LINC Circle Studio
Circle Studio Overview
Discover a creative practice from another culture to explore both new and familiar intercultural perspectives. Circle Studio is a great introduction to intercultural learning. Programs are for a general student audience. Valpo staff and faculty are also welcome to participate. All Circle Studio programs are approved for VUE Fieldwork.
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Fall Programs
All Circle Studio programs are approved for VUE Fieldwork. At Circle Studio, you will:
– Create with your hands
– Observe and interpret
– Reflect and discuss
– Learn from an expert
Circle Studio programs take place at LINC in ASB 240 (Arts & Sciences Building, main level).
Retablos Paintings – Latin America’s Miracle Memorials
September 21 at 4 pm
LINC – ASB 240
In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month
Approved for VUE Fieldwork
- Think about your cultural practices related to the ways you share good news
- Learn from Prof. Hoult about the history & imagery of retablos, a Latin American painting tradition
- Engage directly with this cultural practice by creating your own retablos
Arpilleras Chilenas – Textiles as Testimony
October 7 at 4:30 pm
LINC – ASB 240
In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month
Approved for VUE Fieldwork
- Interpret behaviors from your own cultural context related to denouncing human rights abuses and their consequences.
- Learn about arpilleras, textile-based scenes of daily life, adapted during the dictatorship to express individual and collective pain. Prof. Ames, retired Spanish professor, shares her expertise.
- Create your own 3-D arpilleras that call attention to a social crisis and its impact on a community.
Are You a Leseratte? – German Books & Reading Rats
October 28 at 4 pm
LINC – ASB 240
Approved for VUE Fieldwork
- Interpret behaviors and values from your own cultural context related to material items (like books!) that hold meaning for us in the literal holding and keeping of an object.
- Learn about Germany’s particular reading culture of Leseratten (book rats/worms) and its historical context. Valpo’s German Professors share their expertise on the topic of Bücher (books).
- Create your own mini Buch with folded folio pages, twine, and needle, and customize your booklet with ink stamps and other adornments.
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Dapper Sap & AfriCOBRA Colors
Inspiring Textiles to Celebrate Black History Month
January 28 at 4 pm
- Explore intercultural perspectives by learning about La Sape, a Congolese fashion subculture and creative practice born of colonialism.
- Discover the vibrant work of Bisa Butler, a contemporary African American artist who transforms greyscale photographs into living, stitched portraits made of Cool-Ade colors.
- Experiment to create your own color-rich fabric portrait in the style of Bisa Butler.
Winter Masks — Roosters, Fangs, & Foxtails
German Fastnacht … Not the Mardi Gras Parade You May Know
February 9 at 4 pm
- Interpret an unfamiliar regional tradition through the lens of your own cultural context.
- Learn about the Fastnacht festival specific to the city of Rottweil in Southwest Germany. Explore the unique masked characters who walk this pre-Lenten parade.
- Experiment and create your own character mask using upcycled materials.
Wayang Puppetry –
Art Assignment: Object Empathy
October 13 at 4 pm
- Think about how we interpret unfamiliar cultural objects through the lens of our own cultural contexts & personal histories
- Learn about the Javanese Wayang puppets mysteriously gifted to LINC
- Engage with object empathy & complete a hands-on Art Assignment using a found object that is broken, incomplete, or in need to something else you can offer.
Diplomatic Agents of Defiance –
Spanish Heroes of Forgery
October 13 at 5 pm
Explore intercultural perspectives as you learn about a creative practice of compassion that saved thousands of lives during World War II. Facilitated by LINC Director Carol Goss and Professor Miguel-Pueyo.
- Think about your cultural practices, values, & means of physical movement at home & beyond
- Learn from Prof. Miguel-Pueyo about the ángel de Budapest & the history of salvoconductos para la libertad
- Engage directly with this practice by designing a salvoconductos on behalf of someone else
Retablos Paintings –
Latin America’s Miracle Memorials
September 23 at 6 pm
Explore intercultural perspectives as you learn about a creative practice from Latin America. Facilitated by LINC Director Carol Goss and Professor Hoult.
- Think about your cultural practices related to the ways you share good news
- Learn from Prof. Hoult about the history & imagery of retablos, a Latin American painting tradition
- Engage directly with this cultural practice by creating your own retablo.