Beyond Beaver: The Independent School Gender Project Symposium (ISGP)

2022 ISGP Symposium

Participants in the 2022 Independent School Gender Project Symposium came to campus on the evening of February 7 to check out the Angela Lorenz Mosaic Exhibition in the Griffin Gallery, hear from the artist, and participate in workshops highlighting how Beaver faculty incorporate gender in their curriculum. The symposium brings together educators from around the country to empower them to advance gender dialogue and equity at work, school, and beyond.


THE WORKSHOPS

FINDING VOICES
Facilitator: Sara Kelley-Mudie
Location: Research Level
About this workshop: We’ll discuss how we can identify the voices that are underrepresented in our curricula and try some different strategies for finding sources that help fill those gaps.

A DISCUSSION OF BAD FEMINIST
Facilitators: Geeta Jain, Whitney Koch
Student Panelists: Rebecca Goodman ’23, Nadya Ansari ’23, Abby González ’22, Emma Davidson ’22, Mila Fields-Zayas ’22
Location: Design Level
About this workshop: Hear students reflect on how gender has been present in the school’s curriculum, the different ways students have expressed their learnings, how they’ve taken the conversation forward in their own lives, and their collective hopes for the future.

INCORPORATING UNDERREPRESENTED STORIES
Facilitator: Jon Greenberg
Location: Board Room
About this workshop: Explore Beaver’s Humanities theme of Identity using the novel Melissa (originally titled “George”), which follows the struggles of a transgender girl’s attempts to establish her new identity.


More about the artist, Angela Lorenz
Visual artist Angela Lorenz (b. USA) resides in New England with annual stays in Bologna, Italy. Her conceptual approach in research-driven art projects fosters data visualization: any artistic process or material is ripe for use to express an idea. Her work centers on material culture, visual culture, and language. Frequent topics include archaeology, architecture, textiles, and literature. The artist infuses humor whenever possible to leaven the tragic nature of lives lived, and as a mnemonic to aid memory. Her watercolors, prints, multiples, and artist’s books live in over 100 public collections in the US and abroad, and have been widely exhibited. She received a B.A. in fine arts and semiotics from Brown University, which included classes at RISD in graphics and glass, and a year at the University of Bologna (DAMS). Lorenz’s work is both in the permanent collections of and has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Portland Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, Houghton Library, The New York Public Library, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and The British Library. Other collections include the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), the Getty, Harvard Art Museums, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Albertina Museum, the Victoria & Albert, the Wits Art Museum, the Kemper Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and Library of Congress. Other exhibitions include MASS MoCA, Tufts University Art Gallery, The Farnsworth Art Museum, Davis & Langdale, Bell Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art, Palazzo Fava, Museo Archeologico di Bologna, and The Yale University Art Gallery.


Learn more about the Sport Garb/led Mosaic Exhibit at the Beaver Griffin Gallery running from February 1 through February 18 here.

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