Keystone Edition Arts: American Dreams
Watch Monday, April 28th at 7pm on WVIA TV
Art can represent a connection to our communities and responsibilities as community members. Art plays a significant role in fostering respect between cultures, promoting solutions to community problems, and encouraging participation in democracy. Keystone Edition: Arts will explore examples of art that have effectively promoted civic responsibility and ask how communities can incorporate art into their civic activities to enhance participation.
Panelists
Oren Helbok
Since moving to central Pennsylvania in 1992, Oren has worked as a carpenter, furniture-maker, zoning officer, and independent school administrator; he now directs an arts-and-culture non-profit on Main Street in Bloomsburg, The Exchange; he helped found the organization in 2009. In 2001, Oren and his wife, potter Sara Baker, joined a dozen other artists to open the Artspace Gallery, and he served as its first treasurer; Oren’s involvement as a member of the gallery lasted as long as made furniture. In 2013 he made an unsuccessful run for a seat on Bloomsburg’s Town Council; among all of the non-profit boards and committees that he has worked with in Columbia and Montour Counties, the years of service now add up to more than his age. Oren lives with his family on East 5th Street in Bloom, within easy bicycling distance of almost everything.
Brian Carso
Brian Carso is Professor of History and Government at Misericordia University. Trained as both a lawyer and historian, he has long been interested in how political, intellectual, and legal ideas developed throughout the American experience, and how these ideas came to be expressed in broadly accessible political discourse and popular American culture. His book “Whom Can We Trust Now?” examines notions of treason and allegiance in law and culture, from colonial America through the Civil War. His most recent book is Gideon’s Revolution, a historical novel that tells the true story of a secret plot to capture Benedict Arnold following his treason at West Point in 1780.
Lalaine Little
Lalaine Bangilan Little is a first-generation Filipino-American who grew up in Houston, Texas. She is director of the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery at Misericordia University and adjunct professor in the department of Arts, Film, and Music. She has worked at a number of cultural institutions, including the Allentown Art Museum, the Forsyth Galleries at Texas A&M University, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. When she’s not teaching people how to pronounce her name she can be found walking and brushing her golden retriever named Buffy.
