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ILLINOIS STATE UNIV.
ISU (student) History Club. January 29, 2020: Power-point overview of selected (A K Segan created) social justice artworks, starting with the (1972 ) Vietnam lino; several Warsaw ghetto uprising time-period (UTW series) drawings and Stroop Report photos; select Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series drawings of victims whose deaths made international news at the time of their murder or executions.
German Dept., Bloomington: Under the Wings slide lecture, organized by Prof. Dr Andy Weeks (2004)
Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. All-Campus invite: “From Metaphoric Wings to Allegorical Sea Monsters – Selected Holocaust and human rights education art by Akiva K. Segan.” Presentation by the artist; introduction by Jonathan Druker, Professor of Italian. Forty-five minute power-point, followed by Q&A time (January 2020)
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Illinois State Univ. Professor J. Druker introduces artist A. K. Segan (Jan. 30, 2020) (1 min., 43 sec)
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Q&A with artist/educator A. K. Segan, Il. State Univ., Normal, Jan. 30, 2020 (8 min, 13 sec)
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIV.
Ames Library, Bloomington: Exhibit tours with classes from Foreign Lang dept classes; Art dept. painting class; Yiddish Culture in Eastern Europe class; Hillel Jewish student organization group,; Educ. Dept classes of student teachers of History, French, Spanish and English (2006)
Ames Library, Beckmann auditorium, all-campus & town invite lecture, “Background to the Under the Wings of G-d and Sight-seeing with Dignity art series.” Organized by German language, literature Professor Dr. Sonja Fritzche (2006)
Art Dept classes, Slide lecture (2006)
Education Dept: UTW slide class; Drawing-for-Healing workshop (2006)
Foreign Lang. Dept: UTW slide class lectures (2004, 2006)
History Dept, Slide class lectures on Under the Wings art; Israel Bernbaum art from his book “My Brother’s Keeper” and art by Toby Knobel Fluek from her book “Memories of my life in a Polish village, 1930-49” (2006)
March 29, 2006. Press release page on Segan’s Holocaust, human rights Ames Library art exhibit & Beckman auditorium lecture.
AMES LIBRARY EXHIBIT tour w/ local Bloomington-Normal clergy, Sunday school teachers
Education Dept. Power-point with an Elem School Age Educ class (Jan. 28, 2020); Drawing for Healing workshop (Jan. 30, 2020)
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV.
Faner Hall Museum Auditorium, Carbondale: Slide Lecture. Introductions by (retired SIU School of Art studio art professor) Larry Bernstein; and (retired SIU School of Art - Art History professor) George Mavigliano (1996). Sponsored by SIU Hillel; SIU Alumni Assn; University Christian Ministries; Carbondale Peace Coalition (1996)
The Daily Egyptian (student newspaper), April 22, 1996, article: Holocaust portrayed in a different light by Gus Bode.
UNITY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Carbondale
Slide class; talk with original drawings from the wings series (1996).Video footage excerpt of Segan showing and talking about the original UTW drawing of Mordecai Anielewicz to a 4th grade class and students response (7 min., 58 sec).
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA
Department of Jewish Culture & Society. A power-point presentation by the artist, with Q&A: "From Metaphoric Wings to Allegorical Sea Monsters: Select tolerance, and Holocaust education art by Akiva K. Segan." (Feb. 3, 2020)
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVersity
In gallery slide lectures; exhibit tours. Exhibit organized by (now retired) gallery director John Graham. (2004)
Art History Dept: Lecture, Exhibit tour (2004)
History Dept class, lecture, exhibit tour (2004)
WIUM – 91.3 FM, Western Illinois University campus radio station, Macomb. 2004, April 6. Student reporter Jenna Richie interview w/ Segan about his educational art; aired that day (2006).