Shawna Hanel Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel Recent documents in Shawna Hanel en-us Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:35:39 PDT 3600 Impact: The Legacy of Art Educator Jane Wilson http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/6 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/6 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:41:00 PDT Art education is about developing visual literacy in a multi-cultural, multi-media world and empowering people to bring their analytic ideas into synthetic form. This process of creating teaches patience, endurance, respect for materials, and adds to our feeling of usefulness and security. Learning to form makes us understand all forming; this is the fundamental knowing.

Jane Wilson, art educator at Bishop Kelly High School for thirty-three years, was committed to teaching visual literacy, creativity and skills for fundamental knowing. She taught thousands of students throughout her career, planting seeds in their lives, opening them to growth in self-awareness, self-expression, and self-confidence.

Mrs. Wilson’s impact is profound. Inspired by her teaching and her example, hundreds of her students have gone on to become professional artists, designers, architects, and educators. Hundreds more still have a deep love of making and looking at art and participate in these interests whenever they can, recognizing the enrichment it adds to their lives.

For this exhibition, we have invited art and design professionals to contribute their work to a visual arts show highlighting and celebrating the life, work and impact of Jane Wilson. We will also be including artwork completed by Jane Wilson, herself. The second goal of the show is to serve as a tangible example of the unquestionably, invaluable role of a quality art education program, and the profound impact such a program can have on a teacher, her individual students, a city, such as Boise, and the world.

]]> Shawna Hanel et al. Impact: The Legacy of Art Educator Jane Wilson Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/5 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/5 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:29:56 PST Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.

]]> Shawna Hanel Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/4 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/4 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:53 PST Invisible Hands follows the flow of oil, through a terrain afflicted by the overwhelming production and consumption of superfluous goods. At the end of this viscous river, one finds in our invisible hands, a planet littered with petroleum by-products, the ubiquitous plastics our world is awash with.

]]> Shawna Hanel As Long As You Think You're White... Invisible Hands: American Hypocrisy, Global Consumer Complicity and Actions for a Better Future As Long As You Think You're White... http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/3 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/3 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:24:09 PST This body of work encourages white people to recognize that their histories, perspectives, and experiences are not those of humanity, but rather those of white humanity; while simultaneously exposing the falsity of inherent whiteness. In other words, the exhibit and web site provide a space for white people to perceive their whiteness in the contexts of socialization, material culture, and economic location; and then to begin to disavow it within their attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Recognizing and disavowing whiteness concurrently may appear contradictory. Both are strategies necessary for the creation of white identities capable of acknowledging the gross historical injustices carried out in their names and accepting ongoing culpability in the maintenance of historical inequalities, without becoming paralyzed by guilt.

]]> Shawna Hanel As Long As You Think You're White... http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/1 http://works.bepress.com/shawna_hanel/1 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:47:30 PST This body of work encourages white people to recognize that their histories, perspectives, and experiences are not those of humanity, but rather those of white humanity; while simultaneously exposing the falsity of inherent whiteness. In other words, the exhibit, paper and web site provide a space for white people to perceive their whiteness in the contexts of socialization, material culture, and economic location; and then to begin to disavow it within their attitudes, behaviors, and identities. Recognizing and disavowing whiteness concurrently may appear contradictory. Both are strategies necessary for the creation of white identities capable of acknowledging the gross historical injustices carried out in their names and accepting ongoing culpability in the maintenance of historical inequalities, without becoming paralyzed by guilt.

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