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What's new at Cultural Terrain . . . . | |
| If you've reached this page, you should be at my new website, mappingnebraska.com. | |
| I am part of a team which was awarded a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant, "Integrated Computational and Creative Thinking (IC2Think)." My UNL colleagues Leenkiat Soh, Computer Science, Steve Ramsay, Digital Humanities, and Duane Shell, Educational Psychology and I will be integrating creative thinking with computational thinking in introductory computer science courses to better prepare students to compete effectively in a world of increasingly complex, cross-disciplinary and ill-defined problems. | |
| My Skins sculpture, Resilience, received the Second Place Award at the 2011 Fantastic Fibers exhibition at the Yeiser Art Center. | |
I exhibited the first components of Mapping Nebraska at the Haydon Art Center's Stitch exhibition in October and November, in conjunction with the opening of the Textile Society of Ameria's 11th Biennial Symposium. From Plains Space to Cyber Space. Mapping Textile Space: Stitched and Woven Terrains my talk about contemporary artists who use embroidery and weaving to explore ideas of mapping, was presented at the Symposium and is archived online at UNL's Digital Commons. | |
I've received grants from the Research Council at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the Arts & Humanitites Research Enhancement Program, the Hixson Lied Foundation and UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activity and Research Experience) in support of Mapping Nebraska. | |
I'm teaching a new interdisciplinary course in creative thinking at UNL, Creativity 101 and partnering with faculty in Computer Science, Digital Humanities and Educational Pyschology faculty to seek NSF funding to integrate creative thinking with computational thinking in beginning Computer Science and other STEM courses. I presented a workshop, The Creativity Toolkit: Using Creativity Everyday at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney and gave a presentation, Developing Creativity: UsIng Right-Brained Thinking to Compete and Excel in a Left-Brained World, at UNL's Nebraska Summer Research Program for high-achieving engineering students from universities all across the US. | |
| My Skins were featured at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Nebraska Now: Elizabeth Ingraham / Fiber. | |
| For more information about my SKINS performance at LaMaMa ETC with Kathryn Moller, please see the archives at La MaMa here or read the review, "Beauty is Skin Deep," by Adrienne Cea here. | |
| And finally please take a look at my digital labyrinth, Coordinates, which is both map and maze. It's a narrative without a fixed structure which explores the landscape of our contemporary condition. | |
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