Technology, Social Justice, and the Changing Workplace: Lessons from the Arts
Technology, Social Justice, and the Changing Workplace: Lessons from the Arts
Arts organizations are on the cutting edge of technology and social justice issues and the lessons from these organizations can inform all workplaces. Arts for All is a new Presidential initiative connecting the arts with the sciences, technology and other disciplines. This Arts For All sponsored session will address how technology and social justice are changing organizations and industries featuring alumni in the Arts. Moderated by Patrick Warfield, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities.
Panelists:
Kelly Colburn '18 MFA Theatre | Artistic Lead, Flying V Theater
Tuliza Fleming '97 MA, '07 Ph.D. Art History | Interim Chief Curator of Visual Arts, National Museum of African American History & Culture
Ceylon Mitchell '16 MM Music | Flutist and Co-Owner, M3 | Mitchell Media & Marketing
Panelist Bios:
Kelly Colburn is DC-based multi-disciplinary artist working as a producer, director, designer, and deviser for live performance. She serves as the Artistic Lead for Theatre at Flying V and the Digital Producer for Theater Alliance. As a director and devised performance maker, she creates athletic and thought-provoking experimental work that explores themes of displacement, home, forced experience, and identity. As a projections and multimedia designer she explores how we engage, ignore, enhance, and remember our personal and shared history. She is a DCCAH Fellowship Awardee, Helen Hayes Awardee, 2017-2018 NextLOOK Resident and 2018 Jim Henson Puppetry Grantee. BFA NYU Tisch ’11; MFA UMD ’18. View LinkedIn.
Dr. Tuliza Fleming is the Interim Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the American Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. During her tenure at the NMAAHC, she built the museum’s foundational American art collection, supervised the creation of a collection-based multi-media interactive, co-curated a traveling exhibition, and served as the lead curator for the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Visual Art and the American Experience. Formerly, Dr. Fleming served as Associate Curator of American Art at The Dayton Art Institute. Since 1996, Dr. Fleming curated over 20 exhibitions and worked and/or consulted for a variety of museums and cultural institutions. View LinkedIn.
Ceylon Mitchell II is a contemporary classical flutist, educator, and entrepreneur on a mission to celebrate Black and Latinx voices in music. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, he is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts student at the University of Maryland in Flute Performance where he has also received a Master of Music and Graduate Certificate in Multimedia Journalism. Ceylon also supports performing artists and arts organizations with personalized multimedia production and digital marketing consulting as the founder and co-owner of M3 | Mitchell Media & Marketing. Recent achievements include the Strathmore Artist in Residence Class of 2021, a Prince George’s County Forty UNDER 40 Award in Arts & Humanities, and a 2021 Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council Artist Fellowship Grant. View LinkedIn.
Patrick Warfield, Ph.D., is a musicologist and specialist in American musical culture. He is the Associate Dean for Arts and Programming in the College of Arts and Humanities and leads a university-wide initiative, Arts For All. His current research focuses on music in Washington, D.C., during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a special interest in the American wind band tradition. Warfield was a founding member of the editorial board of "The Journal of Music History Pedagogy," and is especially interested in the teaching of American popular music, including rock, jazz and the blues.