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Keynote

Session I

Session II

Session III

Reception and Poster Session

Dinner and Theater

Presenter Bios

Oakton Students
Thanks to generous support form the BSA, the $15 fee will be waived for students who register in advance. Students must complete a simple form and return it with their completed registration. Forms are available from the Student Activities Office, Room 1430 (Des Plaines) or A160 (Skokie); Bea Cornelissen, Office of College Advancement, Room 1144 (Des Plaines), 847.635.1812; or Kathleen Carot, Room 2739 (Des Plaines), 847.376.7061.

Oakton’s Women’s and Gender Studies program is partially funded by the Board of Student Affairs and the Oakton Educational Foundation.

The Women’s and Gender Studies Steering Committee
Amy Blumenthal
Kathleen Carot, WGS Coordinator
Bea Cornelissen
Anna Cuomo-Paul
Carlee Drummer
Tracy Fulce
Hollace Graff
Roxann Marshburn
Donna Ryan
Marguerite Solari
Marian Staats
Sherrill Weaver

Poster presentations developed by Chicago area artists, educators and students are available for viewing throughout the day and will be featured at the gala closing dessert reception. The session will feature the following exhibits:

Filmmaker Jerry Zbiral recently completed the film, Never Turning Back, The World of Peggy Lipschutz. Lipschutz is a 90-year-old artist who lives in Evanston, Illinois, and has devoted her life and art to peace and justice issues. For details visit www.neverturningback.net.

Ex-voto comes from the Latin, “from a vow,” and refers to an object or picture presented as a votive offering at a shrine. Using found objects from roadside markers and crash sites, Mimi Peterson focuses on intuitive and naive art to better understand the transition from one plane of life to another. The Ex-voto Project investigates several phenomena, including violent death on roadways; the roadside marker as an interactive installation incorporating Latin American ritual; and the roadside ex-voto as a ceremonial manifestation to acknowledge the rite of passage from life to death. Geographically, the project covers a portion of the Lake Michigan Scenic Tour, including the Red Arrow and Blue Star Highways and M196 in southwestern Michigan.

Helene Smith-Romer is curator of the I Due Art 4 You Museum (www.idueart4youmuseum.com), a dada institution that is home to, among other things, many examples of “Pop Alreadymades” collected during the mid-20th century by the Richard and Madame S. Harry family. “Pop Alreadymades” is the name given to those seemingly innocuous, mass-produced items – from key chains and cigarette lighters to postcards and photographs – that serve as modern day hieroglyphics to reveal society's duplicitous language, culture, history and ideology. Items from the museum’s permanent collection will be on display.

Robyn Randle addresses the themes of body image, self-loathing, and self-love through the documentation of an original feminist zine developed as a final project for instructor Lindsey Hewitt’s “Women and Creativity” course at Oakton Community College.

Photographer Anthony R. Stetina focuses his work on the documentation of architectural ornaments and figures found on buildings that predate modern steel frame and glass structures. “Female Iconography: Images of Women in Architecture, Sculpture, and Public Art,” is part of a larger photographic project that includes “Male Iconography,” as well as a previously exhibited series, “Native American Images in Architecture and Sculpture.”