Prerequisite: Participants must also attend Beal's keynote talk on Monday, October 16, 6:30 pm, prior to the workshop.
Registration required. If you are not one of the first 35 participants to sign up, you will be added to a wait list.
Keynote talk: Monday, October 16, 6:30 pm; NMU Art & Design Room 165
You can also attend the talk via Zoom
Meeting ID: 936 6630 9239
Passcode: 990496
Workshop: October 18, 3 pm; Northern Center - Peninsula 5
Endia Beal’s Artistic Introspective Workshop offers an innovative, engaging, and relatable approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) training. Her two-hour sessions are designed around the fundamental idea that diversity enhances creativity and leads to unfettered discoveries. Beal’s workshops use art to encourage introspection of our personal beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. We are all at different stages of our diversity maturity, and art helps elicit responses in an engaging and non-threatening way, sometimes exposing latent and unconscious biases and preferences. The sessions are designed to expand our personal and cultural boundaries, which will enable us to view each new encounter from a different perspective. Beal provides a safe place to take risks, be vulnerable, and learn the importance of expressing empathy and advocacy for those within the organization.
This program is partly sponsored by The Michigan Arts & Culture Council and the School of Art & Design.
