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• Jake Webster Installation (5)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• Jake Webster Installation (4)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• Jake Webster Installation (3)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• Jake Webster Installation (2)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• Jake Webster Installation (1)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• AI Talk (1)
  Dr. Megan Zwart presenting on Nov. 9 2023
• Jake Webster
  Jake Webster, sculptor, mixed media artist, and spoken word performer. My work speaks about my community and the environment in which I live. I use the tradition of direct carving in wood and stone and apply a contemporary attitude by creating art with whatever is at hand to tell a story. On August 10, 2015, I was featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary “Dreaming in Public”. It was aired on PBS. The documentary was produced by Grass Roots Media. The film is about making a living as artists in the midwest. I always begin my sculpting process by writing poetry. Poetry is the fastest way for me to get an idea from my head to paper. Now that I got the idea down on paper, the sculpting begins. As a child growing up in Mississippi before I learned to draw and paint, I would sit up and cry because so much was happening around me and nobody was recording it, so I would write it down knowing that one day I was going to learn how to MAKE ART. When you come to view my sculptures and to listen to my poetry there are two things you must know, “Art is never anything you want it to be” always ask questions and “beauty is never in the eye of the beholder” always ask questions.
• Physical Maquettes Displayed
  Display in Moreau Gallery of maquettes created for Curatorial Studies, Fall 2022.
• Physical Maquette (3)
  Physical model of maquette created for Curatorial Studies, Fall 2022.
• Physical Maquette (2)
  Physical model of maquette created for Curatorial Studies, Fall 2022.
• Physical Maquette (1)
  Physical model of maquette created for Curatorial Studies, Fall 2022.
• Sue Wiegand
  Sue Wiegand is the Periodicals Librarian at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. As liaison to the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Studies, Justice Education, and Social Work and Gerontology, she also provides library instruction and collection development in collaboration with classroom faculty, and researches the integration of library and classroom learning. Sue has a B.S. in Biology from Purdue University, and an M.L.S. in Library Science from Indiana University. A longtime Choice reviewer, Sue has also published in The Serials Librarian and other venues, and was co-chair of the 2017 NASIG conference for Serials Librarians.
• Eric Walerko
  Eric is the current College Archivist for Saint Mary's College. As the Archivist, he collects, describes, and makes available historical resources pertaining to the College's history and the identity/mission of its community. Maintaining the permanent records of the college for accountability and as an important research tool is the core of Eric's responsibilities. His involvement in the CIC grant project has been primarily a support role. The College Archive contributed scanning tools for the researchers as well as provided advice for digitization standards and metadata creation.
• Dr. Megan Zwart
  Dr. Zwart teaches classes in the history of philosophy, ethics, and applied ethics. Her research argues that philosophy should be accessible to all, and widely practiced in its most ancient form: as a transformative way of life in which intellectual and practical exercises help one pursue consistency between her beliefs and her actions. In the classroom, she models this approach to philosophy in experiential learning classes, including Medical Ethics, Social Justice (a class on the ethics of food production and distribution), and Dialogue and Civil Discourse (a course that equips students to engage with others across ideological difference). Dr. Zwart is the founding director of The Dialogue Project at Saint Mary's and directs Dialogue and Democracy, a summer academic institute for high school girls.
• Dr. Jennifer Zachman
  Dr. Zachman holds a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and specializes in 19th- and 20th- century Spanish Literature.
• Dr. Sally Geislar
  Dr. Geislar is an interdisciplinary scholar with training as a social scientist. She uses theories and concepts from social sciences to investigate the environmental sustainability and social equity of policy outcomes. She employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to answer questions at the intersection of environmental policy, human behavior, and the built environment.
• Dr. Susan Mancino
  Dr. Mancino is the co-editor of Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation and An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention. Additionally, she is the author/coauthor of ten articles and nine book chapters. Her works have appeared in Curator: The Museum Journal, Versus, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, Review of Communication, Communication Research Trends, and Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. She is the recipient of the 2015 Applied Urban Communication Research Grant. Her research interests include public memory, semiotics, philosophy of communication, and communication ethics.
• Dr. Tiffany Johnson Bidler
  Dr. Bidler is a specialist in contemporary art and critical theory and American art and material culture. Her research focuses on topics such as suicide, inheritance, color, olfaction, and ornament with attention to questions of race and gender. She teaches a global art history survey and courses in modern art, contemporary art, performance, and film.
• Dr. Chris Wedrychowicz (Co-Program Coordinator)
  Dr. Wedrychowicz is a mathematician whose area of expertise is Analysis. For the last five years he has worked under a grant from the Lily Foundation supporting Saint Mary’s Master’s degree program in Data Science. He is a Co-PI on the iTReDS program grant funded by the NSF, which seeks to engage undergraduate students in applying data science to social problems.
• The LGBTQ Center
  The LGBTQ Center is Northern Indiana's only Center dedicated to the promotion of LGBTQ+ experiences and inclusivity. Our purpose is to see a community where every individual is valued, respected, and empowered. The LGBTQ Center offers diversity training, social groups, support groups, and more. We are also proud to offer a resource guide of affirming and accepting vendors, businesses, and social services. We are always looking for new ways to empower our community and to educate.
• Listening to Pandemic Narratives Podcast Episode
  People's stories recorded from the Oral History Collection of the Civil Rights Heritage Center at the Indiana University South Bend Archives. Telling the history of the civil rights movement and the experiences of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples in South Bend, Indiana
• Dr. Julia Dauer
  Dr. Dauer teaches and writes about American literature before 1900. Her research and teaching draw on the environmental and health humanities and the history of science in the Atlantic World. Dr. Dauer's classes often focus on race, gender, sexuality, and ideas about the natural world, and she also teaches classes about literature and medicine. She is currently working on a book project examining the ways first-person prose governs the division between human and nonhuman in American literature around 1800. Her public humanities work focuses on the collection of oral histories, and a recent project focused on Covid-19 pandemic experiences has been funded by Indiana Humanities and the Council of Independent Colleges.
• Dr. Jamie Wagman
  Dr. Wagman is teaches courses on U.S. Histories of Sexuality, Feminist Theory, and African-American History since Reconstruction. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies and a Gender Studies graduate certificate from Saint Louis University, and an M.A. in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. She has been a Fulbright Specialist at the International University of Rabat, an NEH Summer Scholar, and an Indiana Humanities Suffrage Speakers Bureau historian. She recently co-organized a summer institute on using inclusive primary sources, funded by a Library of Congress grant. Her oral history projects have been funded by Indiana Humanities and the Council of Independent Colleges.
• Covid-19 Oral Histories Listening Session, Oct. 3, 2022
  Dr. Jamie Wagman and Dr. Julia Dauer at the listening session
• Ian Weaver
  Ian Weaver is an Associate Professor of Art at Saint Mary's College. He has an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St Louis. His work has been exhibited at The Chicago Cultural Center (2015), the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA, 2014); Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO (2009-10); and Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL (2010). He has been a recipient of numerous residencies, and has received awards and grants from Artadia and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, both based in NY, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL.