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What is Useful? The paradox of rights in Tania Bruguera’s ‘Useful Art’ Immigrant Movement International. Courtesy CreativeTime If the question for socially engaged art, as the curator Nato Thompson has recently argued, is no longer “Is it art?” but rather “is it useful?”[1] What is the appropriate evaluative framework for art as a social ‘tool’? UIC Kicks Off 'Future of Chicago' Lecture Series Sept. 14 The racial transformation of Chicago’s housing market is the subject of the first lecture in the 2011-12 “Future of Chicago” lecture series Sept. 14 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Janet Smith, associate professor of urban planning and policy and co-director of UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, will discuss “Race and Politics in Chicago” at the Pierre de Vise Memorial Lecture. The lecture is named in honor of the acclaimed urbanologist and demographer, who was known for declaring Chicago to be America’s most segregated city in the 1967 study, “Chicago’s Widening Color Gap.” de Vise, who died in 2004, taught in the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Administration, where he earned his doctoral degree.

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Facilitating Creative Thinking in the Art Room Introduction “How nice it must be to teach art,” and, “It must be so much fun to draw and paint all day!” As an art teacher, I have heard these statements or something to their effect from others at least once every school year. In a way, they are right. s L page l. - Abbreviation for liter. labyrinth - Although sometimes used as a synonym for "maze," a labyrinth is classically a single (unicursal) pathway that leads physically to the center of a linearpattern and then back out by simply reversing direction on the same path. In a maze there are invariably riddles to be solved — dead-ends abound. Labyrinths have been known to the human race for over 3,500 years, conjuring up such images as the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, confined in a labyrinthine hallway at Knossos.