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Finding Focus in Times of Crisis - Session 1

In this inaugural webinar, our speakers explore a series of pressing questions: What is a crisis? What does it mean to be imaginative during a crisis? How can art help us face what was previously unimaginable – and imagine and realize what has never been? Yasmine Awais, Dr. David Herman, Jr., and Denise Lim discuss these questions and talk about how the power of imagination can move us forward during times of uncertainty. Bios Denise Lim is a recent PhD graduate in Sociology from Yale University, with an MA degree in African Studies from Yale and a BA degree in English and Sociology from Bryn Mawr College. She is currently a lecturer at Yale College and teaches an undergraduate seminar entitled, “Space, Time, and the African City”. Denise also works as a strategic initiatives research fellow at the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, designing and implementing a data-driven research project that measures the impact that COVID-19 has had on training programs in cultural heritage and conservation throughout the African continent. Yasmine Awais is a licensed creative arts therapist and professional counselor who found her way to art therapy through engaging in photographic dialogues with incarcerated individuals. Yasmine was formally Associate Clinical Professor in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Drexel University and is a PhD candidate in Social Welfare at The Graduate Center, City University of New York where she is also a Presidential Research Fellow. She serves as the board president of Artistic Noise, an arts-based organization in Harlem that works with youth involved in the justice system. Her research interests center diversity in the creative arts therapies and in higher education. | Photo Credit: Nicole Myles Dr. David Herman, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Art Education, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. He is a lens-based artist, educator, and scholar whose work explores the relations between the perceptual and the social as a politics of ontology. He is the co-founder of Preservation LINK, Inc., an arts education non-profit dedicated to creating visual literacy curricula for communities who have been historically under-represented. He also currently serves as an Executive Board Member of the International Visual Sociology Association, Advisory Committee Member for Brandywine Workshop & Archive’s Digital Portal Project, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Commission Member for the National Art Education Association.