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Publications

2023           Liberal Education in the Age of Automation. Karim Dharamsi, David Ohreen (Eds.). Chapter, Deborah Forbes: AI, Andy, Alan, Algorithms, and Boden: The A’s and B of Making Art with Aesthetic                         
Meaning. Willington, Del. USA: Vernon Press. 

2020              American Tapestry Alliance Journal, Fall 2020, overandunderandoverandunder… Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists; Jane Kidd, Murray Gibson, and Ann Newdigate.

2020               Boro, Susan Sakamoto. Exhibition catalogue; Esplanade Art Gallery. Medicine Hat, AB.
  
2020               Dead White Guys Art Monopoly (The Canon of Western Art History) versus Pluriversality. How can we move toward decolonizing even if we are settler descendants? A settler descendant looks at the work of Monkman and Jungen. Mount Royal University Liberal Education Conference. Calgary AB. Postponed due to COVID.

2019               AI, Andy, Alan, Algorithms, and Boden: The A’s and B of Making Art with Aesthetic Meaning. Mount Royal University Conference. Calgary AB.

2019                Chaos and Complexity; Untangling Strands of Truth. Alberta College Instructors Faculty Association. Jasper, AB

2019               Imagination Alive! 99 Stories by Seniors in Long-term Care and Students in High School. Deborah Forbes (Ed). Victoria, BC. First Choice Books.

2019               Between Truth and Falsity: Liberal Education and the Art of Discernment. Karim Dharamsi, David Ohreen (Eds.). Chapter, Deborah Forbes: Complexity, Chaos and Collaboration; Untangling Strands of truth – Teaching, learning, teaching in the 21stcentury.Willington, Del. USA: Vernon Press. 

2018               Chaos and Complexity in Post-secondary Learning. Mount Royal University Liberal Education Conference. Calgary AB.

2018               Harassment: Susannah and Elders. Esplanade art Gallery

2018               Libel: Whistler versus Ruskin. Esplanade Art Gallery

2018               Public Outrage; Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko at National Gallery of Canada. Esplanade Art Gallery.

2018               Big Ideas Made From Weird Stuff. Three Canadian contemporary artists – Brian Jungen, Peter von Tiesenhausen and Liz Magor.  Esplanade Art Gallery 

2018               Liberal Education and the Idea of the University; Arguments and Reflections on Theory and Practice. Karim Dharamsi, James Zimmer (Eds.). Chapter 13, Deborah Forbes and Sharon Allan: Engaging Wicked Problems with Design Thinking: A Pedagogical Strategy for the Liberal Arts in the 21st Century. Willington, Del. USA: Vernon Press. 

2018               overandunderandoverandunder…Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists; Jane Kidd, Murray Gibson, and Ann Newdigate. Guest Curator,Exhibition catalogue. Medicine Hat. Esplanade Art Gallery.  

Conference and Public Presentations:

2020               Dead White Guys Art Monopoly (The Canon of Western Art History) versus Pluriversality. How can we move toward decolonizing even if we are settler descendants? A settler descendant looks at the work of Monkman and Jungen. Mount Royal University Liberal Education Conference. Calgary AB. Postponed due to COVID.

2019               AI, Andy, Alan, Algorithms, and Boden: The A’s and B of Making Art with Aesthetic Meaning. Mount Royal University Conference. Calgary AB.

2019                Chaos and Complexity; Untangling Strands of Truth. Alberta College Instructors Faculty Association. Jasper, AB

2018               Chaos and Complexity in Post-secondary Learning. Mount Royal University Liberal Education Conference. Calgary AB.

2018               Harassment: Susannah and Elders. Esplanade art Gallery

2018               Libel: Whistler versus Ruskin. Esplanade Art Gallery

2018               Public Outrage; Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko at National Gallery of Canada. Esplanade Art Gallery.

2018               Big Ideas Made From Weird Stuff. Three Canadian contemporary artists – Brian Jungen, Peter von Tiesenhausen and Liz Magor.  Esplanade Art Gallery 

 

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