The Prospect of Campus and Community Mutuality
A Discussion with Sharon Irish, Cynthia Oliver, Lisa Fay, Sam Smith, and Jason Finkelman

Wednesday, April 7th, 7-8:30

Some references mentioned in the discussion chat:

Sharon Irish
    https://cas.illinois.edu/node/2496
    https://sharonirish.org/2021/04/06/mutuality-between-campus-and-community/

Karthik Kakarala
    https://www.instagram.com/seitukjones/

Q: 
    Drake, is there a way to follow the Transformative Justice Center developments?
    Drake Materre:	Everyone can follow DefundUIPD on instagram and Twitter. We will be having a few events soon as well.

Sharon Irish:	Here’s another great program tomorrow that several folks on this call have been promoting:
	https://wggp.illinois.edu/outreach/research/migration-and-game-design-project/migration-and-game-design-keynote-lecture-lual

	http://eblackcu.net/mural/angelarivers.html

Sharon Irish (she, her):
    Lisa, what were some of the incubation spaces?
	Urbana Public Arts and Culture
	https://urbanaillinois.us/arts
	https://www.coursicle.com/illinois/courses/THEA/418/
	https://imaginingamerica.org/

Samuel Smith:
    Oasis Graphics on Fifth and University taught graphic design and operate a press. They published a piece called common ground for a number of years. Julian Rappaport was a major University supporter.
    Nature's table
    Black Arts Group called Symmetry/Angela Rivers

Lisa Fay:	https://usdac.us/
Sharon Irish (she, her):	https://www.ds4si.org/
Miriam (she/her):
	https://www.storyatscale.org/
	Art can tell a new story about who we are and what’s possible

Shirley Meyer Blankenship:	The arts can assist in transcending ordinary human existence
Jason Finkelman:	https://urbanafreelibrary.libnet.info/event/5007778
Endalyn Taylor:	Art can imagine and help actualize a better reality
	Sharon Irish (she, her):	https://urbanafreelibrary.libnet.info/event/5007778

aimee:	<3 Angie Heaton. <3 Kevin Flowers. <3 Nick Rudd. Rest in power.

Jeff Glassman:	Oasis Graphics, muralist Angela Rivers, WEFT, the C-U video access center, Our Gang Day Care Center…twelve organizations and fifteen artists came together in 1976-1979 as the Champaign County Consortium for Cultural Arts funded through a federal employment program CETA.  We also ran several summer programs for fifty local young people learning forms of art as paid summer jobs.

Art can heal trauma. 
Lisa Fay:	Transitional justice center

Samuel Smith:	@Jeff, David Monk was one of the local CETA coordinator
Jeff Glassman:	Yes! Sam. Educational Resources in Environmental Sciences…Dave Monk!

Samuel Smith:	I'd love to hear from Kwanzaa 365 folks on the call

Sharon Irish (she, her):
	https://cas.illinois.edu/index.php/person/seitu-jones
	https://seitujonesstudio.com/

Jason Finkelman:
	https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_2yd62hqc
	https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_cgpz4uy4