For the past two years, Wesleyan College students have worked with the help of faculty and staff to develop a discussion-based peer-to-peer program. The Diversity and Inclusion Discussions (DID) aims to empower students to become agents of change through civil discourse. On April 6, 2018, a group of students and faculty members will share their experiences in a session … Read more »
IF Fellow Dr. Natalie Hopkinson was invited to deliver the Republic Lecture by the government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on Feb. 22, 2018 on the role of the creative arts in citizenship. She was also invited to launch her new book, “A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents and the Art … Read more »
A Mouth is Always Muzzled, afrofuturism, art and citizenship, artists and citizenship, Black Panther film, ethnofuturism, Guyana, Khadija Benn, Letitia Wright, Mashramani, Natalie Hopkinson, Sherlina Nageer, Vidya Kissoon
By: Marc Erlbaum, founder of the Common Party Originally posted on Medium and re-posted here with the author’s permission. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, millions of people around the country are both anxious, and anxious to react. The frequency of mass shootings in the U.S. has brought us to a boiling point which … Read more »
In November IF Fellow Ieva Notturno and IF Vice President Jeff Prudhomme delivered a two-day training workshop for twelve young artists at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York City. The trainees are part of the Youth Leadership Council working to develop and convene a Youth Creativity Summit in February 2018. Their ages ranged from … Read more »
Students at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, co-created a second year of successful Diversity and Inclusion Discussions (DID) based on skills they learned from the Interactivity Foundation’s IF Discussion Facilitation Process. This renewed series of discussions built upon students’ interest to take student-facilitated outside of the classroom and into the broader campus community. Tonya Parker, … Read more »
As reported in a recent newsletter, this past summer IF collaborated with Ballotpedia on USATalk’s first real-world pilot project—a fall 2017 voter information initiative in Des Moines, Iowa. That project, was a resounding success. We have now had time to digest its key lessons. The first of these lessons was that we should waste no … Read more »
Who has responsibilities for higher education? What are different ways to envision these responsibilities? Eleven discussion participants came together using the Zoom videoconferencing platform for a mini-series of discussions to explore questions such as these. The goal for these discussions was to develop some of the core questions that might help people look at this … Read more »
The Joan Mitchell Foundation is one of our partners this year. In case you’re wondering, Joan Mitchell was a leading American abstract expressionist painter. The eponymous foundation is based in NYC and it celebrates her legacy in various ways, including educational programs like their Artist in Residence and Emerging Artist Grant programs. As you may … Read more »
Thanks to you all for coming—and thanks especially to Gene Policinski and the Newseum Institute for hosting us today. I’m Jeff Prudhomme, a Fellow and vice president of the Interactivity Foundation. On behalf of the Foundation, I’d like to welcome you to our discussion today. We’re a non-partisan non-profit, based in West Virginia with a … Read more »
