2024-02-06
What About Empathy?
Janeil Engelstad collaborating with long time creative partner, designer, and educator Mark Randall. Planting the seed for a multi-platform, high impact project that is surely to grow and expand over the upcoming months / year.
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2023-12-23
Press
New Mural Becoming Community Gateway, Janeil Engelstsd interviewed about The Galbraith Mural, a project she designed, art directed and produced through her organization, Make Art with Purpose (MAP) with muralist Brooke Chaney, artist Delaney Smith Vaughn and interns from CityLab High School.
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2023-08-10
Press
Janeil Engelstad interviewed for article on Dallas artist Brooke Chaney for Art&Seek. Chaney is participating in a large scale mural project designed and produced by Engelstad through her organization, Make Art with Purpose.
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2023-06-15
Leonardo
Pleased to announce the publication of a Special Section in Leonardo, published by MIT Press, which I guest Edited and wrote an introduction and article for, "Disremembering the Harrisons," celebrating the life and work of Helen and Newton Harrison.
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2023-06-01
Keynote
Honored to give the keynote at Sunflower on Fire. A project by O & TYPONEXUS, Sunflower on Fire features an exhibition, performances, hands-on workshops, lectures, and presentations exploring the culture and history of Ukraine.
Sunday, June 11, 2023 • 2:00-3:30 PM
Music Heals Stage, NW Courtyard, Seattle Center (adjacent to KEXP, Vera Project and Climate Pledge Area)
Free and Open to the Public
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2023-04-26
Visiting Artist
Thrilled to workshop with two Applied Theatre classes (graduate and undergraduate) taught be the excellent writer, director and educator Lalu Mokuku at Rhodes University in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Part of . . .
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2023-03-20
Essay
Janeil Engelstad, "Helen and Newton Harrison: Re-imagining the Context of Art," published in the Nature of Cities
From the introduction "The following text recounts one of many experiences I had with
Newton and Helen Harrison, as well as a sketch of their creative
process. The Japanese term, kenzoku, which literally means family and the presence of the deepest connection, expresses our relationship and exchange."
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2023-01-16
WELCOME
Thrilled to launch WELCOME, a project that connects people recently settled in the US to resources that support community connection and well being. With this iteration, families from Afghanistan received bags with culturally appropriate food . . .
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2022-11-06
Panel Discussion
Trans Cultural Exchange Conference: Create the Future
Residencies: Providing Artists Direct Access to Understanding Climate Change
Location: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue
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2022-10-20
Talk
Integrative Design and Embedded Engagement
Talk at School of Design Strategies, New School, Parsons School of Design in New York
Thursday Nov 3, 1:30 PM
Looking forward to giving an artist talk to the always engaging students at Parsons.
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2022-08-01
Vich-Na-Vich: A Conversation - Ukraine Extreme Care Time for Art Margins
Janeil Engelstad and curator Lilia Kudelia with curator and researcher Kateryna Filyuk and art historian and cultural programmer Ilya Zabolotnyi about how the war has impacted Ukrainian art and culture, issues of cultural preservation and self-agency, as well as the building of support networks and new art infrastructures.
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2022-05-07
Press
"With war raging in Ukraine, and no end in sight, Americans are increasingly asking: What can I do? How can I get involved?Two women with strong ties to Dallas have answered the question with a rare mixture of creativity and bravery. Janeil Engelstad and Lilia Kudelia are showing their own brand of leadership, by providing a pipeline to Ukrainian artists."
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2022-04-06
Voices From Ukraine Episode 2
On the Frontline of War
Janeil Engelstad talks with artist Olia Fedorova lives and is sheltering in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. Olia shares stories about day to day life during wartime, reflects on how the meaning of her art is changing since the invasion and her views on Russian culture and imperialism.
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2022-04-01
Talk
Design for Impact and Social Change
Wednesday, April 27 12:30 - 1:30
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2022-03-29
Vich-Na-Vich
Vich-Na-Vich, literally eye to eye, or face to face, features Ukrainian artists working in video, animation and drawing. Curated by Lilia Kudelia and Janeil Engelstad, Vich-Na-Vich offers an intimate portrayal of Ukraine and considers the ways that artists address and record experiences of invasion and war. Honoring . . .
Presented as part of Aurora's Video Art Nights
Outdoor Projection
Friday, April 22, 2022
Pegasus Plaza1500 Main Street
Dallas, Texas 78201
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2022-03-18
Voices From Ukraine
Voices From Ukraine: Janeil Engelstad talks with photographers Elena Subach and Viacheslav Poliakov about the Russian invasion of their country and the impact of the war on their life and practice from the Western edge of Ukraine where they are volunteering to help refugees flee into neighboring Central European countries.
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2022-01-03
MAP Radio Hour
New episode of MAP Radio Hour.
The wonderfully thoughtful and creative Aida Sulova (KGZ) talks with
Janeil Engelstad about her recent exhibition “News From Central Asia,”
organized for The Jewelry Library in NYC and her practice building
communities and planting seeds for social change in Kyrgyzstan and the
US.
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2021-12-09
Fellowship
Thrilled to be named a 2022-23 COIL Fellow at University of Washington, Tacoma. Representing and working with UWT's Institute of Innovation and Global Engagement, where I am an Artist and Residence and Visiting Lecturer, I will be developing Collaborative International On-Line (COIL) pedagogy and course work around interdisciplinary practice.
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2021-10-12
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad in conversation with Albanian artist Endri Dani and Hungarian Artist Judit Kis
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2021-09-27
Essay
In the essay Voices From the Cetner published by the Fulbright Association, Janeil Engelstad reflects on her multi-platform oral history project that document changes in Central, Eastern since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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2021-08-16
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad in Conversation with curator Róna Kopeczky (HU) about the importance of caregiving and how that is central to her curation, feminism in the former communist bloc countries, the expanding notion of the print and more.
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2021-08-02
Sages & Seekers
“In sharing our stories, we find our commonality and where we meet as humans.” On The Hunt Institute’s Sages & Seekers Podcast, Janeil Engelstad discusses the power of collaboration, self-reflection, and gratitude.
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2021-07-01
Watch
Artist talk with Daniela Krajčova (SK) moderated by Lilia Kudelia and Janeil Engelstad, whose long-standing interest and work in the region
goes back to her teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in
Bratislava as a Fulbright Scholar in 2006 - 2007. Archived from June 10, 2021.
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2021-06-18
Press
Janeil Engelstad interviewed in Art and Seek about her organization, Make Art with Purpose's project, Let's Talk 3, a full color zine . . .
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2021-06-01
Article
Back Home: Reflection on My Residence at the Institute of Innovation and Global Engagement
When I was a child my father, who was born in Tacoma, would reminiscence about his
childhood days foraging for berries in the forests that ran up and into the edges of town. He
and
his cousin would camp on the land now occupied by the Tacoma Mall. My own history
includes undergraduate studies at UW, back when there was only a Seattle campus. So, my teaching and residency at UWT is a homecoming of sorts, underpinned by the lived
experiences of
growing up and coming of age in the region.
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2021-05-15
Talk
Residency Unlimited Talk
June 10, 2021 2 PM EDT
Janeil Engelstad part of virtual program/panel discussing the work of Slovak artist Daniela Krajčová produced by Residency Unlimited and Make Art with Purpose.
To register and for more information . . .
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2021-03-29
Artist in Residence
Happy to announce that I am a Visiting Lecturer and Artist in Residence at the Institute for Global Innovation and Engagement at University of Washington, Tacoma
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2021-03-20
Program
patch the sky with 5 colored stones
March 20, 6 – 7 PM EDT
Facebook
Live
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2021-03-01
Let's Talk #3
Edited and Art Directed by Janeil Engelstad and published by her organization, Make Art with Purpose (MAP), Let's Talk #3 addresses mental health. "Originally inspired by . . .
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2021-02-01
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad talks with Elizabeth Momoian and Robert Ferry the founding Co-Directors of the Land Art Generator.
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2020-12-04
Salon
MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain Virtual Salon organized and moderated by Janeil Engelstad
December 4, 6 - 7 EST, Live on Facebook
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2020-11-30
Grant
Red Bull Artist Grant awarded to Janeil Engelstad for her multi-platform project addressing COVID-19 currently in development.
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2020-11-19
Talk
Side by Side
Featuring Beili Liu & Aram Hand Sifuentes
Moderated by Janeil Engelstad & Jacqueline Chao
Crow Museum of Asian Art.
Friday, Nov 20, 4 PM CST, broadcast live on The Crow Museum's Facebook Page
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2020-11-08
Video
Janeil Engelstad in conversation with Aram Han Sifuentes for MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain.
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2020-10-21
Conversation
Appreciate technology to connect with and talk about my work and have conversation with graduate students at The New School / Parsons and at the same time the limitations of the virtual world make evident that gathering, connecting and exchanging in person is more generative all around.
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2020-09-05
Press
“Zest, Zeal, Verve” a collaborative civic mural project produced by Janeil Engelstad's Make Art with Purpose (MAP), CityLab High School and Eyecon Studios featured in Dallas Weekly.
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2020-08-30
MAP Radio Hour
Art and Protest: Janeil Engelstad in conversation with Aram Han Sifuentes
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2020-08-17
Art Dirt
Christopher Blay of Glasstire talks with Janeil Engelstad about the history and current projects of her organization, Make Art with Purpose for Glasstire's podcast, Art Dirt.
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2020-04-06
Cooped Up with the Carter
Janeil Engelstad talks about MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
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2020-03-15
MAP Radio Hour
In this addition of the MAP Radio Hour Janeil Engelstad is in conversation with artist Beili Liu about migration, trauma and motherhood and making art to address these issues.
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2020-03-02
Press
Glasstire article on MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain, a festival commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment organized by Janeil Engelstad
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2020-02-24
Talk
Janeil Engelstad will moderate a conversation by Beili Liu and Aram Han Sifuentes.
march 17, 6:30 PM
Crow Museum of Asian Art.Crow
2010 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
2010 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
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2020-02-20
Book
Janeil Engelstad and her collaborative national project Dialogues on Race, produced through her organization Make Art with Purpose (MAP) featured in Ethics in Design and Communication Critical Perspectives edited by Laura Sherling and Andrew Derosa, published by Bloomsbury.
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2020-02-07
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad in conversation with Ján Orlovsky, Director of Open Society Slovakia about the Velvet Revolution, life in post-communist Central Europe and
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2020-02-01
Upcoming
MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain, a festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. Organized by Janeil Engelstad through her organization Make Art with Purpose (MAP)
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2020-01-27
The Voices of Revolution
Janeil Engelstad in conversation with musician, founding member of Czech, female, rock band Zuby Nehty and feminist scholar Pavla Jonssonová and documentary film maker Anna Mydlarska, part of the press office for Solidarity in Gdansk, Poland and a translator for Lech Wałesa.
Listen as these women talk about revolution and the change from socialism to democracy in Central Europe on the MAP Radio Hour.
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2020-01-08
Reviews
Janeil Engelstad reviews of Franciszka Themerson at Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdańsk) and Laco Teren at Slovak National Gallery published in eutopia
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2020-01-06
Press
Cartographic Gestures, a project conceived and led by Janeil Engelstad through her organization, Make Art with Purpose, featured in article by Dan Singer for Dallas Morning News.
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2019-11-21
New Episode of MAP Radio Hour
A special series of MAP Radio Hour podcasts, Voices From the Center produced in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The series kicks off with a conversation between Janeil Engelstad and writer, curator and former Associate Director of the Polish National Museum, Piotr Rypson. Rypson reflects on the state of the arts in Poland, the legacy of communism in the arts, and how Polish artists are responding to contemporary issues
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2019-11-09
Voices From the Center
In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 and the Velvet Revolution on November 17, American artist Janeil Engelstad has updated and expanded her multi-form oral history project, Voices From the Center.
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2019-10-24
Conversation
3x5
Janeil Engelstad will present 3 current projects that interweave Art, Science & Tech at University of Texas, Dallas
Art and Technology's Watering Hole.
Friday, October 25, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
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2019-10-17
Press
KERA Public Radio / Art & Seek piece on murals in Dallas includes interview with Janeil Engelstad
Listen: https://artandseek.org/2019/10/16/all-those-murals-youve-been-seeing-theyre-not-just-in-deep-ellum/
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2019-10-15
State of the Arts Panel
The Dallas Museum of Art and KERA's Art & Seek fall panel discussion on the art of murals will feature Janeil Engelstad and other artists and cultural producers.
Thursday, October 24: 7:00 PM
Dallas Museum of Art, Horchow Auditorium
1717 N Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201
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2019-10-08
Talk
My Grandparents Are Not From Here
Migration, Immigration, and Displacement
Monday, October 14, 2019, 6:00 PM
KLUB
Šturova 11
Košice, Slovak Republic
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2019-09-16
Residency
First week of October Janeil Engelstad in residence at Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, in Gdańsk, Poland to work on the expansion and update of her oral history project, Voices from the Center
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2019-08-24
Workshop
Janeil Engelstad zine workshop at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Party on the Porch, which coincides with the launch of Make Art with Purpose (MAP) and the Carter's collaborative publication, "Together We Are," September 14, 2019, 4 - 9 PM
For More info: https://new.cartermuseum.org
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2019-07-26
Press
zakti, the specialty loose leaf tea company co-founded and co-owned by Janeil Engelstad featured in Dallas Morning News
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2019-07-06
Publication
Janeil Engelstad's participation in Azra Akšamija's Museum Solidarity Lobby with her exhibition Voices From the Center and her co-production of an installation of the project at Dallas Holocaust Museum featured in Akšamija's new book . . .
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2019-06-26
Interview
Interview with Janeil Engelstad about her work with MAP part of Culture Bank's Story Bank
Image: Ignite Ferris Plaza, public art piece led by Janeil Engelstad @Make Art with Purpose
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2019-06-18
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad talks with 91-year-old, Peruvian artist and activist, Victor Delfín. Recorded in Delfín's studio in Lima, the artist reflects on his life of creativity and political engagement from the 1950s . . .
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2019-05-30
Presentation
Janeil Engelstad to give closing presentation at the Annual Global Engagement Conference, University of Washington, Tacoma, William Phillips Hall, 4:30 PM, For more information:
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2019-05-07
Grant
Janeil Engelstad receives grant from Trust for Mutual Understanding for her fall 2019 work and travel in Central Europe to update and expand her oral history, exhibition and public art project, Voices From the Center
Image: Voices From the Center installation @ threewalls, Chicago
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2019-05-01
Publication
Essay by Janeil Engelstad, "Present, Engage, and Finally Love: The Art Conference as a Site of Action and Departure" published by Vernon Press in new book edited by Mary Sherman, International Opportunities in the Arts
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2019-03-10
Conversation
Janeil Engelstad participating in John Boylan's acclaimed Next Conversation series, Tuesday, March 19, 7 - 9 PM, Vermillion Gallery and Bar, Seattle
Image: Janeil Engelstad leading tea workshop while in residence at ArtMill, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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2019-02-23
WORKING GROUPS: Conversation
Please join the Working Groups Artists, Carolyn Sorter and Michael Morris together with Janeil Engelstad and Vicki Meek for a conversation about libraries, art and activism at 2:00 PM at The MAC, 1503 S. Ervay, Dallas, TX
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2019-01-05
LET'S TALK Issue #2 launch party
The Wild Detectives, January 17, 7:00 PM, Live music from Syria and Lebanon, Syrian food and conversation!
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2018-11-15
MAP Radio Hour
Janeil Engelstad in Conversation with Director and Writer Katt Lissard
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2018-08-20
Talk
Janeil Engelstad and Mark Randall in conversation with Dread Scott and Morehshin Allahyari
AMPL!FLY: Leveraging the Power of Art and Design to Advance Social Justice
September 6. 7:00 PM
Revolution Books
437 Malcom X Blvd.
New York
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2018-07-12
Press
Amplify Brings Social Justice Messages to Harlem by Marisol Rodrigues in Harlem Community News
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2018-07-01
Talk
Art: Connecting Humanity & the Divine
Sunday, July 15 9:30 AM
United Methodist Church of Dallas, Fiedler Atrium
Image: Janeil Engelstad, from her project and exhibition, Peace Room / Make Room for Peace
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2018-05-15
Press
Janeil Engelstad: Make Art with Purpose, in Dallas Doing Good by Liz Navarro
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2018-03-01
Publication
Discovering the Deep Blue: Research, Innovation, Social Engagement documents work done as part of National Academy of Science's 2016 Keck Futures Initiatives program
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2017-12-15
Press
Janeil Engelstad and Mark Randall's project AMPL!FLY: Leveraging the Power of Art and Design to Advance the Frontlines of Social Justice in GRAPHIC DESIGN USA
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2017-12-12
Press
Romulo Kiffer wrtites about“AMPLIFY: Avançando na Linha . . . ,” O Podcast dos Perrengues do Designer
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2017-12-05
Workshop + Talk
Janeil Engelstad and Mark Randall lead workshop for Adobe at Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
December 10, 2017
5:00 PM
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2017-11-30
Press
Steven Heller writes about AMPL!FLY in his article, “Design Aids Social Justice” in Print Magazine
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2017-11-15
Press
Janeil Engelstad and Mark Randall on Fox News New York tonight, 5:00, 6:00, 11:00 PM.
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2017-10-05
Screening + Panel
Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon directed by Andrea Simon (film website art directed by Janeil Engelstad)
Sunday, Oct 8 @ 7:15 PM
Studio Movie Grill 6
10110 Technology Blvd West
Dallas, TX 75220
Post Screening discussion with Andrea Simon, University of Texas Humanities Scholar Dr. Nils Roemer, and Janeil Engelstad. Moderated by Bart Weiss.
Studio Movie Grill 6
10110 Technology Blvd West
Dallas, TX 75220
Post Screening discussion with Andrea Simon, University of Texas Humanities Scholar Dr. Nils Roemer, and Janeil Engelstad. Moderated by Bart Weiss.
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2017-07-15
Publication
Let's Talk Issue#1 - Hablemos conceived and edited by Janeil Engelstad and published by Make Art with Purpose (MAP)
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2017-05-23
Live
Janeil Engelstad will be live from New York for the hour on Peace at Home a program broadcast nationally on
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2017-05-10
Presentation
Activation and Agency: Engaging Social and Environmental Concerns through Art and Design
Janeil Engelstad discusses her recent work at
National Academy of Sciences
D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
"Art, Science and Ocean"
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 6 PM EDT
Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001
Live webcast available here: https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396
National Academy of Sciences
D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)
"Art, Science and Ocean"
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 6 PM EDT
Keck Center
500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001
Live webcast available here: https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396
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2017-04-19
Visiting Artist
Janeil Engelstad
Parsons The New School of DesignNew York, NY
“Persuasion - Influenced by Design”
Visiting Artist
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2017-04-01
Press
Janeil Engelstad featured in Denisa Tomkova's article Arte hecho con la genre in Magis magazine a publication of ITESO, Universisdad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico
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2017-03-15
Press
Janeil Engelstad featured in Design Observer article by Mark Randall. "How Design Can Make A More Tolerant World."
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2017-01-03
Panel
Janeil Engelstad participating in
ADDRESSING ISSUES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY THROUGH THE ARTS
3:00PM SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2017 WINSPEAR OPERA HOUSE
2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Panelists include Terence Blanchard, composer and trumpeter; Carlos Donjuan, visual artist and Senior Lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington; Janeil Engelstad, Founding Director, Make Art with Purpose; Curtis King, Founder & Director, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc.; and David Lozano, Executive Artistic Director, Cara Mía Theatre Co.
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2017-01-01
Visiting Artist/Teacher
Janeil Engelstad will be teaching Alternative Processes in the Fibers Department at University of North Texas, Denton
Spring 2020
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2016-12-15
Visiting Artist
Janeil Engelstad will be in residence at the Center for Creative Connections at Dallas Museum of Art from January - March 2017.
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2016-11-29
Talk
Janeil Engelstad in Conversation with Newton Harrison at 9E2 Seattle
Friday, Nov 29, 6 PM
Union Station
605 5th Ave. S
Seattle
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2016-11-23
Curator
Janeil Engelstad is one of several curators organized by John Boylan for his project and exhibition 9E2 Seattle, art, science and technology festival that commemorates the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
October 23 - 31, King Street Station, Seattle
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2016-11-18
Keynote
MAP's Janeil Engelstad gives keynote address today the Texas Art Education Association's 55th Annual Conference
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2016-11-09
National Academy of Sciences Keck Future Initiative Participant
I am honored to have been selected as a participant in KECK - National Academy of Sciences Future Initiative Program.
This morning I am heading to Southern California where I will be participating in Discovering the Deep Blue - Research, Innovation and Social Engagement - a gathering of scientists, designers and artists organized by The National Academies Keck Future Initiative a program of the National Academy of Sciences.
The work ahead of is broadly framed as investigating the impact of climate change on the worlds oceans, broadening our understanding, sharing our individual resources in a collective and coming up with interventions, plans, action.
The work ahead of is broadly framed as investigating the impact of climate change on the worlds oceans, broadening our understanding, sharing our individual resources in a collective and coming up with interventions, plans, action.
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2016-08-30
Fulbright TIES
Janeil Engelstad one of several US State Department Alumni participating in an Alumni TIES (Thematic International Exchange Seminars) Seminar, Intersections: Climate Change, Global Affairs, and the Digital Age.
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2016-05-24
Press
Janeil Engelstad interviewed in Dallas Morning News article about her MAP project, Ignite Ferris Plaza.
Image: Janeil Engelstad working with Skyline students on Ignite Ferris Plaza plans
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2016-05-01
Talk
What if modernism had been characterized by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images – rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? What if this were the origin of the digital image in art?
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), founder of Make Art with Purpose (MAP) Janeil Engelstad and author Charissa Terranova will discuss the deep roots of the computational light-image, or the digital image now ubiquitous on the internet, within the life sciences and its connection to art.E.A.T. was an avant-garde collaboration between artists, scientists, and engineers – including Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer – that started in 1966 around the seminal series of performances 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering at the Armory in NY.
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2016-03-08
Art + Science Rendevous
March 30, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
University of North Texas, Denton
The art + science rendezvous is a discussion forum that fosters interdisciplinary networking.The University of North Texas is partnering with Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology to bring students and community members face-to-face with five panelists who will discuss their work in art + science. Janeil Engelstad will present MAP projects and programs and the importance of diversity and equity in this work.
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2016-02-28
Workshop
The Art of Connecting Worlds - Janeil Engelstad and Artist, Architectural Historian and Assistant Professor, MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program, Azra Akšamija produce workshop at MIT as part of Trans Cultural Exchange conference. The Art of Connecting Worlds brought together a range of international cultural practitioners - artists, curators, cultural producers and arts administrators - to identify aesthetic and ethical parameters, methodologies and tools for an emerging transdisciplinary field that Akšamija and Engelstad identify as the The Art of Connecting Worlds.
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2015-12-01
Book
Janeil Engelstad's essay MAP – Make Art with Purpose: Building Relationships and Initiating Change published in: Developing Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art Programs
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2015-10-16
Install
Installing Love is here to Fulfill Itself at Every Opportunity, Janeil Engelstad's prayer flags outside of Crow Collection of Asian Art for Aurora Biennale. Come out tonight to make your own prayer flags and meditate in outdoor mediation space designed by Engelstad.
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2014-12-15
Dialogues on Race
Janeil Engelstad organizing and leading community conversation on Racial Justice
Image: Electronic Billboard designed by Janeil Engelstad and Morehshin Allahyari
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2014-07-30
Publication
Special Issue of ArtMargins: Art and the Environment in East-Central Europe produced by Janeil Engelstad
Over a year in the making Art and the Environment in East-Central Europe explores artists and projects at the convergence of art, ecology and the environment from Poland south to the Balkans.
To read more and see the projects featured: http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/art-and-the-environment-in-east-central-europe-introduction
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2014-07-24
Review
And then I whirled at the sound of curated and produced by Janeil Engelstad reviewed by Byran Erickson in Art&Seek. "
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2014-07-14
Site Visit
Janeil Engelstad has been on location in Central Slovakia with Slovak artists and her former students Oto Hudec and Daniela Krajčová to take part in their arts education summer camps for Roma youth through their Projekt Karavan.
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2014-06-12
Catalog
The Workbook - MAP 2013 Catalog edited, art directed and forward by Janeil Engelstad release party on June 24.
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2014-06-08
Exhibition
AND THEN I WHIRLED AT THE SOUND OF
Experimental Music, Field Recordings, Sound Art
Curated by Janeil Engelstad
Oil and Cotton
Creative Exchange of Dallas
837 W. 7th Street. Dallas, Texas 75208
June 12 – July 27, 2014
Opening reception July 12, 2014 5:00 – 7:30 PM
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2014-05-03
Honored
Translating Culture . . . Community Voices at the DMA called out in Association of Art Museum Directors, Next Practices in Art Museum Education. Conceived by Janeil Engelstad . . .
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2014-04-04
Review
Janeil Engelstad reviews Rebecca Carter's exhibition Sleep Architecture and The Dream House at RE gallery + studio for EUTOPIA Contemporary Art Review
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2014-03-25
Curating
CODE YELLOW: Caution-Crisis-Critique curated by Janeil Engelstad, Greg Metz, Kael Alford, Mona Kasra, Max Schich and Laray Polk. A curatorial exercise exploring systems of real and perceived warnings. Six curators investigate how contemporary society visually registers and address concerns of vulnerability, struggle and crisis. Whether through direct or indirect action, humor, irony, or empathy via documentation, data, graphic depiction, media manipulation and social engagement.
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2014-01-20
Award
Janeil Engelstad was honored for her contributions to art and culture in Dallas in 2013 with the Mastermind award . . .
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2013-11-07
Conversation: Social Sculpture
Janeil Engelstad moderating conversation at Nasher Museum with Frances Whitehead, Matej Vakula and Vicki Meek
November 9, 2013 at 2:00 PM
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2013-10-20
State of the Arts
KERA Executive Producer Jeff Whittington will moderate a dynamic discussion at Dallas Museum of Art that explores the creative process and the current cultural landscape. Lecture tickets are $5. Purchase your ticket online or by phone at 214-922-1818. Participants: Christopher Blay Artist; instructional assistant and curator, The Art Corridor Galleries; Janeil Engelstad, Artist; founder, MAP - Make Art With Purpose; and Stephen Lapthisophon, Artist; visiting assistant professor of drawing, University of Texas-Arlington
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2013-10-06
Interview
The art group as activists: MAP 2013, Janeil Engelstad and its passionate plan, by Charissa Terranova
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2013-10-01
Conversation
THE ART OF SOCIAL PRACTICE A CONVERSATION
The Dallas Contemporary
Thursday Oct. 3, 7:00 PM
Panel Discussion featuring Janeil Engelstad / Make Art with Purpose, Rick Lowe / Project Row Houses and Vicki Meek, Artist and Curator. Moderated by Greg Metz, Professor of Art, University of Texas, Dallas.
Modern society and technology have made it very easy for the average individual to experience art passively without careful contemplation or necessary productive reaction. Many have combated this by developing artwork that aims to inspire more active social engagement. During the month of October Dallas will premiere the work of three renowned ‘Social Practice’ artists . . .
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2013-08-14
Pecha Kucha
Janeil Engelstad is participating in a Pecha Kucha marking the Texas Sculpture Association's 30th Anniversary
August 17 from 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
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2013-05-17
Conversation
Janeil Engelstad talks about founding Make Art with Purpose and MAP 2013 in an interview by Joshua von Ammon on "Conversations in the Void" an art / culture program in Dallas, Texas.
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2013-03-27
Press
Janeil Engelstad on KERA's Art & Seek about MAP 2013 today that really gets to the heart of the project.
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2013-03-07
Exhibition
Nation: Morehshin Allahyari and Janeil Engelstad, Eastfield College Gallery, March 4 – April 5 Reception: Friday, March 8, 6 – 9 p.m.
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2012-11-30
Talk
Janeil Engelstad participating in a group conversation, ILLUMINA at RE gallery + Studio, Dec. 2, 7 PM
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2012-10-30
UCSC Workshop + Roundtable
Artists, scientists, educators, environmentalists and others, including Janeil Engelstad met at the University of California, Santa Cruz about the planned S.S. Palo Alto ArtPark on the Monterey Bay in Aptos, California.
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2012-09-18
Exhibition
During the 2012 State Fair of Texas, Janeil Engelstad's exhibition, Y’UTOPIAS: An Almanac (of sorts) of Sustainable and Off-the-Grid Living in Texas at The Reading Room, located across the street from the fairgrounds will be a parallel universe to the official state fair. September 22 - October 21, 2012, Opening reception Sept 22 7-9 PM
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2012-09-02
Publication
The current issue of YoYo, titled R/Evolution, features work that is inspired by revolution, evolution and more. Janeil Engelstad's contribution of interviews and images from her project, Voices From the Center illuminate the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
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2012-07-06
Residency
Janeil Engelstad and Oto Hudec are in residence at ArtMill in Horaždovice, Czech Republic - in the lands traditionally known as Bohemia about 2.5 hours from Prague.
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2012-02-12
Voices From the Center reviewed in Flash Art
The Spring 2012 Czech Slovak edition of Flash Art magazine has reviewed Janeil Engelstad's pro Voicejects From the Center, which was produced in exhibition form at threewalls in Chicago.
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2011-10-30
Interview
ArtMargins podcast on the occasion of the exhibition Voices from the Center at threewalls gallery in Chicago, October 28 – December 10, 2011. The exhibition is an extension of a series of interviews with those living in Eastern Europe about life during and after communism by artist and curator Janeil Engelstad, beginning in 2006.
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