Friday, September 15, 2017 - 2:00pm to Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 7:00pm
(FRIDAY) 402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street, (SATURDAY) Penn Museum (use Kress entrance)
PENN VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP
Making and Materiality: Studio Arts in a Liberal Arts Education
What is added by including visual arts making into a liberal arts education? Colleagues from fine arts, architecture, education, history of art, museum programming, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology examine this question, together with alums of the Visual Studies program at Penn.
Keynote Speakers
Friday, September 15
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th St., University of Pennsylvania
Speakers: Nick Sousanis, SFSU; Ellen Winner, BC
Workshop
Saturday, September 16
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
University Museum (use Kress entrance)
Click here for Abstracts and Background Readings
Co-Sponsord by: Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, History of Art department, Philosophy department, Provost’s Interdisciplinary Arts Fund, University Museum, Wolf Humanities Center
