"Visual Art and the Classroom"
Wednesday, May 18th

Kimberly Lamm (Doctoral Candidate, English, UW) and Phillip Thurtle (visiting faculty, CHID) will lead a roundtable discussion on teaching art and visual culture in a variety of classroom situations. Kim Lamm will be discussing how the textuality of the visual and the visuality of the text expand practices of reading, seeing, and interpreting. She will share some strategies for introducing visual culture into composition classes and draw from experiences teaching Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, and the work of the feminist art historian Carol Armstrong. Prof. Thurtle, a molecular biologist and historian of science and technology, will discuss his course entitled "Eye + Mind," in which students learned about the role of perception in art and life sciences by exploring how recent artists have used biological materials and the ways that biology now relies on pattern recognition in data analysis.

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