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Spring 2025 DICP Learning Initiative
February 3, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST
Liberatory Practices through Art: Using Zines to Interrogate our Educator Identity
Zines are intended to capture ideas and stories creatively, often not captured through empirical publishing outlets. This community space invites participants to re-conceptualize the self by inviting individuals to bring copies of published works, pictures, assignments or any print work that reflects who they are or are working to become. Guided through dialogue and reflection, participants will use their materials with provided supplies to create a zine more broadly reflective of their story and journey in the College of Education and at Michigan State University. While this space focuses on exploring educator identities, it is open to anyone interested in sharing their story.
Biography: Olivia Furman, Ph. D. (they/them) is a Black non-binary womanist artist, educator and researcher. Their work explores the significance of engaging culturally informed literacies of dreaming, journaling, storytelling and the arts within conceptualizations and practice of liberatory teaching, learning and research. Their primary mediums include multimedia and digital collage, ceramics, quilting and the written and spoken word. Liv is also an avid gardener, skater, singer, musician and yoga apprentice