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The non-college/university teaching sites list (Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Washington state) will be added soon. Sites include schools, houses of worship, worksites, museums, libraries, etc.

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Bloomington

  • 2004, Foreign language dept. lecture on UTW art series
    2020, Planned all campus invite presentation, late Jan - early Feb, sponsored by the Foreign Language department and the artist

  • 2006, Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 9 – 15. Ames Library exhibit, tours; slide class presentations in various academic departments, with presentations on UTW art; Toby Knobel Fluek, Felix Nussbaum art / All-campus & town invite lecture, Beckmann Auditorium: Background to the UTW & SWD series. The press release for the lecture. Segan art exhibit and Beckmann Auditorium lecture IWU website info page.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, FANER HALL MUSEUM AUDITORIUM LECTURE, Carbondale

  • 1996. Holocaust Memorial Day lecture. Several original wings series drawings were installed in the museum foyer for the reception. Holocaust portrayed in a different light by Gus Bode, April 22, The Daily Egyptian (student newspaper), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Macomb

2004, Gallery exhibit, tours. Slide class presentations with classes from various academic departments. WIU news exhibit news release.

STEPHENS COLLEGE, Columbia MO

  • 1996, Charters auditorium, all - campus invite lecture, Background to the UTW series

  • 2006, Selected UTW & SWD art. Tours; power-point classes at Charters auditorium and at classrooms in two academic departments. Feature article, The Columbia Missourian, on  Segan-led tour with 4th grade students from a local elementary school at the Davis Art Gallery exhibit, pub. March 28, 2006. Feature article, The Columbia Missourian, on the Davis Art Gallery exhibit, Stephens College. The article is misdated July 22, 2008; the article was published Feb. 27, 2006.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, Columbia

  • Spring 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006: Slide class presentations in various academic department classrooms, auditorium lectures, including Ellis Library auditorium; a Museum of Art and Archaeology auditorium lecture (’96); Hillel Center lecture for Holocaust Memorial Month (’96). See Teaching, Missouri, for Columbia School District primary, middle and high school listing presentations. Article in The Maneater, student newspaper, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, April 16, 1996.

  • Click for text of MIZZOU alumni magazine, winter 1998 issue article, Fallen Angels by Jon Beahler

Ithaca College, NY

  • Handwerker Gallery (2002).  Holocaust Memorial Week, 2 Segan presented lectures: Art of survivor artist Israel Bernbaum; Background to the Under the Wings series. The Handwerker presentations are mentioned and listed in The Ithacan, A Month of Programs Highlights Jewish Life (p. 6).

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE

  • 1999. Holocaust Remembrance Day, all-campus invite slide class lecture titled “On Wings of Angels: History and the Redemptive Power of Art.”

  • An Exploration of History & Memory through Art, Browsing Room, Knight Library / Issues of Memory Panel: Susi Rosenberg, A K Segan present their art ad discuss the memorialization of the Holocaust and the power of aesthetics to condemn or liberate. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Foreign Language dept presentation, Hebrew language class.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, BURKE MUSEUM

  • 1992. See Exhibits page (forthcoming). UTW drawings installation at opening reception of the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, BURKE MUSEUM, ORNITHOLOGY LAB

  • 1993. Segan displayed several wings series drawings for a community open walk through of museum lab areas not part of public galleries

CASCADIA COLLEGE, Bothell

  • 2015. Bothell CC Human Rights Awareness Month, Segan was one of the keynote speakers. My extemporaneous talk, presented without any projected images, was filmed. Group human rights exhibit: Segan led tours of his work. Power-point class: An overview of my social justice art, 1972 to 2015,  w/ art dept class. Cascadia College online blurb re speakers, artists: Meet the Participants (scroll down to Segan, click the link to open).

COVENANT HOUSE, CAMPUS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY STUDENT CENTER, Univ. of Washington campus

  • 1994. Slide class on the UTW series & Israel Bernbaum art

EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE, Olympia

  • Cross-Cultural Communication class. Exhibit tour with Q&A held at the Wing Luke Asian Museum exhibit of UTW art and photos about late Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho.

HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER, Univ. of Washington campus

  • 1992. Under the Wings and selected other art by A K Segan exhibit.

  • 2013. Exhibit of  UTW and SWD art. Tours at the opening reception; with seniors organized by Jewish Family Services of Seattle;  a closing tour attended by a Bellevue High School class, UW students, community residents.

PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, Tacoma

  • 2002. See Wing Luke Asian Museum listing, below on PLU German lang & lit class tour, workshop at the museum. 

  • 2003. Exhibit of UTW art at Mortvedt Library; one UTW work was displayed at the Hauge Administration building. Teaching: Segan led a library exhibit tour w/ a German language & literature students. Segan presented a slide lecture in a campus lecture hall; attendees included a Tacoma middle school class and teacher. First Drawing-for-Healing workshop facilitated with a German language & lit class.

SEATTLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  • 1998. UTW exhibit, tours. SIide class presentations, UTW & Israel Bernbaum art with classes from the Art dept; the English dept. A slide class on the art of Israel Bernbuam was presented with a Sociology dept. class, “Living, Death & Dying.” Presentation of an all-campus-invite wings series slide class.

  • 2013. UTW & SWD art exhibit, tours. Power-point classes; Drawing for Healing workshops with classes at various depts. An online reproduction of an SWD series exhibited drawing published in a Seattle tabloid. M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery online announcement of the exhibit. Feature article on Segan art exhibits at SCC, U Wash. Hillel, spring 2013, in Real Change weekly newspaper.

  • 2018: Power-point presentation (UTW, SWD series); followed by the Drawing-for-Healing workshop w/ an English dept. ESL class.

  • 2019: Power-point presentation (UTW, SWD series) with 2 combined ESL classes  (of 2 English dept professors w/ their respective classes). Followed by the Drawing for Healing workshop with each class in separate workshops.

  • Exhibit of selected Sight-seeing w/ Dignity human right art series drawings and 3 mosaic-drawing combos from the Under the Wings series. Scheduled for April 6 – 30, 2020. Tours, talks, power-point classes, and Drawing-for-Healing workshops will be scheduled with college classes.

SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

  • 1995. Art dept class, slide class on the UTW series and selected Israel Bernbaum art

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY

  • 2016, January 27: Holocaust, Genocide Awareness program art installation, student center: Two UTW series mosaic-drawing combos: Pére Jacques of France; Zlata Barshewsky of Bialstyok, Poland. Ten-minute background talk by the artist followed by Q&A with audience

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

  • 1995. Two programs: 1)  Slide class presentation in my art studio, Westworks Studios, Pioneer Square district, Seattle. 2) Class students made a multi-media presentation on Depictions of Women in War, including projections of UTW art series drawings

  • 2000. Human Rights Awareness program auditorium lecture: Holocaust Education through Art – “My Brothers Keeper,” paintings by Israel Bernbaum, and “Under the Wings of G-d,” drawings by Akiva Segan. Sponsored by the UW Human Rights Education & Research Network.

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITIES, TRI-CITIES

2007. Exhibit, tours; all campus, town invite auditorium lecture (2007) WSU exhibit press release.

WING LUKE MUSEUM OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC EXPERIENCE, SEATTLE

  • 2002. During the exhibit, Segan led 2 separate tours with univ/college classes: Tour with Pacific Lutheran Univ., Tacoma, class of German language & literature students and Professor Janet Holmgren, at the exhibit of five UTW artworks; photos on late Chinese diplomat and Righteous Person Feng Shan Ho*. The tour was followed with Segan’s facilitating a collective group poetry writing workshop. (That workshop, with permission of Leah Thorn, was based on her ‘Performance Poetry in Holocaust Education’ workshop that she facilitated at the Third Int’l Conference on the Holocaust & Education, Int’l School for Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 2002).

  • College class tour from Evergreen State College, see description listing, above. [*His name is written Ho Feng Shan in Wikipedia; the USHMM, Washington, D.C. writes his name as Feng-Shan Ho].