Art for Social Change: Beverly Naidus

Join the Kirkland Arts Center and KBCS 91.3 in welcoming Beverly Naidus presenting a talk titled: “A Bright Orange Life Jacket, A Beacon and a Promise of a Feast:  Socially Engaged Art in Difficult Times”

This talk will explore how art for social change can transform, heal and activate individuals and communities. It will look at examples of work that have been beacons for me, my peers, and my students. It will demonstrate how everyone’s creativity is needed in this time, and that if we come together to collaborate, it will truly be nourishing and help us be resilient in this time. 

About Beverly 

Best known for her interactive installations, photo/text work, narrative drawings and artist’s books, Beverly Naidus’s work emerges from lived, observed, and researched experiences. Topics she has addressed include environmental illness, unemployment, racism, gentrification, homelessness, body hate, and mass extinctions, as well as possibilities for healing all of those challenges. Her work has been written about in many books and journals and has developed an international audience. She has just returned from the UK where her interactive installation, “We Almost Didn’t Make It” was on display at ONCA Gallery.   

After successful chapters in New York City and Los Angeles, Naidus moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2003. As an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at UW Tacoma, she facilitates an innovative program in art for social change and healing. Her pedagogical approach has been influenced by Paolo Freire, Augusto Boal, bell hooks, Joanna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh, and the Institute for Social Ecology.  She authored the book, Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame and many other essays about her art and teaching. She facilitates the Facebook page, Arts for Change, with over 5700 participants. Her website is www.beverlynaidus.net

RSVP required. $10 suggested donation, please use ticket link below. Doors open at 6:30pm. Beverages available for purchase. Free parking is available.