East Stroudsburg University\u2019s departments of art + design and modern languages, philosophy, and religion produced the second installation of The Inclusion Poster Project, a student art-and-design exhibit aimed at fostering dialogue about how the University\u2019s scholarly community can promote inclusion and diversity. The exhibit includes the works of 18 art + design students who were coupled with 20 students from a section of philosophy that\u2019s focused on race, gender and culture to express their opinions and views through the posters that were created.\u00a0 Professors David Mazure (art + design) and T. Storm Heter (modern languages, philosophy, and religion) led this cross-disciplinary collaboration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project is incredible.\u00a0I\u2019m thrilled to see it\u2019s back on our campus,\u201d says Joanne Z. Bruno, J.D., ESU\u2019s provost and vice president for academic affairs. \u201cThe work done by these faculty members and their students is commendable.\u00a0They have given a voice to those who are passionate about things taking place in society today \u2013 on our campus and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
A prepared purpose statement about the project states that the initiative is \u201c\u2026consistent with ESU\u2019s values of intellectual integrity, freedom of expression, good citizenship, and accountability.\u00a0Students studied inclusion as a concept in academic literature, inventoried campus spaces from a first-person perspective, and co-designed images and messages that would contribute to inclusive excellence on our campus\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are the most diverse universities within Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education and we want to enable our students to reflect their personal views on the topic in order to engage in conversations and dialogue with others that is reflective of what they, see, feel and hear every day,\u201d says Mazure.<\/p>\n
The posters have been installed at various locations on campus in order to provide visibility to members of the campus and the greater community, according to Professor Mazure.\u00a0The installation will be in place from January 20 through 31.\u00a0For those who wish to come to campus and view the art, a catalog of the posters and their locations may be downloaded from the project\u2019s webpage, esu.edu\/inclusionposter<\/a>. Anyone interested in sharing their comments and views on the students\u2019 work may join the conversation online using the hashtag #inclusionposter.<\/p>\n It is important for those viewing the project to note the University\u2019s disclaimer related to the works:\u00a0\u201cThe Inclusion Poster Project is an initiative that is reflective of the opinions and views of the student designer who created this work. This poster does not necessarily portray the views of the University or its administration. However, it is important that the student voice be heard in this process.\u00a0East Stroudsburg University supports the Inclusion Poster Project and its ability to offer students the right to express their artistic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n An open forum to discuss the project will be held on Tuesday, January 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Smith McFarland Theatre of the university\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n The first Inclusion Poster Project installation occurred in November 2017 at ESU. The idea for the initiative is based on a poster exhibit on tolerance in Sarajevo by Mirko Ilic, a renowned designer and illustrator. For his exhibit, Ilic invited top designers from around the world to submit posters related to the topic of tolerance. It resulted in 24 posters that went on exhibit in Sarajevo in 2015.<\/p>\n For more information about ESU\u2019s Inclusion Poster Project, visit esu.edu\/inclusionposter<\/a> or contact Professor Mazure at dmazure@esu.edu<\/a> or Professor Heter at sheter@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU\u2019s departments of art + design and modern languages, philosophy, and religion produced the second installation of The Inclusion Poster Project, a student art-and-design exhibit aimed at fostering dialogue about how the University\u2019s scholarly community can promote inclusion and diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,75,143,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-arts-and-sciences","category-community","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}