Southwestern Illinois College (Schmidt Art Center)

The Schmidt Art Center of Southwestern Illinois College’s Conjunctions: Ubjects, Stories, and Places, is a series of community coauthored exhibits and discussions to answer questions how and why special value is placed on certain unique objects or places and how these objects or sites come to affirm us in our daily lives. Collaborators include the University of Missouri’s Education Department and Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, and Southern Illinois University’s Departments of History and Museum Studies. The project will support community interviews with residents, humanities discussions at local libraries and at the Schmidt Art Center, an arts education curriculum with fourth- and fifth-grade students, and a culminating humanities discussion and exhibit at the Schmidt.