This session will explore how staff can better empower students in their day-to-day encounters. Drawing from Hilary Hung’s teaching experience in museums and galleries, attendees will participate in arts-based learning activities to: recognize the authority that accompanies their position on campus; identify ways to empower students in their role; and practice reframing their interactions and discourse to promote empowering moments. This workshop aims to help attendees think with their hands and tap into narratives not yet composed in the mind; no art skill or experience is necessary.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the power relations that exist in staff’s encounters with students
- Identify ways to empower students in staff’s day-to-day role
- Practice reframing discourse and interactions to create empowering learning spaces/ opportunities
Key Themes
- Leadership
- Supporting Students
Session(s)
April 8, 2019
2:30 - 3:30 pm
STC 0050
Presenter(s)
Hilary Hung is a practicing visual artist and Arts Educator who completed her Bachelors of Arts, Honours, in Studio Art at the University of Guelph. She has worked with empowering students at multiple cultural spaces including the Toronto History Museums and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Hilary has programmed empowering curriculum and art-making studios for students as well as researched and designed professional development workshops for teachers. Beyond cultural institutions, Hilary was a Facilitator at the University of Guelph where she presented and trained staff on the pedagogy of empowerment in learning. Hilary was also invited to present a talk on empowering young adults at the 97th Lions International Convention in Toronto. Synthesizing her teaching experience in informal learning environments, Hilary will be bringing her experience from the Creative Learning Department at the McMichael to the OHD Conference; her workshop will challenge attendees to think with their hands and use arts-based learning to gain a deeper understanding of their interactions with students.
Hilary has presented to multiple audiences beyond the training she led at the University of Guelph and the talk she delivered at the Lions International Convention. She has delivered arts curriculums to children, youth and adults in multiple cultural institutions. Hilary is also an exhibition visual artist and has shown her work in Montreal, Toronto, Guelph and the Georgian Bay National Park. Her next exhibition is a solo show at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts in May 2019.