Event

Collaboration In Concert featuring guest artist Joel Javier

Ursa Ensembles unique Collaboration In Concert events combine live music, art creation, liberal arts education, and audience participation. A guest artist is invited to teach our audience a few tricks of the trade, typically focusing on one element of their craft. For instance, a visual artist might teach the audience how to craft lines using chalk and pencil. Then, Ursa Ensemble performs. During this performance, audience members use their newly-taught art skills to create an art piece guided by the music they are hearing and seeing.

This event will feature guest artist, Joel Javier. Joel received his BFA in studio art from Murray State University and an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a merit scholar in 2011. He is an artist and art educator who gained his passion for art education and community arts teaching while working as the Wallace Grant Education Outreach Coordinator at the Speed Art Museum (2005-09) in his hometown, Louisville, KY. He has over 13 years of experience in art teaching and museum education. Recently he has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago as the lead instructor for Teen Lab, an After School Matters Program and as the Interim Associate Programs Manager at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. In the midst of his life as an art educator he has maintained a career as an artist and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions.