Virtual ProArts Faculty Development Panels 2023

Friday 2/17, 3:30-4:30 PM | Teaching While Black: How Cultural Legacies, Creative and Communication Arts Education, and Institutional Racism Have and Are Impacting the Experiences of Black Professors | Moderator: James Mason, Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at MassArt | Panelists: Judith Anderson, Professor of Industrial Design at MassArt; Dr. Brent Smith, Interim Dean and Professor of Marketing at Emerson College’s School of Communication; Ron Savage, Executive Director of Berklee College of Music | Description: In this era when calls for anti-racist approaches and the rejection of anti-Blackness are reverberating in both US American society and across academia, it is critical that both institutions and professors take concrete steps to respond meaningfully. In this session, Black professors at multiple intersections of identity will discuss how their pedagogy, creative works and scholarship function as embodiments of the histories, cultures and communities racism and colonialism endeavored to silence, demean and destroy. They will also share how Arts and Communications programs in Predominantly White Institutions can intentionally and ethically make structural and pedagogical decisions that not only make space for but advance anti-racism.

Friday 3/3, 12:30-2:00 PM | Contextualizing the Impacts of COVID-19 Within Higher Education | Moderator: Monique Van Willingh, Director of Cultural Equity and Belonging at New England Conservatory | Panelists: Aja Burrell Wood, Managing Director for Berklee College’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice; Beth Lundell Garver, Dean and Faculty of Practice; Director of Applied Learning at Boston Architectural College; Krystal Livingston, Regional Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at Emerson College; Tyrone Sutton, Assistant Head of School at Boston Arts Academy | Description: This panel will explore how COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted students along the lines of race, the ways in which faculty members' teaching methodologies have permanently shifted, and how the pandemic has impacted the way in which students and faculty approach the arts as a career path.

Faculty can register to attend using the embedded links above; please register out using your faculty email address. For issues accessing our events calendar, please email info@proarts.org.