporary arts policy and practices in Ireland and their failure to engage citizens and neighbourhoods in the process of community arts and socially engaged arts practices.

Niall O’ Baoill  |  Niall O Baoill is a fifty five year old friend of learning and sometimes community / youth and ...
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Step High, Stoop Low: Yeats and Larkin in Chicago

Paul Durica  |  Paul Durica is a writer and Programs Coordinator for the Arts Club of Chicago. ...
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Using Community Arts to Defeat Austerity

John Bissett  |  John Bissett is a community worker and activist. To whom it may concern, my name is John ...
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The Politics of Listening

Fiona Whelan |  Fiona Whelan is an artist and Joint Coordinator of the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
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Critical Practice Questions

MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & Community Education) class 2013–15: Adele Kidd, Anne Marie ...
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Hope and Fear for Collaboration

Anne Marie Gerardi  |  Anne Marie Gerardi is a visual artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art ...
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An Irrational Equation

Jackqualyn Gray  |  Jackqualyn Gray is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Practice- Parameters, Practices and Policies in the Formation of Teachers, Artists and Educators

Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Practice: Parameters, Practices and Policies in the Formation of Teachers, Artists and Educators

Gary Granville & Nuala Hunt  |  Nuala Hunt is Head of Continuing Education and Joint Coordinator of MA Socially ...
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Social Practice and Public Art: A survey of socially engaged art in Dublin City Council’s Public Art Programme

Gráinne Finn  |  Gráinne Finn is an independent curator and programme manager with the Irish Landscape ...
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The Act Itself is not Enough

Louise White  |  Louise White is a Dublin based theatre-maker and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, ...
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The Monto Cycle, 4 Projects and 5 years of Working On Site in North Inner City Dublin

Owen Boss  |  Owen Boss is a visual artist, co founder and co-artistic director of ANU. ...
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Jane Addams and the Tradition of Community Arts Practice in Chicago

Richard Siegesmund  |  Richard Siegesmund is a Professor of Art and Design Education in the School of Art at ...
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Build a Free Culture Space in Chicago

Stockyard Institute  |  Jim Duignan is an artist and Program Director of the Visual Art Education Program ...
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Jacinda Julio

Jacinda Julio The birth of Chicago’s ½ Pints Poetics (HPP) dates back to the mid 90’s, when Kuumba Lynx ...
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What should revolutionary artists do now?

Susy Bielak | Susy Bielak is an artist and the Associate Director of Engagement and Curator of Public Practice at ...
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Ad for Socially Engaged practitioners

Jane Butler  |  Jane Butler is an artist and student on the MA Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult & ...
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Lucky Pierre’s Final Meals Project

Michael Thomas  |  Michael Thomas is the co-founder of Lucky Pierre, a collaborative group working in writing, ...
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Kuumba Lynx

Jacinda In his nonfiction "history of a fiction," Jeff Chang ends his prelude stating " there are many more ...
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Create Collaborative Art and the City

Ailbhe Murphy  |  Ailbhe Murphy is an artist and Director of Create, the National Development Agency for ...
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Milton’s Lens

Chris Maguire  |  Chris Maguire is a Dublin based artist and community activist and teaches on the MA Socially ...
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Direct Provision Centers as Manifestations of Resistance

Vukašin Nedeljkovic  | Vukašin Nedeljkovic is a PhD candidate at Centre for Transcultural Research and Media ...
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CITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: LESSONS FROM THE LAISSEZ-FAIRE METROPOLIS

Jennifer Gray  |  Jennifer L. Gray is an Art and Architectural Historian at Columbia University and an educator ...
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CAPE

Hilesh Patel and Scott Sikkema Authors’ note:  because there are two authors, we refer to ourselves in ...
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96 Acres and Project NIA: Building an anti-incarceration infrastructure

Bert Stabler  |  Bert Stabler is a Renaissance man occupying the prairie. ...