Comm/Fine Arts

Departmental News
Michelle Kraft, Karen Keifer-Boyd (Penn State), and Veronica Hicks (doctoral candidate, Penn State) presented a webinar, “Drawing on Disability: Comics Including Difference,” for the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and VSA Arts on Tuesday, September 22. The webinar was recorded and is available to teachers as a free resource on the Kennedy Center website at http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa/resources/webinars.cfm

For that reason, Michelle made sure to mention Lubbock Christian University in the webinar. 

Michelle also served as a reviewer for next season’s Kennedy Center webinar proposals.

Michelle has been invited to serve as a visiting lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos on Wednesday, September 30. There, she will deliver three lectures to Education and Art Education majors on the topic of including students with disabilities in art.

Michelle and her book co-author Karen Keifer-Boyd were also invited to serve as contributing authors for an upcoming book proposal. The volume, entitled Contemporary Art and Culture in Disability Studies, is under consideration with Syracuse University Press as part of their Critical Perspectives on Disability series. Alice Wexler (retired, SUNY-New Paltz) and John Derby (University of Kansas) are editors.

Michelle, Karen Keifer-Boyd, and Alice Wexler presented “Inclusion Matters: Are You Sure You Belong Here?” at the 2015 Intersections Conference, sponsored by the Kennedy Center and VSA Arts. The conference was held in Alexandria, VA, in August.

Michelle and Laurie Doyle led a tour of sixteen LCU alumni and friends of the university on a tour of Vienna, Austria, August 5-15.