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Temple University – Public Engagement Lab
January 24, 2013

Public Engagement Lab draws on tools Foreign Exchanges has developed for college-age students and educators to build their skills of sustainability, including self-awareness, accountability, responsibility, communication, time management, inter personal skills, empathy and group cohesion.
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Emerging Focus Expo
January 19-21, 2013

Dorit Cypis participates as a distinguished reviewer for the Emerging Focus Portfolio Reviews in conjunction with photo l.a. 2013. Candidates are: emerging and professional contemporary artists using photography.
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The Visceral Viewer and the Court, 2000 – 2002

The Visceral Viewer and the Court was developed as college curriculum bridging aesthetics and social practice. Partnerships were developed between college/university art departments and California Superior Courthouses.
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Principals of Engagement
November 27, 2012

Leadership, Trust, Transparency, Active Listening, Reflection, Empathy, Reciprocity.
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A toolbox for more than just getting along…
November 27, 2012

When HOW WE CAN supports YES WE CAN change can happen.
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Psycho Portraits, 1993 – 1995

Psycho-Portraits are made from autobiographical and public domain pictures that each subject participant chose from his/her personal collection. The portraits evoke social and psychological layers of identity.
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Association for Conflict Resolution Conference
September 24, 2012

The Occupy movement has developed into a powerful global channel for civic dissent. Activists have embraced Occupy as a means for expressing frustration especially about increasing economic disparity.
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Public Programs Spring/Summer 2012
August 2012

Bridges to Unity and Re-Conciliation & Mediators Beyond Borders International
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Kulture Klub Collaborative, 1992 – present

Artist Dorit Cypis created Kulture Klub Collaborative in 1992 within Project OffStreets, a drop-in center providing crisis intervention services for homeless youth in Minneapolis.
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Friends Western School
August 19, 2012

I offered several conflict coaching sessions for the president of the Board of Directors and a five-hour facilitation session for fifty parent members of the K-6 school cooperative, including the parent member Board of Directors.
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Trainings Spring/Summer 2012
August 19, 2012

Trainings at Otis College of Art and Design, Valley Alternative Magnet School, Art Union, and International Association of Business Communications, San Diego.
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Living Buildings Act, 1979

Living Buildings Act, was presented at the Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.

"What is the GSA, the agency responsible for holding back and NOT passing on the presidency logistics baton to Biden/Harris?

In 1979 I spent the year negotiating with the GSA - General Services Administration of all USA federal buildings - to permit me to install and perform a daily ritual at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles - a ritual represented by...
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Recent Successful Mediations
August 16, 2012

Recent Successful Mediations at the Department of Graphic Sciences and Didier Hess.
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Kamikaze Exhibits: Thirty-One Exhibits
PØST | July 1 – June 31, 2012

...a prelude to The Life of Life by Dorit Cypis, with magician Blake Applegate.
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Foundation for Art Resources, FAR, 1977 – present

Foundation for Art Resources was founded by the innovative gallerists Morgan Thomas, Connie Lewallen, and Claire Copley, for the production and presentation of contemporary art projects outside of the gallery structure.
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The Very Eye of Night
JANCAR GALLERY | June 30 – July 28, 2012

Maya Deren’s historic film, The Very Eye of Night, is memorable for its experimental qualities, the mysteriousness of "diving into the abyss", the performative aspects of the dancers. Deren was a trailblazer incorporating many art genres and turning formal and narrative structures inside out and upside down. We chose these artists based upon their practice as it relates to this film.
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Identity and Institutionalization: Dorit Cypis on Minneapolis in the ’80s
THE WALKER ART CENTER | June 31, 2012

Politicized by the AIDS epidemic, the censorship of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography, and issues surrounding identity, the body, and sexuality, Dorit Cypis created multimedia works at the intersection of performance, photography, and social sculpture.
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Artist, Woman, Human: Feminism in Practice
MOCA | February 25, 2012

We will discuss conflicts between dogma and practice, defining “practice” as artistic, activist or even religious, with a focus on feminist histories.
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