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Jan

Service-Learning in Arts: Cross-institutional Case Sharing

Staff Student

Prof. LEUNG Mee Ping, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University; Prof. Sophia LAW, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University

20 Jan 2020

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

TriAngle (DLB 306) Level 3, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Abstract

In this workshop, Prof. LEUNG Mee Ping, from Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Prof. LAW Shuk Mun Sophia, from the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University will share their experience of Service-Learning projects in Arts. Prof. Leung and Prof. Law are both experienced in integrating Service-Learning in their courses. In Prof. Leung’s Public Art, students visited Dongguan for three days. They created public art maquettes that connected Dongguan’s geographical, political, economic and social context to the living space and community. Their art works were exhibited in a local art space, inspiring local people to reflect the rapid development of Dongguan in the past decades. On the other hand, Prof. Law’s Art and Well Being examines the intrinsic nature of art and its impact on the well-being of individuals and communities. The Service-Learning project of this course creates a platform for students to reify how art can be used as a language to facilitate expression and communication in community settings. Both Service-Learning projects received positive feedback from all parties involved. Prof. Leung and Prof. Law will share what benefits and impacts of the Service-Learning to all stakeholders, especially the positive outcomes on students engaging with the community.

Prof. LEUNG Mee Ping

 

Prof. Leung Mee-ping received her BFA from L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts a Paris, France and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, LA, U.S.A. and Ph.D at Chinese University of Hong Kong (Religious & Cultural Studies Department). Her creative practicing includes installation, mix-media, public art and community art, etc. 

 

Through research-based practicing proceed experimental interaction and integration, her works can integrate elements and platforms of theatre, design, commercial space and social space, in order to extend performance or action; those can be read as issue-based creativity. Her works concern the ethic, community and memories of the human living situation which closely intertwined with her theory research area of visual culture and globalization.

 

Prof. Sophia LAW

 

Prof. Sophia Law is an Associate Professor of the Department of Visual Studies. As an art historian with years of nursing experience, she started a new research focus on the intrinsic nature of art in 2007. Her research areas include art and trauma, art education, art facilitation and service-learning. Since 2009, she has integrated her findings into teaching and social services, promoting art appreciation and art facilitation in the community. She has been conducting various art facilitation projects for people with special needs including elders with dementia, adults with intellectual and physical disabilities, child victims of family violence.

 

She is the author of The Invisible Citizens of Hong Kong: Art and Stories of Vietnamese Boatpeople (HK: Chinese University Press, 2014), Art as Intervention in Serving Secondary Child Victims of Family Violence: Introduction & Manual (Hong Kong: Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, 2016), Reading Chinese Painting – Six Ways of Appreciating Chinese Art (Shanghai Press and Publishing Development, 2016), “Art in service-learning: Connecting art and community” in O. Delano-Oriaran, M. W. Penick-Parks, S. Fondrie (Eds.), The SAGE Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (pp.257-264). California: SAGE Reference, 2015.

CoP-SLHE is one of the initiatives of an UGC-funded project, "Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions (Project No.: PolyU4/T&L/16-19) jointly organised by Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, The Education University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our goal is to facilitate sharing of experiences among SL practitioners and interested staff from all UGC-funded institutions and to promote collective learning and the scholarship of teaching and learning in Service-Learning.