Full Description
Responding to an absence of Latine and Chicane artist and teaching resources, Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching shows how artists and educators can use borderlands, in-between geographical, emotional, cultural, and conceptual spaces, in three ways: theory, art practice, and teaching.
Throughout this teaching-oriented text, the authors draw from borderlands theories and apply them to visual art and teaching. This volume centers art making and teaching practices based on borderlands lived experiences that are not commonly taught in higher education. Making productive the rupture and fragmentation that occurs in borderlands spaces, this text explores ways in which artists rebuild and become whole again through the process of making art. Using hands-on approaches, the authors model how to use borderlands theories in the classroom by employing arts-based and teaching methodologies. This includes access to Latine and Chicane centered digital information, interactive classroom activities, artist resources, and beyond the classroom learning experiences.
Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching offers artists, students, and educators art making and teaching approaches that are centered on Latine and Chicane theories and concepts.
Contents
Introduction: Las Rajaduras (Gaps) and Los Puentes (Bridges) within Art Education
PART I: Theorizing Art Borderlands
1 Framing Creative Acts through Chicana Feminist Epistemologies
2 Nepantlando as Methodology
3 Praxis: Epistemology of Testimonios, Cultural Memory, and De/colonization
PART II: Making Art Borderlands
4 Visual Plática: An Act of Nepantlando
5 A Visual Plática en Dos Partes (Two Parts)
6 Temporal Homes: Borders in the Body
7 Studio as Activating Healing: Latine Speculative Art with Jorge Elías Gil
8 Visual Translanguaging: From Los Doyers to Lonche
9 Zines de Nepantla: Autohistoria-teoría through the In-Between
10 Food Nepantla: Cocin-epantla, Nepant-labeling, and Nepantla-maginery
PART III: Teaching Art Borderlands
11 Latinx Thriving: Culturally Sustaining Arte Pedagogies
12 Nepantlando Workshops
13 Chicane and Latine Art Resources
