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Egda Claudio Selected as A Recipient of a 2020 Graduate Student Excellence in Visual Arts

Published January 29, 2021

Edga Claudio, a second year PhD student in the Art Education Department, has been selected as a recipient of a 2020 Graduate Student Excellence in Visual Arts Award. Speaking about her work Claudio states, “Through my research I have used visual arts, design and performance to investigate topics like migration, identity, and displacement. I have also investigated the social justice visual arts curriculum as a decolonizing practice and our role as educators to implement this. As a vernacular language, visual arts and design play a major role in my research. It is through art-making that I conceptualize ideas analyze and arrive to findings and conclusions. This language allows me to tell untold parts of

stories and expose the information that hides in-between the lines in a way that only art expression can achieve. Working closely with critical theory, design has allowed me to create metaphors through strong conceptual work that evokes consciousness and gives visibility to ignored issues. This practice has allowed me to advocate for critical issues in these contemporary times we are living of civil unrest.”