{"id":43489,"date":"2017-02-15T03:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=43489"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:20:53","slug":"role-of-arts-in-america-to-be-examined-at-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_15_2017\/role-of-arts-in-america-to-be-examined-at-symposium","title":{"rendered":"Role of arts in America to be examined at symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UT School of Visual and Performing Arts, and its partners, will present a dialogue on \u201cThe Role of Arts in Today\u2019s America\u201d Monday, Feb. 20. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the symposium is to broaden the dialogue and to build a regional coalition with a voice,\u201d Debra A. Davis, director of the School of Visual and Performing Arts, said. \u201cOur partners include the Toledo Museum of Art, the Arts Commission and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_43541\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_15_2017\/role-of-arts-in-america-to-be-examined-at-symposium\/lucas-speaking\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43541\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lucas-speaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lucas-speaking.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Lucas-speaking-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucas<\/p><\/div>The free, public event will feature four sessions and a lunchtime keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>Will Lucas will give the keynote address. He is the founder and CEO of A William Lucas Co., which is home to several technology and media-related businesses, including Creadio, a brand marketing technology company servicing nationally recognized brands since 2007, and Classana, an online platform that helps companies organize educational resources. He also is a co-founder of ICON, a photography on-demand service, and is one of the few young minority TEDx organizers in the United States; he curates the Technology Entertainment Design talk in Toledo. <\/p>\n<p>Lucas, who graduated from the University in 2015, was appointed to the UT Board of Trustees by Gov. John Kasich in February 2016. He serves as vice chair of the board&#8217;s Academic and Student Affairs Committee and is a member of the Finance and Audit Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Session topics will be \u201cOur Current Artistic Moment,\u201d a timely subject exploring concerns about artistic responses to the current social and political moment; \u201cProgramming the Arts Across a Divide,\u201d which looks at the challenges of creating meaningful arts events across a range of divides \u2014 urban, rural, cultural, ethnic, economic and others; \u201cArts in Education,\u201d which examines how to ensure that the arts continue to occupy a valued place in the curriculum along with other disciplines; and \u201cArts and Community,\u201d which considers what is needed to sustain the organizations and projects that provide arts experiences and services to diverse communities.<\/p>\n<p>A complete schedule, including information about the panelists, is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/utoledo.edu\/al\/svpa\/symposium\/schedule.html\">utoledo.edu\/al\/svpa\/symposium\/schedule.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Arts Symposium will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 3 p.m. Sessions will take place in Thompson Student Union Room 2592, and the luncheon will be held in the Thompson Student Union Ingman Room.<\/p>\n<p>Box lunches for the keynote address are available for purchase in advance. Attendees do not need to order a lunch to attend the keynote address; they are welcome to bring their own lunch. <\/p>\n<p>RSVP online at <a href=\"http:\/\/utoledo.edu\/al\/svpa\/symposium\">utoledo.edu\/al\/svpa\/symposium<\/a> or call 419.530.7356.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Role of Arts in Today\u2019s America\u201d will be discussed at a free, public symposium at The University of Toledo Monday, Feb. 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53387,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489\/revisions\/53387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}