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The Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture: Teaching Making

February 8 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Free
Archival photograph of roof construction by students at Tuskegee Institute

Presented by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Forum is dedicated to institutionalizing object-based learning and museum-enhanced pedagogy through artistic and scholarly investigation of the American South.

2025 Theme: “Teaching Making”
Examine environmental and educational intersections of art and craft found in their production, presentation and instruction.

“Craft Schools: A Cross-Country Odyssey in Search of Stories of Craft Education”
Michelle Millar Fisher, The Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary
Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

“Not Only Carpenters, but Architects: Design Pedagogy and Representation from Reconstruction to Jim Crow”
Maura E. Lucking, PhD, assistant professor, School of Architecture & Urban Planning,
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Conversation with Q&A
Maura E.Lucking and Michelle Millar Fisher

Conversation with Q&A: Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
Kyes Stevens, founder and director, Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, Auburn University; Randi Evans, PhD, manager of public practice and community partnerships, The Jule

Conversation with Q&A: Rural Studio
Andrew Freear, director, Rural Studio, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Auburn University; Maura E. Lucking and Michelle Millar Fisher

Michelle Millar Fisher

Michelle Millar Fisher is the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also leads an independent team on a book, touring exhibition, and program series called “Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births.”

Maura E. Lucking, PhD

Maura E. Lucking is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a fellow of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture and Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Her forthcoming book, Building the Settler Campus, is an architectural history of the 19th-century public college movement examining policy, land use, campus planning and design pedagogy across land grant colleges, industrial institutes for the formerly enslaved and Indian boarding schools.

Kyes Stevens

Since 2001, Kyes Stevens has worked to design and build an innovative and sustainable outreach program that works with the underserved adult prison population in Alabama. Currently, Stevens oversees all program aspects of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Program (APAEP), for which she was awarded an Auburn University Young Alumni Award.

Randi Evans, PhD

Randi Evans is the manager of public practice and community partnerships at The Jule Museum where she oversees community-based programs, scholarship and experiential education. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a graduate certificate from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University and a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts.

Andrew Freear

Original from Yorkshire, England, Andrew Freear is the director of Auburn University Rural Studio, a program that questions the conventional education and role of architects. His students have designed and built more than 220 community buildings, homes and parks in the under-resourced community of Newbern, Alabama. He recently received the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

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  • Date: February 8
  • Time:
    1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Cost: Free
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