Lavender Lunch with artist and UAA faculty member Tom Chung - Sept. 18, 2015
by Michelle Saport |
Friday, Sept. 18, 12-1 p.m. Student Union, Lyla Richards Conference Room
UAA SafeZone invites you to attend the first Lavender Lunch of the 2015-16 academic year. This special edition of Lavender Lunch features artist and UAA faculty member Tom Chung, who received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and his Master's of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2013. He has participated in numerous group and solo shows throughout the United States. His multidisciplinary work has been written about in Art in America, The New Yorker, and Modern Painters Magazine. In 2013, he was the first art student in Yale University's history to receive the University-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize for "poetic, literary, or religious scholarship," for his graduate dissertation.
Influenced largely by his education and interest in cultural anthropology, Tom Chung has conducted field work around the world: most recently receiving the Yale University Schoelkopf Travel Grant to live with and study isolated indigenous tribes in the Amazon Basin. He has taught art at a wide variety of institutions (including the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Yale University, Alaska Creative Ceramics) and as a volunteer drawing instructor at the NYU Tisch Psychiatric Ward and the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. We hope you'll join us for his presentation.
UAA's SafeZone is a campus-wide program designed to increase the overall campus community's understanding and awareness of issues faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, allies (GLBTQA+) and other marginalized persons. We offer a visible message of inclusion, support and advocacy through two-hour Ally trainings, which take participants through a variety of activities aimed at expanding horizons and cultivating thoughts. Ally trainings help participants examine their thoughts and views while prepping them to become better allies for the GLBTQA+ community. Chung says that the struggle of gay youth has always been a cause close to his heart, and his experience as a gay person has been a large part of his artwork.
UAA SafeZone open meetings and Lavender Lunches occur each occur once monthly.
For more information about the SafeZone program and upcoming events, please contact (907) 751-SFZN (7936) or e-mail SafeZone@uaa.alaska.edu. Follow SafeZone on Facebook for a complete list of event details and updates.
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