{"id":208137,"date":"2024-03-08T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/?p=208137"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:31:31","slug":"empowering-civic-engagement-through-art-a-collaboration-between-livia-alexander-and-artist-macon-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/2024\/03\/08\/empowering-civic-engagement-through-art-a-collaboration-between-livia-alexander-and-artist-macon-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Civic Engagement Through Art: A collaboration between Livia Alexander and artist Macon Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclaire.du\/~alexanderli\">Livia Alexander<\/a> had the honor to collaborate with artist Macon Reed to activate her work, A Pressing Conference. Initially showcased in an exhibition curated by Livia alongside Isin Onol and Richard Jochum at Columbia University&#8217;s Teachers College, the project transitioned into a course taught by Livia at ÌÇÐÄvlog.<\/p>\n<p>With the midterm elections coinciding mid-semester, the timing proved opportune to explore the significance of a creative practice in civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>ÌÇÐÄvlog students engaged with Macon&#8217;s vibrant, handcrafted sculptural installation inspired by the White House press briefing room and then dedicated their semester to staging a performance at the Montclair Art Museum, amplifying their voices on overlooked issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI&#8217;m so grateful and honored to have this work the focus of Dr. Eungie Lee&#8217;s recent article: &#8220;Socially engaged art in the classroom: A study of \u201cA Pressing Conference\u201d by Macon Reed as curricular content,&#8221; published in the Journal of Research in Art Education.\u201d &#8211; Livia Alexander<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, please click below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kci.go.kr\/kciportal\/ci\/sereArticleSearch\/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003051377\">Read abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maconreed.com\/montclair-art-museum\">Macon Reed:\u00a0 Montclair Art Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor Livia Alexander collaboration with artist Macon Reed leads to publication of their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":208138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-19_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208140,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208137\/revisions\/208140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/art-and-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}