Attention: Faculty, Academic Staff, and Graduate Students
April 10, 2025
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. | Zoom
Interested in learning how to create new arts and cultural community-engaged partnerships? Are you new to using creative activities for community-engaged social change? This workshop will introduce you to faculty colleagues and their community partners who have created equitable partnerships with impact. The teams will each explain: the project origins, mutually beneficial outcomes, lessons learned, strategies for sustainable collaboration, and unexpected outcomes.
Attendees will learn the basics of community-engaged research, including definitions, partnership building, and community engagement practices. Presenters will also learn how they share their research experience in publications, presentations, performances, exhibitions, digital formats, etc. Participants will also be able to join a growing network of campus colleagues who are leading creative and innovative arts and cultural community-engaged partnerships.
Presenters
Jessica Barnes Najor, Ph.D.
Director for Community Partnerships, Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship
University Outreach and Engagement
Heather Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
College of Social Science
Kevin Leonard
Director, Native American Institute
University Outreach and Engagement
Moderator
C. Kurt Dewhurst, Ph.D.
Director for Arts and Cultural Initiatives, Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship
University Outreach and Engagement
Director Emeritus and Curator of Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Michigan State University Museum
Professor, Department of English
College of Arts and Letters
Sponsored by: Native American Institute and Office for Public Engagement and Scholarship
