IVLA 2007 Brazil
otober 10th to 13th curitiba
39th annual conference of the international visual literacy association
visual literacy beyond frontiers: information, culture and diversity
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Activities

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Tuesday, October 6 (morning)

Chicago: Open Air Museum (Guided Walking Tour and Public Transportation)

Pre-conference Activity


This optional pre-conference walking tour will familiarize IVLA conference participants with Chicago’s beautiful downtown area. We will visit several public art attractions, architectural landmarks, and take a ride on Chicago's public transport system also known as the L (please bring $3.00 per ticket). The aim is to provide an overview of these attractions and the city for those new to Chicago . This tour will take approximately 2:30 hours (including a 45 min lunch break at Navy Pier. Participants are responsible for their own meals). We will leave from the Seneca Hotel at 10.00am. Please remember to wear comfortable shoes.

Meet at the lobby of the Seneca Hotel at 9.30 am.
Leave Seneca Hotel at 10.00 am
Facilitators: Noreen Powers and Petronio Bendito

Stockyard Institute Sponsored Event (Guided Walking Tour)

Pre-conference Activity


Join Jim Duignan and guests on a guided walking tour of the historic Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park. The tour will feature a variety of sites from public sculpture to historic pathways and event markers. Included is the mural of the Chicago Public Art Group, the University of Chicago, the Woodlawn neighborhood, the site of the several local and national treasures, and the Experimental Station. Participants will be responsible for their own lunch.

Meet at the lobby of the Seneca Hotel at 9.30 am.
Leave Seneca Hotel at 10.00 am

Facilitator: Jim Duignan

Wednesday, October 7 (evening)

Cocktail at John Hancock’s Signature Lounge

Come join us for a Cocktail Reception at John Hancock’s Signature Lounge (96th Floor). Meet at the lobby of the Seneca Hotel at 8.00pm OR come directly to the Signature Lounge after 8.15pm to meet the IVLA group! Admission to the building is free but attendees will buy their own drinks.

Thursday, October 8 (afternoon)

Chicago Art Institute- Gallery Tour and Luncheon Lecture

Impressionism is one of the most widely discussed yet commonly misunderstood artistic movements in Western art. It is really not a movement in the traditional art historical sense; rather, it is a brief period in the carriers of a group of artists who came to be known as Impressionists through their participation in eight cooperative exhibitions from 1874 to 1886 in Paris, and who shared an outlook on the making of art. They all wanted to reconstruct their modern world according to an agreed upon pictorial language that would revolutionize modern art. And they were all brought together by their rejection of styles and subjects promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts and the famous Salon exhibitions of their time. Each artist, however, developed a “personal” style by experimenting with distinctive gestures and colors, by choosing sometimes very different subject matter, and by creating highly original compositions.

In my presentation, I will discuss six paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Impressionist collection which embody the “personal” style of six core members of the Impressionist group: Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Berthe Morisot (1841-95), and Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94). I will offer a historical description of the practice of French Impressionists and I will discuss how each painting reflects the artist’s totally subjective field of vision. This expression of subjective individuality demonstrates the shifting artistic interests of Impressionists and offers insight into why these artists never compromised the autonomy of their personal vision to develop an artistic program for a new school of painting.

We will meet at 11.45 am at the Richardson Library (Dorothy Day Room 400) to have lunch and attend the presentation. After the presentation, we will be visiting the Art Institute of Chicago to take a closer look at the paintings discussed. Attendees will be responsible for brining their own lunch, and buying their museum tickets.

Anita Skarpathiotis has taught Art History at the Illinois Institute of Art at Chicago from 1995 to 2005. She currently teaches Modern Greek Language Arts at University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a M.A. in Art History from UIC and a M.A. in Architecture from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Thursday, October 8 (evening)

Pedagogical Factory - Cheese and Wine Reception at the Hyde Park Art Gallery


The Stockyard institute is a collaborative artist project in Chicago that explores and designs ideas in and around pedagogy, learning and living in the city. They have spent years working alongside DePaul University students, faculty, and alumni, artist collectives, city organizations, and cultural institutions in various forms of partnerships to ensure better opportunities for the young people they work with. The Stockyard Institute focuses much of their attention towards the lives of the most under served adolescents, building cooperative, investigative projects that originate from the contributors experiences and questions.

The Pedagogical Factory has been the most ambitious project to date for the Stockyard Institute. It was organized as an open demonstration of ideas and experimentations, taking place in and around the Hyde Park Art Center which was used as a temporary public laboratory in Chicago. The Stockyard Institute designed, solicited and compiled proposals and projects from a wide range of individuals, groups, producers and organizations to initiate forums at the intersection of arts, education and activism. Pedagogical Factory highlighted recent developments in critical education and social art practices, as well as establishing the conditions to question the relationship between contemporary life in the city and learning.

IVLA delegates will meet at the Student Center (DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus) at 6.00pm to be shuttled to the Hyde Park Art Center to attend a presentation of the Pedagogical Factory in situ, followed by informal discussion during cheese and wine reception. Transportation, admission and reception are sponsored by the Center for Educational Technology and Excellence in e-Learning, Teaching and Research (CEeLTRET) of the School of Education, DePaul University.

Jim Duignan is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at DePaul University, the Chair of the Visual Arts Education Program in the School of Education, and the Founder of the Stockyard Institute www.stockyardinstitute.org