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Dr. Alison Aune, professor of Art Education, University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) Chrissy Valento, art teacher Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth, MN Aryn Bergsven, art teacher Harbor City International School in Duluth, MN Lisa Fitzpatrick, community climate activist and director of technology labs (UMD) Art Education class students: Deborah, Alec, Kat, Alyssa, Anabelle, Natalie, Taylor, Cassius, Laura, Julia, Lauren, Karli, Sid, Peyton, and Emm (UMD). Youth Participants: local high school and middle school students Kirsten Aune, textile artist Duluth, MN Inga-Lill Newkumet, art teacher Haganässkolan in Älmhult, Sweden |
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Chrissy Valento, middle school art teacher, and her middle school art club students (grades 6-8) visited Alison Aune and her class of art education students at the University of MN-Duluth art department on an after school field trip during April of 2022. We toured the Tweed Museum, and were then introduced to the idea of Textile Cartographies. We started learning how to embroider on recycled linen squares, and talked about ideas around climate change, maps, climate justice, telling stories, expressing ideas, talking about the eARTh, and learning from one another while we worked.
The following week, during another after school art club session, we reviewed the ideas around cartographies, and created new climate squares. This time, we recycled wool sweaters, and needle felted images of landscapes and ideas around being kind to the earth on each square. We loved being a part of this project, and hope it is ‘heard’ around the world! |
Professor Alison Aune
Alison Aune is a professor of art education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1984, her M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and a Ph.D. from Ohio University Athens in 2000. She served as education coordinator at the Tweed Museum of Art from 1991 to 1999 before joining the UMD Department of Art and Design. Aune’s scholarly interests include museum-based teacher training, women artists in history, and Nordic art education. Aune has received numerous artist grants and awards including the Arrowhead Regional George Morrison Artist award, a Minnesota State Creative Artist Grant, Art Educators of Minnesota Higher Educator of the Year and a Fulbright Scholar and Teaching award to Sweden. Aune has published chapters, articles, and on-line instructional resources on art and museum-based learning for children and youth. She has exhibited her artwork in over 80 solo and group exhibitions in the U.S, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Norway, and Denmark and regularly presents guest lectures and art workshops internationally, nationally, and regionally. |