The College of the Arts presents "The Arts at the Vanguard of Change," a conversation series on the intersections of creative practice and social justice.
Within the nation’s higher education institutions, across the pages of its academic journals, “a growing body of progressive white scholars and scholars of color have spent the past several decades fighting for, and largely succeeding in creating, a more honest chronicle of the American past,” Jelani Cobb wrote in the New Yorker in May 2021. “But these battles and the changes they’ve achieved have, by and large, gone unnoticed by the lay public.”
As a center of excellence and equity, PSU’s College of the Arts and its faculty and staff strive to employ the arts as catalysts for social change, and expand the reach of the arts to everyone. Working for these principles necessarily includes the work of fighting for and creating that more honest chronicle of the United States’s history, through the transformative medium of the arts.
In the College of the Arts, our colleagues are doing this work every day. In this year-long conversation series, faculty from all four schools within the college (Architecture, Art + Design, Film, and Music & Theater) who demonstrate equity of expression, scholarship and creativity will share their radically inclusive ways of seeing their disciplines and, by extension, the world.
All brown-bag events are free and open to PSU faculty, staff, students and the larger community.