On Saturday, June 13, the MFA Class of 2020 offered their Virtual Summary Project Presentations. Through applied research methods, each Summary Project is a culmination of a student's inquiry into an arts field of practice. Projects serve as a representation of students' pursuit of arts leadership through an intersectional lens towards equity, empathy, and value.
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| Creativity, Audience, and Place | |||
| 8:45am | Katrina Fasulo | Welcome Opera Under Reconstruction: Strategic Responses for Audience Engagement in 2020 |
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| 9:30am | Grace Lansing | Centering Cultural Value: Contextualizing the Development of a Cultural Arts Plan for the City of Tumwater |
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| 10:00am | Leah Erickson Webster | Viral Sensations: American Neo-Burlesque Re-Explored in a Hotspot |
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| 10:30am | Erin Burrows | Building on a Proud Tradition: Mapping Cultural Histories and Artist Networks in Bremerton, WA |
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| 11:00am | Break | ||
| Arts Policy, (In)Equities, and Growth | |||
| 11:15am | Tyson Walker | Rethinking STE[Arts]M Through Creative Placemaking: A Strategic Growth Strategy for a More Viable Future |
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| 11:45am | Rachel Ballister | Inequity in the Arts: The Democratization of Culture in Tax-exemption Policy |
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| 12:15pm | Lunch | ||
| Aesthetic Engagement Across the Rural and Urban | |||
| 1:00pm | Paige Petrangelo | A New Seattle Sound: How Community Investment in Touring Music Can Incite Sustainability Through Reciprocity |
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| 1:30pm | Andrea Ashton | Public Works: Extending the Locale Through Communities of Practice |
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| 2:00pm | Kaelyn McGowen | Nevada Neon Nights: The Story of the Neon Bender and the Impact of Neon in Public Space |
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| 2:30pm | Megan Torgerson | Reframing Rural: Rewriting the Narrative on Rural America Through Oral Storytelling |
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| 3:00pm | Break | ||
| Ethnographic Explorations: On Leadership and Possibilities | |||
| 3:15pm | Megan Dung | Keep HEARTS Beating: Unpacking Founder's Syndrome in Modern Day Hawaii |
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| 3:45pm | Sadiqua Iman | We Were Made for This: Black Women Reshaping American Theatre |
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| 4:15pm | Linnea Ingalls | Visceral & Virtual: Tensions of Grief and Discovery in Embodied Arts of the COVID-19 Era Closing |
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