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A Gift Of Relationship
DePaul Magazine
The Weitz Family Foundation of Omaha recently elevated the Visual Art Education program at DePaul’s College of Education with a gift that establishes a new endowed chair and supports the program’s pioneering Stockyard Institute. Katie Weitz, the foundation’s executive director, shares how her own education, and her family’s charitable efforts, have been impacted by the Stockyard Institute’s community-engagement initiatives.
Building Up The Arts
Action in Education
A citywide arts initiative that works with underresourced communities will be able to widen its reach thanks to a generous new gift. The Stockyard Institute, described by its leaders as a “social practice project that uses relationships as the material,” was founded 25 years ago by Jim Duignan, an artist, associate professor, and founder and chair of the College of Education’s Visual Art Education program. The article discusses the work of the Stockyard Institute, its beneficiaries and its benefactors.