COMMEMORATING THE ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM
Photo Credit : Shuana Niessen
Artist and second-year Arts Education student Molly Johnson was commissioned to produce the commemorative piece pictured above that will be installed in the Faculty of Education to celebrate the Arts Education program ’ s 34 successful years in the Faculty of Education and the Fall 2016 introduction of the new 4-year Arts Ed program .
Visual Education Chair , Dr . Valerie Triggs says , “ The Faculty of Education decided to invite proposals for a work of commemorative art to celebrate the years that the Arts Education program has been in the Faculty and also the transition to the new program . We received many excellent proposals . The selection committee decided to award the commission for this commemorative work of art to Molly Johnson .”
The Faculty also approached the MAP ( Media , Arts , and Performance ) Faculty , requesting an artistmentor to work alongside Molly . Dr . Triggs says , “ We had the privilege of connecting with a graduate student from MAP , Jennifer Shelly Keturakis .”
On her role as mentor , Jennifer says it was an honour to work with Molly ; she is “ self-directed , motivated , intelligent and articulate … I had one set of expectations of what my input would be because I made some assumptions based on her being a second year [ student ], based on my own experience as a second year , but I quickly had to pick a different role .”
Molly ’ s artwork was exhibited and celebrated on March 7 , 2017 at the Student Success Celebration .
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