Cardboard cutouts created using a laser cutter.

Laser Cutting in the K-12 Art Classroom

Saturday, February 1, 10:00am - 4:00pm at the ZMA

The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA) invites middle and high school art educators to join us for a day of exploring laser cutting applications for art classrooms. Participants will learn various methods to produce 2D or 3D artwork using digital imagery and a laser cutter. The workshop will explore Adobe Illustrator, Slicer for Fusion 360, and Blender software. Participants will learn various methods to produce 2D or 3D artwork using 2D and 3D digital imagery and a laser cutter. The workshop will explore Adobe Illustrator, Slicer for Fusion 360, and Blender software.

Also included in the workshop is a tour of the ZMA exhibition Annet Couwenberg: Sewing Circles where you will be inspired by the artist’s use of advanced technologies to create compelling and complex sculptural forms. Prior knowledge of Illustrator and access to a laser cutter is helpful but not required.

There is limited capacity for this workshop. To RSVP, please email Elizabeth Thomas at ethom142@kennesaw.edu. 

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Virtual Pop-Up Book Workshop and Artist Lecture with Shawn Sheehy

Friday, February 21, 10:00am - 3:00pm via Zoom

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In this 4-hour virtual workshop renowned book artist Shawn Sheehy will lead attendees through structural basics and advanced techniques for creating pop-up books. Shawn Sheehy has been teaching book arts courses and workshops since 2001. His broadsides and artist book editions have been collected by such prestigious institutions as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, UCLA, and Harvard. Sheehy’s trade pop-up books Welcome to the Neighborwood and Beyond the Sixth Extinction (both mass-market versions of previous artist books) were published by Candlewick and have won numerous awards. Sheehy served as director of The Movable Book Society from 2018 to 2023. He holds an MFA in Book Arts from Columbia College Chicago.

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HERstory: Elizabeth Wilson

Wednesday, March 5, 12:00pm via Zoom

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Fine Arts Manager, The Coca-Cola Company 

Elizabeth Wilson joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2019 and comes with more than 25 years of experience in corporate and non-profit art environments. She began her career at the High Museum of Art and has worked as an Art Consultant, curating art collections for high-end hotels around the world. In her current role as the Fine Arts Manager, her responsibilities range from managing the corporate collection to developing special exhibitions and curating workspaces in both the Atlanta headquarters and abroad. Wilson will speak about her career and curatorial practice. 

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HERstory: Lauren Haynes

Wednesday, March 26, 12:00pm via Zoom

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Head Curator, Governors Island Arts Public Art Program, NY

Lauren Haynes is Head Curator, Governors Island Arts and Vice President at the Trust for Governors Island in New York City. Haynes has held curatorial positions at institutions across the US, including the Queens Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Haynes serves on the board of the Association of Art Museum Curators and on the visiting committee for the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow and a recipient of a 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Award. In 2023, President Joe Biden appointed Haynes to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she currently serves. Lauren Haynes will speak about her work as a curator and within the museum field.   

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Museums as a Catalyst: Conceptualizing Health and Wellbeing

Thursday, March 6, 9:00am - 5:30pm at the ZMA

A convening on advancing health and wellbeing through the arts, artistic collaborations, and aesthetic experiences

Health has been defined as ‘a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. The concept of wellbeing and what it means to be healthy remains deeply relevant to our communities in its concerns of shared trauma, grief, and loss confronted universally over the past several years. Poignant— and timely in response to continuing grim realities and profound global struggles— the proposed convening will highlight the potential of museums to serve as accessible, inclusive spaces for care and creativity, and their ability to offer community to diverse populations through the arts, artistic collaborations, and aesthetic experiences.

Residing within the academic research arena of Kennesaw State University, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is positioned to take a leading role as a catalyst for enacting change within our internal and external communities by providing programming that supports all aspects of mental and physical health and wellness through the lens of the artistic experiences. The ZMA has the potential to serve as a place of transformational change for the community while supporting and enhancing diverse audiences through service activities, experiential learning, leadership, and collaboration. This convening offers a platform to discuss developments in the medical/therapy field and the opportunities for cross-disciplinary programming between the professional disciplines of health care and contemporary art museums, artists and designers, and curators envisioning the future of well-being and recovery, as well as processing personal loss and trauma through the arts and art museum experiences.

Contemplative and impactful interactions with art, both via temporary exhibitions and museum collections, and the opportunities of interdisciplinary work between museum educators, art educators, designers, and medical school partners envisioning meaningful collaborations will be explored. Thus, this forum solicits acknowledgment of diverse voices and highlights the role of each stakeholder as audible in order for expressive content to be relevant and responsive to the populations it serves. This outwardly facing lens seeks and establishes a collaborative viewing of the museum and its inhabited landscapes as shared catalysts.

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Janine Antoni: Artist Lecture

Thursday, March 6, 10:00am at the Stillwell Theater

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Internationally renowned artist Janine Antoni will present the Keynote lecture for the convening titled Museums as a Catalyst: Conceptualizing Health and Wellbeing in person on Thursday, March 6 at 10:00am in the Stillwell Theater in the Wilson Building.


Janine Antoni is a visual artist who was born in Freeport, Bahamas in 1964. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is known for her unusual processes. Her body is both her tool for making and the source from which her meaning arises. Antoni’s early work transformed materials like chocolate and soap, and used everyday activities like bathing, eating, and sleeping as sculptural processes. She carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the senses. In each piece, no matter the medium or image, a conveyed physicality speaks directly to the viewer’s body.
 
Antoni has exhibited at numerous major institutions including documenta14, at the Fridericianum, Kassel, the Venice Beinnale, the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial, the Kwangju Biennial, the Prospect.1 Biennial in New Orleans and the SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Guggenheim Museum, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm; Sammlung Goetz, Munic; AstruoFearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.


Antoni is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Artist Award in 1996, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award in 1998, the New Media Award ICA Boston, the Larry Aldrich Foundation Fellowship in 2011, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011, a 2012 Creative Capital Artist Grant, and Anonymous Was A Woman Grant in 2014. In 2016, Antoni collaborated with Anna Halprin and Stephen Petronio on Ally, an exhibition presented by The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, with major support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Antoni currently resides in New York and is represented by Luhring Augustine, NY, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco.

© Janine Antoni; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photograph by Jose Andres Ramirez. 

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Annett Couwenberg: Windgate Artist-in-Residence Lecture

Wednesday, April 2, 3:30pm at the ZMA

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Annet Couwenberg has pursued ongoing conversations between traditional textile production and digital technologies throughout her art and teaching career— from her early work in the fashion industry, to creating sculptural forms and jacquard weavings, to working with fish fossils and skeletons inspired by her study with a fish scientist as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History. Born in the Netherlands, Couwenberg received MFA degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Syracuse University. She has worked internationally including in Korea, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland and The Netherlands with one-person shows at the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture in MD, Textiel Museum in The Netherlands, Baltimore Museum of Art, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA and the City Gallery, Atlanta, GA. 

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Mindful Drumming

Thursday, April 10, 2:00pm at the ZMA

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Mindful Drumming is an experiential workshop based on the healing power of meditative drumming and mindfulness practices. Both traditions have been used by cultures around the world to help people better attune to themselves and others. Attend this hour-long workshop to learn and experience how drumming and mindfulness can help you relax, feel more alive, and even reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Instruments will be provided, and no musical experience is required.

  • This workshop will be led by Greg Stevens, a Licensed Psychologist and the Associate Director of Clinical Services at the Kennesaw State University Counseling and Psychological Services. Before training as a psychologist, Greg performed as a musician for over a decade. During his doctoral training, he had the unique opportunity to learn about meditative drumming and develop an ongoing therapy group with a colleague that incorporated this with mindfulness. He has since continued leading Mindful Drumming therapy groups and workshops for the past seven years.