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West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series: Ann Markusen on Native American Artists and Poverty
November 9th, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Parrington Hall Forum
The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar Series presents Ann Markusen, professor and director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
Native American Artists: Routes out of Personal and Community Poverty
While Native American artists make major and varied contributions to their communities, they face special obstacles in developing their own livelihoods and marketing their work. This seminar uses an intensive study of Ojibwe artists (visual, performing, musicians, writers) in Minnesota to explore how they develop their skills and enterprises, use their art to combat poverty, solve community problems, nurture and preserve cultural identity, and innovate to bridge with other cultures. Policies to improve their abilities to do so are proposed for public, non-profit, private and tribal actors.
Ann Markusen is Professor and Director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Markusen’s work on arts, cultural and community development focuses on artists as creators and on important public, non-profit and commercial decisionmakers. Recent publications include San Jose Artists’ Resource and Space Study (2008), Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Sectors (2006), Artists’ Centers (2006), The Artistic Dividend (2003) and many journal articles. Markusen earned a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Michigan State University, and has taught at the Universities of Colorado, California Berkeley, Northwestern and Rutgers. Winner of the 2006 Alonso Prize in Regional Science, she has served as North American Regional Science Association President, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, and AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy Chair. Markusen is a frequent keynote speaker on arts, cities and economic development.
For more information about this event, please contact Jennie Romich / Denise Novotny via email or by phone at 221-3781 or 616-2858.
Additional information may be available online.
This event is open to: students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, general public.