ABSTRACT
In recent years, Canadian and Australian art educators have become sensitized to cultural pluralism and the related issues of identity, representation and appropriation. This chapter explores the nature of collaboration as perceived by the artists, curators and educators. George Littlechild interprets the videoconferencing events as spatial and temporal gatherings to share ideas. Collaborating in the whole process of curating and pulling an exhibition together between the artists and curators is one element of putting the exhibition together that is pretty different from most situations. Blandy and Congdon (1993) have written about a project in which curatorial practices were conceived around notions of partnerships within a community. One of the features of qualitative research is the constant examination of what is so easily taken-for-granted. Often the examination of these taken-for-granted features lays the groundwork for a profound understanding.
