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SUMMARY:Aegis 3rd Biennial Symposium on Art History and Visual Culture
DESCRIPTION:Taking the  ‘s’ out of Craft" is the Aegis 3rd Biennia
 l Symposium on Art History and Visual Culture co-sponsored by the Hite
  Art Institute\, University of Louisville and  the Kentucky Museum of 
 Art and Craft (KMAC). Lydia Matthew will present the keynote address\,
  "Craft Matters\: Exchanging Knowledge in the Wake of Globalization." 
  Matthews is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the Curatoria
 l Design Research Lab at Parsons The New School for Design in New York
  City\, where she served as Dean of Academic Programs from 2006-2011. 
 Trained as a contemporary art historian at UC\, Berkeley and the Unive
 rsity of London's Courtauld Institute\, she worked as a cultural activ
 ist in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years\, founding the gra
 duate program in Visual Critical Studies and co-directing the MFA Fine
  Arts program at California College of the Arts. Through international
  teaching\, curating\, and publishing\, she explores how artists\, art
 isans\, designers\, multi-disciplinary scholars and students can work 
 together to foster democratic debates in the public sphere\, and focus
 es on critical craft practices that inspire intimate community interac
 tions. As a 2012 Fulbright Fellow\, she co-curated various socially-en
 gaged projects in Greece\, Turkey and the Republic of Georgia\, highli
 ghting and catalyzing local responses to social and ecological crises 
 resulting from globalization.
LOCATION:Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
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