Kicking off the final countdown (4 more days!) to contribute to our call for proposals, we are announcing some of the accepted proposals that made our initial call deadline. Drawing on a large pool of local and generous contributors that have agreed to share their innovative drawing practices, as well as reaching out to an international community joining us, its hard to hold back on on the amazing talent we are bringing together on June 24th. There is still space and time to submit, and we are focusing on being as accessible and inter-disciplinary as possible so check it out!
I’m pleased to share the announcement of our first collaborator, Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. We met during the Visual practitioners meetup last year and we connected over the need for simple and effective sketching tools for her students to express themselves. On her amazing course blogs (The Diversity Companion) (The Gender Companion) she shares stories of her teaching and provides space online for her students to engage. For her SKiP proposal she states…
“As a diversity and social justice instructor, I frequently ask students to write journal entries to reflect on difficult concepts in my course material. When I noticed how popular comics were becoming, I asked myself, “how can I introduce comics-sketches and “selfies” into students’ reflective process?” I could not have guessed how simple, fun and academically successful this innovation would be.”
Promising to pick up on our keynote speakers comic focus, it will great to see practices in ‘sequential art’ playing out in the classroom.
More updates coming soon!