BONUS FLYY CHAT!!
A Conversation on Afrofuturism and Culturally Situated Arts Based Learning
w/ Dr. Nettrice Gaskins
Monday, November 9th @ 8pm on Twitter!!
Ok, so I know that I originally said that Flyychats would happen once a month, but when you get the opportunity to be in conversation with Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, you bend the rules!
Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, STEAM education lab director at Boston Arts Academy, is the teacher I wish I had in high school. The science teachers I encountered seemed to take pride in making the sciences as foreign and unrelated to me as possible. The message I received from them was that the sciences were for the exceptionally gifted students. I should just stay awake and pray for a "C".
I was introduced to Dr. Gaskins' work a couple of years ago when she presented her work via Skype at DreamYard Art Center's professional development series, the Social Justice Pedagogy Team. During her presentation, I learned that my interest in and love for the history, music, art, dance and scholarship of the African diaspora centered me in an interest and love in STEAM (Science, Technology, Art and Math)! I learned how Grandmaster Flash was an inventor, having created the first crossfader using parts from a junkyard in the Bronx. Talk about education for liberation! We DO this!!
So please join us on Monday November 9th, where will explore Afrofuturism and how "culturally situated art based learning" is practiced in creative communities of color.
Bio Detailing All the Flyyness
NETTRICE
GASKINS, Ph.D. was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She majored in
Visual Art at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, KY. She earned a
BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and a
MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago in 1994. She worked for several years in K-12 and post-secondary
education, community media and technology before enrolling at Georgia
Tech where she received a doctorate in Digital Media in 2014. Her model
for ‘techno-vernacular creativity’ is an area of practice that
investigates the characteristics of this production and its application
in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). When
she is not advancing interdisciplinary education, Ms. Gaskins blogs for
Art21, the producer of the Peabody award-winning PBS series, Art in
the Twenty-First Century and publishes articles and essays about topics
such as Afrofuturism and Ghost Nature. Her essay was included in Meet Me
at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader published by ETC Press.
Learn more about Dr. Gaskins work! Check out these links!
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