~~~~~~ SL Art Educator Series ~~~~~
#1 January 22  (Friday) @ 8pm CST
Mary Stokrocki & Sandra Andrews will present "Empowering the Disenfranchised Through Art: Explorations in Building Sites and Futures in Second Life".

#2 February 19 (Friday) @ 8pm CST
Karen Keifer-Boyd will present "Body<self-referential organization>Landmark: Limit-case Movements in Art Education". 
 
Working with the poststructural culture theories of Brian Massumi (2002) and Elizabeth Ellsworth (2005, 2007, 2009), this presentation concerns movement, affect, and sensation in the self-referential organization of the body and landmark in Second Life in search of "limit-cases" as art education. Ellsworth & Kruse's limit-case postcards from their 28-day travels in southwestern United States are at http://www.polarinertia.com/aug07/limit01.htm. They define limit-case as "intense points where natural and built forces mutually contaminate as they play out to their most extreme forms, levels, and junctures"  (Ellsworth & Kruse, 2007, p3).

#3 March 19 (Friday) @ 8pm CST
Stephen Carpenter will present “Real World Reflections on Virtual World Instruction: (Re)Thinking Distance Education, Pedagogy, and Visual Culture”.

#4 May 14 (Friday) @ 8pm CST
Lilly Lu will present “Exploring SL Art: A Virtual Field Trip”

~~~~~~ NIU Student SL Project Exhibits ~~~~~~
Art Education students at Northern Illinois University will host three events to exhibit their SL projects in a technology course taught by Lilly Lu.
#5 April 2 (Friday) @ 8pm CST
#6 April 9 (Friday) @ 8pm CST
#7 May 6 (Thursday)@ 8pm CST

These events are free!!! To allow us to provide you with a great Art Café experience by managing the number of participants, please register in advance by sending an email to art.cafe.sl@gmail.com. In the email, indicate the event # you would like to attend. The instructions and specific SLurls for the events will be sent to you.