George Mason University Korea successfully partnered with University of Utah Asia Campus on Art for Change, an art exhibition and event series on issues of social justice. All students, faculty, and staff at Incheon Global Campus (IGC) were invited to submit their artwork for the exhibit. Over 100 art pieces were submitted by students, faculty, and staff from Incheon Global Campus (IGC). More than 90 volunteers and 400 attendees participated in the exhibition and events.
Art for Change was birthed as a collaboration between three professors: Elizabeth Quillin of Mason Korea, and Kirsten Morris and Kera Lovell of Utah Asia Campus (UAC). Students from all three professors’ courses read the graphic novel Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim as classroom text and participated in the gallery as part of coursework while exploring social justice issues.
The art exhibit was held from May 25 to June 4 at the IGC Gallery. The event featured a film screening of The Apology by Tiffany Hsiung as well as a panel discussion with Peabody award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung, Poetry Foundation Award-Winning Poet Emily Jungmin Moon, and Award-Nominated Playwright Dimo Kim.
Mason Korea’s Professor Christopher Kardambikis also led a Zine Workshop, where he gave a mini-lecture on the history of community print shops which were integral to activist organizing before assisting workshop participants in making their own social justice zines (pronounced “zeens,” short for magazines).
The event concluded with an award ceremony where Dr. Robert Matz, Campus Dean of Mason Korea, and Dr. Gregory Hill, Chief Administrative Officer of UAC, delivered congratulatory speeches, and the awards for Art for Change were announced. We look forward to more opportunities to collaborate with our neighboring universities in the future.
For more photos from Art for Change, click here.
June 21, 2021
