![]() Tina Kempin, director of UAB’s Institute for Human RightsTina Kempin Reuter, Alabama should not be surprised by the level of excellence that is within the Black Belt.” “We want to help students, teachers, administrators and the community understand the resources within their reach and show them how to use those resources to change their futures. Zimmerman-Brown said GEAR UP Alabama can be summed up in essentially one word: hope. “By exposing students to different environments with summer camps and college tours, they’re getting to see places and campuses and get a sense of how they’d fit in there.” “Some students have never left their hometowns,” Zimmerman-Brown said. Zimmerman-Brown is the project director for GEAR UP Alabama, which provides Black Belt students with enhanced curriculum, tutoring, mentoring, summer camps and college tours and provides school administrators and teachers with professional development and mentoring. Department of Education GEAR UP grant to help prepare more low-income students to enter and succeed in post-secondary education during the next seven years. There are nearly 10,000 students in more than 50 schools across Alabama’s Black Belt region, and Veronique Zimmerman-Brown wants to see them all attend college. Veronique Zimmerman Brown, project director for GEAR UP AlabamaVeronique Zimmerman-Brown “Because I’m most interested in art that moves outside the white cube gallery and intersects with life, I challenge my students to make work that can be seen by a wider audience and have greater social and ecological impact.” “Major trends in sculpture have shifted drastically in the last 30 years and have expanded to include new media, public art and community engagement,” Holloway said. This semester, Holloway’s students learned to cast metal and used the trash to create awards that will be given to Birmingham’s water protectors. Most recently, the department partnered with the Birmingham Water Works to create art from trash found when cleaning up Lake Purdy. She has worked with students to use art to make a difference in the community, from building bee houses out of reclaimed and foraged materials for Ruffner Mountain to creating gallery maquettes of the Birmingham Museum of Art to help curators plan exhibits. Stacey Holloway is challenging that perception.Īn assistant professor of sculpture in the Department of Art and Art History, Holloway encourages her students to think of sculpture as something than can exist outside the typical art gallery. Often, sculptures are thought of as tall marble statues in the world’s great historic cities, like Rome or Paris. Stacey Holloway, assistant professor of sculptureStacey Holloway Some may be familiar, and others may be new to you. During Women’s History Month, meet one woman each weekday who encourage us to look at things differently.
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