Promise Friday Airhumwude will be delivering a presentation for the African Art and Craft Practitioners Association entitled, The Great Bini Bronzes Casting. The Bini (or Benin) Bronzes are a group of more than a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Bini (Benin) in what is now modern-day Nigeria. Collectively, the objects form…
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Featured Presenter – CArtsCon 2021 – Tom Cleary
Radio broadcaster, writer, and maker of comics Tom Cleary is a veteran CArtsCon Presenter. Here’s more about Tom, in his own words: “It may sound like a cliché, but I have been making comics and radio shows since I was a tot. As a child, I would make up my own comic characters and often staple together…
Featured Presenter – CArtsCon 2021 – Dr. Nanyoung Kim
Dr. Nanyoung Kim Dr. Nanyoung Kim received her Master’s and Doctorate degree in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to the US to study art education, she received a Bachelor’s degree in Music (piano) and a Master’s degree in Aesthetics, both from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and taught music…
Featured Presenter CArtsCon 2021 – Pamela Hatton
Dr. Pamela Hatton has spent all her working life in health care. Apart from her general practice work covering all aspects of individual behaviours and functioning, her main areas of focus have been on self-image, domestic violence, gender confidence, and inappropriate behaviours in the workplace. To date, her written work has focused mainly on standards…
Featured Presenter CArtsCon 2021: Katherine Mickle
Katherine Mickle is an Associate Professor of Art at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania where she teaches all levels of Photography and intermittently teaches Drawing and 2D Design. Katherine creates work that often combines imagery in order to create multi-layered, personal, and social meaning. She is keenly interested in perception and language. Her current research…
Featured Presenter CArtsCon 2021: Ayo Adewunmi
Ayo Adewunmi (Ph.D), has taught art and photography at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu since 1991. He studied art at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria, where he obtained a BA degree in Industrial Design, in 1991. He has MFA in Painting and Ph.D in Art History from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,…
Featured Presenter for CArtsCon 2021: Dr. Jill Kiefer
Conference Co-Director Dr. Jill Kiefer will be presenting two programs at CArtsCon 2020. “Building Bridges from the Past to the Present: An Art Historical Journey” will be a presentation focused on how modern masters learned from the great artists who preceded them, revealing a bridge that extends from the most distant past to the present….
Workshop Presenter CArtsCon 2021: Julie Flower
Julie Flower is a leadership and team development consultant, facilitator and coach with a special interest in enabling people to work creatively and adaptably within complex systems. Her work draws on evidence-based theories and approaches, including from organisational psychology and behavioural science. She is also an improvised comedy performer and regularly performs internationally, including with…
Featured Presenter CArtsCon 2021: Barrister Ogueche Ire Chinasa
Ire Ogueche Chinasa Barrister Ogueche Ire Chinasa was born in Adaba in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. He studied Painting at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu. He also studied law at the University of Nigeria (UNN) and was called to Nigerian Bar as solicitor and advocate of the…
E-Conference Presenter: Victor Matthews
Dr Victor Matthews has a great interest in creative writing. His earliest work was a poem entitled The Rose (written when he was five-years-old) and his most recent work—written forty-two years later—is a look at Angels in a “new” sub-genre of Fantasy Fiction that is Biblically sound. In Victor’s world–all roads lead to Theology. Victor holds…