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Teaching Social Issues Educator Series: Terence Miller and Matthew Tanzi (Virtual)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress St Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

Free, Virtual Program

This three-part discussion series for K-12 educators will explore the images and diverse social issues documented by Walker Evans and how they relate to contemporary challenges. Educators will be paired with representatives from community organizations to form new connections and conversations around several topics ranging from social change, immigration, and trauma and resilience.   

Terence Miller, Advocacy Director at Preble Street will be in conversation with Matthew Tanzi, Art Educator for Portland High School. 

Terence Miller is the Advocacy Director at Preble Street, a non-profit human services agency in Portland, Maine. In that capacity he directs Preble Street’s public policy portfolio on the local, State, and Federal levels. He has twenty-four years of experience as a senior international officer at Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Ramapo College of New Jersey. In those positions he provided oversight for education abroad including SIBAYNE, a community-based learning program in Cape Town, South Africa; strategic international partnerships; and recruitment, admission and visa advising for undergraduate and graduate students. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Peace Studies and Government from Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx. He is an attorney receiving his Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University in New York City. He was a criminal defense attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, N.Y.; a human rights attorney in Chile investigating and documenting the disappeared and executed under the Pinochet regime for the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation; and directed an international public policy office in Washington, D.C. Presently, he is Legal Advisor and ex officio Board member for the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), a Board member for the International Institute of Wisconsin (IIW) and Maryknoll Lay Mission Association. His research interests are human rights, rule of law, restorative justice, and poverty law.

Matt Tanzi is a practicing artist and educator currently working in Portland, Maine. After earning his Master of Fine Arts degree from MECA&D in 2015, Tanzi spent his career supporting the arts community through workshops, afterschool programs, and his work as a teacher at Portland High School. Tanzi's studio practice is rooted in animation and he is currently developing a graphic novel with the intent to inspire youths to share their voice through art.

Based on an exhibition originally organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, former Curator, with Tasha Lutek, Collection Specialist, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Support provided by Art Bridges

 
 
Earlier Event: November 9
Teaching Social Issues Educator Series: Fatima Saidi and Patricia Sprague (Virtual)
Later Event: November 12
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