When:
Thursday, May 26, 2022
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Where: Studio 3, 617C Grove Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Audience: Student - Graduate Students
Contact:
Multicultural Student Affairs
(847) 467-6200
Group: Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA)
Category: Multicultural & Diversity
Join MSA at Studio 3 for a conversation with Melissa Raman Molitor on creating collective power through art, and to claim space in our communities with our stories, traditional practices, and cultural wisdom.
Melissa is an artist, educator, and activist whose socially engaged practice creates liminal spaces in which art is a form of critical consciousness and healing justice. Her work involves the exploration of personal and collective identity through assemblage and multimedia narratives, and centers art as a way to foster human connection, creative placemaking, community care and social change. Her work on the Kitchen Table Stories Project embodies her philosophy and pedagogy employing art as a powerful medium for decentering dominant colonial narratives and uplifting the voices and stories of Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander American (ASPA) communities. Melissa is an Associate Professor, Adj. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and holds a BA in Psychology and a BFA with a concentration in ceramics and photography from the University of Michigan. She received an MA in Art Therapy from SAIC and is a registered, board-certified art therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor.