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Saturday, February 1, 10:00am - 4:00pm at the ZMA

The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA) invites middle and high school art educators to join us for a day of exploring 3D digital modeling and laser cutting applications for art classrooms. Participants will learn various methods to produce 2D or 3D artwork using 2D and 3D digital imagery and a laser cutter. The workshop will explore Adobe Illustrator, Slicer for Fusion 360, and Blender software.

Also included in the workshop is a tour of the ZMA exhibition Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles where you will be inspired by the artist’s use of advanced technologies to create compelling and complex sculptural forms. Prior knowledge of Illustrator and access to a laser cutter is helpful but not required.

There is limited capacity for this workshop. To RSVP, please email Elizabeth Thomas at ethom142@kennesaw.edu. 

Wednesday, March 5, 12:00pm via Zoom

Fine Arts Manager, The Coca-Cola Company 

Elizabeth Wilson joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2019 and comes with more than 25 years of experience in corporate and non-profit art environments. She began her career at the High Museum of Art and has worked as an Art Consultant, curating art collections for high-end hotels around the world. In her current role as the Fine Arts Manager, her responsibilities range from managing the corporate collection to developing special exhibitions and curating workspaces in both the Atlanta headquarters and abroad. Wilson will speak about her career and curatorial practice. 

Thursday, March 6, 9:00am - 5:30pm at the ZMA

A convening on advancing health and wellbeing through the arts, artistic collaborations, and aesthetic experiences

Health has been defined as ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. The concept of wellbeing and what it means to be healthy remains deeply relevant to our communities in its concerns of shared trauma, grief, and loss confronted universally over the past several years. Poignant— and timely in response to continuing grim realities and profound global struggles— the proposed convening will highlight the potential of museums to serve as accessible, inclusive spaces for care and creativity, and their ability to offer community to diverse populations through the arts, artistic collaborations, and aesthetic experiences.

Residing within the academic research arena of ÈâÈ⴫ý, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is positioned to take a leading role as a catalyst for enacting change within our internal and external communities by providing programming that supports all aspects of mental and physical health and wellness through the lens of the artistic experiences. The ZMA has the potential to serve as a place of transformational change for the community while supporting and enhancing diverse audiences through service activities, experiential learning, leadership, and collaboration. This convening offers a platform to discuss developments in the medical/therapy field and the opportunities for cross-disciplinary programming between the professional disciplines of health care and contemporary art museums, artists and designers, and curators envisioning the future of well-being and recovery, as well as processing personal loss and trauma through the arts and art museum experiences.

Contemplative and impactful interactions with art, both via temporary exhibitions and museum collections, and the opportunities of interdisciplinary work between museum educators, art educators, designers, and medical school partners envisioning meaningful collaborations will be explored. Thus, this forum solicits acknowledgment of diverse voices and highlights the role of each stakeholder as audible in order for expressive content to be relevant and responsive to the populations it serves. This outwardly facing lens seeks and establishes a collaborative viewing of the museum and its inhabited landscapes as shared catalysts.