Full Description
These stories from art educators highlight how art and visual culture can bridge learning with lived experience. Written by and for art educators from all backgrounds and contexts, this volume offers guidance for expanding students' opportunities to critically examine current events, histories, and cultural assumptions in ways that are relevant and inclusive of all identities. Readers will learn how to use contemporary art and dialogue as tools to acknowledge and value the unique perspectives of each person. Authors from diverse settings offer topics, insights, resources, and research for centering voices and critical conversations in K-12, higher education, museums, and nontraditional classrooms. The book addresses such questions as:
How can a teacher reflect on their own assumptions and biases before crafting lessons and discussion prompts?
In what ways can contemporary art encourage dialogue in art learning spaces?
What happens when current national issues intersect with the personal lives of students?
How can teachers democratize the classroom so all students are represented?
How can teachers demonstrate ways to critically examine information?
Book Features:
Offers insights from art educators in public, independent, museum, and community settings.
Addresses the role of art teachers in responding to the current highly politicized educational climate.
Critically examines concepts of practice, power, and vulnerability in teaching.
Discusses issues of race, LGBTQ+ rights, family structures, current events, democratic values, and social change as they concern students.
Provides examples of dialogue in various art learning spaces and contexts.
Contributors include JaeHan Bae, Kathy J. Brown, Lauren Cross, William Estrada, Pamela Harris Lawton, Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, Natasha S. Reid, Kryssi Staikidis, and Injeong Yoon-Ramirez.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
Preface Connie Stewart
Introduction
Connie Stewart, Eli Burke, Toya Northington, and Lisa Hochtritt
Section I: Conversations in Art Educational Settings
This section presents educational practices where students engage in deeper conversations in a complex world.
1.1. Exploring Divergent Topics with Divergent Thinking Strategies: A Visual Narrative
Rebecca Shipe
1.2. Let's Talk: Engaging in Critical Conversations in the Art Room
Amy Pfeiler-Wunder and Mary Kate Bergh
1.3. Children Can Talk About Hard Things
Kimberly Lane
1.4. Investigating Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Amy Felder
1.5. Challenging Content and Critical Conversations in the Classroom
Kryssi Staikidis
1.6. "Yes, and..." Extending Conversations in Art Classrooms
Nikki Sandschaper
1.7. Challenging Implicit Bias: Using contemporary art to understand the power of personal autonomy
Kristin A. Ponden
1.8. Approaching a Liberatory Future of Museum Education: Reflections on Practice and Pedagogy
Ariana Robles, Amara Higuera, Gladys Preciado, and Alice Bebbington
1.9. Addressing Facilitator Power in Youth Museum Programs
Simona Zappas
1.10. Rethinking Feelings in Anti-Racist Art Pedagogy
Injeong Yoon-Ramirez
1.11. Shifting the Conversation: Scaffolding Sociocultural Dialogue in the Elementary Art Classroom
Beth Link
1.12. Artistic Responses to Race
Naomi Lifschitz-Grant, Robb Epps, and Taylor Styles
1.13. Using Group Reflection and Dialogue as tools for Antiracist Teaching
Amanda Tobin Ripley, Hannah Heller, and Michelle Antonisse
1.14. Shaming Queerness in Art Spaces: Would You Change That If You Could?
Libya Doman
1.15. Rethinking Disability in Art Classrooms
Kelly M. Gross
Section II: Structuring the Learning Environment for Open Discussion
This section describes learning climates where vulnerability and opinions are honored.
2.1. Creating Spaces to Support Difficult Dialogues
Lisa Hochtritt
2.2. Centering Culture Through Critical Conversations
Katie Coogan and Margaret Walker
2.3. Conversations over Wi-Fi: Reorienting Student-Centered Art Discussions Online
Ashley Mask
2.4. Building Community by Using Opening and Closing Circles
Valeska Maria Populoh
2.5. Gallery Art Hive as Dialogic Space
Natasha S. Reid
2.6. Artists as Activists: Engaging Middle School Artists in Creating Art That Matters
Julie Toole
2.7. Finding the Hidden Questions
Alice C. Pennisi
2.8. Talking about Art: When Questions Are the Answer
Erica Richard
2.9. Critical Conversations in Conservative Communities
Kelly Beach, Diana Montano, and Connie Stewart
2.10. Facilitating Dialogue about Loss and Grief in the Gallery
Harrison Orr and Carissa DiCindio
2.11. How Superficial Themes in the Art Classroom Can Erase the Narrative of Marginalized Students and Communities
Ketal Patel
2.12. Problematizing Conversations: Creating Art to Engage in Difficult Discussions
William Estrada
2.13. Two Colleagues Talk about Care: Responding to the Emotional State of Our Students
Chris Cain, John Humphrey, with Connie Stewart
Section III: Inviting Reflective Stories
This section demonstrates the importance of personal narratives and the role of story in affecting change.
3.1. A Not-So-Queer Education
Eli Burke
3.2. Story as Pedagogy: Narrative Co-Inquiry with Teachers, Students, and Communities
Pamela Harris Lawton
3.3. Generating LGBTQ+ Community Through Dialogue
Adam J. Greteman, Nic M. Weststrate, and Karen Morris3.4 Power Play in the Art Critique - Kerry Downey and Aparna Sarkar
3.5. Negotiating White Privilege in a Visual Culture Intervention
Lisa Novak and Breckon Chastain
3.6. Critical Conversations in Art History: The State of the Field from Students' Perspective
Becky Black, Aiyana Cady-Alviar, Damaria Moye, and Denise Zubizarreta
3.7. Opening a Conversation About Adoption Through the Artwork of JooYoung Choi
Borim Song
3.8. Art and Compassionate Dialogue: Finding and Giving Voice Through Intuitive Knowing and Artistic Research
Rébecca Bourgault and Catherine Rosamond
3.9. Questioning White Privilege Through Contemporary Art
Donalyn Heise and Alisse Guerra
3.10. Investigations of Racism through a Hexagon Project in an Online College Art Methods Course
JaeHan Bae
3.11. Giving Voice to the Story of Migration
Naomi Lifschitz-Grant, Allison Ellis, and Catherine Holmes
3.12. Fifth Dimension Discourse: Afrofuturism and the Creation of Brave Spaces in Art Teaching
Kathy J. Brown and Lauren Cross
3.13. Start Where You Are
Toya Northington
Section IV: Resources That Inspire
This section includes recommended resources provided by the contributors when asked, "What are your 2-3 go-to resources to inform critical conversations?"
