ABSTRACT
This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines.
Visual and traditional essays in this book combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. Across three sections (creative shorts, enacted encounters, and ruminative research), a diverse group of authors address themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital realm. Chapters highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers grapple with decolonial methods, theories, and strategies—in research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice. Each chapter includes discursive questions and resources for further engagement with the topics at hand.
The book is targeted towards scholars and practitioners of art education, studio art, and art history, K-12 art teachers, as well as artist educators and teaching artists in museums and communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|83 pages
Creative Shorts
chapter 7|8 pages
Reclaiming Dreams of Our Shared Future
chapter 8|7 pages
A Palimpsest of Pulverization in Occupied Palestine
chapter 10|3 pages
From Art to Artifact
chapter 12|7 pages
Hilando Historias y Territorios
part II|114 pages
Enacted Encounters
chapter 13|10 pages
In Fontaine's Footsteps
chapter 17|9 pages
Decolonization of Theater Education
chapter 18|10 pages
Cultural Networking, Storytelling, and Zoom during the COVID-19 Pandemic
chapter 21|7 pages
Outside the Classroom and Outside the Books
chapter 24|9 pages
Imagining Our Neighborhood of Nonhuman Residents
part III|164 pages
Ruminative Research