TransCultural Exchange

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CONFERENCES

Workshops are Free Admittance with a Conference Badge
Please note that the e-publishing and The Art of Connecting Worlds' workshops have limited capacity. If you are interested in participating in those, please sign up with them through the full schedule. All others workshops are open to all participants with a Conference badge.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2016
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
10:30 – 11:45 am
e-Publishing: Making it Happen with the Wild Pansy Press Workshop (Day 1 of 2 Day Workshop)
Location: The 3rd Floor of the George Sherman Union, Room 310-311
Presenter: Simon Lewandowski, Editor and Producer of Wild Pansy Press, UK

1:30 – 3:00 pm
Hour Long Workshop: The Art of Press Relations
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500: 855 Commonwealth Avenue
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Presenter: Rita Fucillo, Art Critic, Artist and Illustrator, Germany

3:15 – 4:45 pm
Hour Long Workshop: Diary of Smells: Language, Sound and Olfactory Experience
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500: 855
Commonwealth Avenue
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Presenter: Josely Carvalho, Brazilian multi-interdisciplinary Artist

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 2016
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
9:15 – 10:15 am
Hour Long Workshop: Websites for Artists: Why Artists need Websites
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500: 855 Commonwealth Avenue
Presenter: Nadia Mierau, Founder of the fine art reproduction company LIGiclee.com and Artwebspace.com

10:30 – 11:30 am
Hour Long Workshop: Selling your Books to World Markets through International Book Fairs
Location: George Sherman Union, 2nd Floor, Metcalf Hall, Auditorium
Presenter: Irene Smalls, Award-winning Author of 15 books for children published by Little Brown, Simon and Schuster and Scholastic Press and twice Presenter at the White House

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 2016
EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:00 - 3:00 pm
AT MIT
Workshop: The Art of Connecting Worlds: Cultural Technologies and Sustainability
Location: MIT / ACT at the E15-054, Rothschild Room
Presenters: Azra Aksamija, Artist, Architectural Historian and Assistant Professor at MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program and Janeil Engelstad, Artist and Founding Director of Make Art with Purpose MAP with presentations by Susan Diachisin, Director of the Center for Creative Connections at the Dallas Museum of Art; Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Artists, Curators and Founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art; Oto Hudec, multi- media artist; Caroline Jones, Art Historian and Author; Katt Lissard, Artistic Director of the Winter/Summer Institute; and Matthew Mazzotta, Conceptual Artist
Limited to 15. Sign up [here]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 2016
EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
1:15 - 2:45 pm
Workshop: Crafting an Elevator Pitch and Developing the Confidence to use it
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500: 855 Commonwealth Avenue
Presenters: Sara Jones and Andrea Wenglowskj, Co-Founders of Kind Aesthetic, New York

3:00 - 4:30 pm
Workshop: Intervencionistas Ignite
Location: College of Fine Arts, Room 500: 855 Commonwealth Avenue
Presenter: Doris Sommer, Harvard Professor, Author of The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities and Founder and Director of Cultural Agents, whose mission is to promote the arts and humanities as social resource

10:00 am – noon
Workshop: Walking as Art: Moving Out and Across Our Senses, Institutions and Social Engagement + Single File History Art Walk
Note: This is a participatory Round Table that will begin at the entrance to Boston’s Museum of African American History and then end at the Thinking Cup Café
Presenter: Moira Williams, Founding Member of the walking cooperative Walk Exchange

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 2016
LATE MORNING SESSIONS
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
10:45 – 11:45 am
e-Publishing: Making it Happen with the Wild Pansy Press Workshop (Day 2 of 2 Day Workshop)
Location: The 3rd Floor of the George Sherman Union, Room 310-311
Presenter: Simon Lewandowski, Editor and Producer of Wild Pansy Press, UK
Day 2 of workshop, limited to those who signed up and attended the Day 1 Thursday workshop.