ABSTRACT
I begin this chapter with an epigrammatic manifesto: Art education is a political project that engages visual representations, cultural sites, and public spheres through the language of critique, possibility, and production. Art educators help students examine, understand, and challenge how individuals, institutions, and social practices are inscribed in power diff erently; to expand the conditions for freedom and equality, and radical democracy. Th ese are the elements and principles of a politically engaged and socially just art education. Th is is art education that takes seriously the notion of public pedagogy in visual culture.
