Full Description
This collection considers how Canadian art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, and why educators are responding to 21st century challenges in ways that are unique to Canada.
Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and how practices create impactful change.
With the overarching concept of relationality between art museums and interdisciplinary perspectives, authors consider methodological, philosophical, experiential and aesthetic forms of inquiry in regional museum contexts from coast-to-coast-to-coast that bring forward innovative theoretical standpoints with practice-based projects in museums, articulating how museums are shifting, and why museums are evolving as sites that mediate different and multiple knowledges for the future. Informed by social justice perspectives, and as catalysts for public scholarship, each chapter is passionate in addressing the mobilization of equity, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in relation to practices in the field.
By weaving the learning potential of interacting with artworks more fully within situated and localized social and cultural communities, the authors present a distinct socio-political discourse at the heart of teaching and learning. Rupturing preconceived ideas and sedimentary models, they suggest a discourse of living futures is already upon us in museums and in art education.
Contents
Land Acknowledgment
Acknowledgement
A Prelude to Art Education in Canadian Museums - Anita Sinner, Boyd White and Patricia Osler
Introduction - Richard Lachapelle
Part 1: Aesthetic Relations
1. Setting the Objects Free: Experimenting with Alternative Narratives and Unheard Voices at the Aga Khan Museum - Ulrike Al-Khamis
2. Immanence and Being with Contemporary Art - Fiona Blaikie
3. Defining Artful Literacies: Adolescent Affects, Belonging and Cross-sectorial Creativity - Amélie Lemieux and Emma Beaton
4. Artful Moments: A Framework for Engagement and Social Connection - Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Janis Humphrey and Maureen Montemuro
5. Sensory Learning in Cultural Institutions: Sensory Experience, Aesthetic Sensibility and Intercultural Learning in Garden Settings - David Bell
6. The Poetry of Travelling Concepts: A Movement-Based Pedagogy - Marie-Hélène Lemaire
Part 2: Learning Relations
7. Unpacking the Canon Within: Using Phenomenological Art Inquiry to Decolonize - Shannon Leddy
8. Starvation Plates: A Fine Art Example of Educational Interpretation Design - Richard Lachapelle
9. Towards Decolonization and Indigenization of Historical Knowledge and Practices at University: A Collaboration between a History Museum and an Undergraduate History Course - Emmy Côté
10. The Pedagogic Potential of Interpretive Spaces in Art Exhibits: Examples from the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery - Agnieszka Chalas and Stephen Lavigne
11. Arts Inclusion: The Joy of Collaborative Community Art Programmes - Dale Sheppard
12. Advancing Inclusion as Social Justice: When Museums Become Spaces of Belonging That Support Diverse Learning Experiences - Darla Fortune
13. Sharing the Museum: Rethinking Cultural Mediation and Museum Education - Anik Meunier and Jason Luckerhoff
14. Connecting to the Museum Experience: The Beauty of Human Complexity in Action - Anne Marie Émond
Part 3: Site Relations
15. Researching and Reclaiming Edmonton's Queer History: Que(e)rying Curatorial and Archival Practice Through a Community-Based Public Art Exhibition - Michelle Lavoie and Kristopher Wells
16. What Can a University Gallery Do? - Pauline Sameshima
17. Clay in the Museum: Connecting Through Ceramics - Sequoia Miller, Farrukh Rafiq and Nahed Mansour
18. Augmented Reality and Museum Education: Rethinking Interactive Learning Experiences in Museums - Quincy Qingwen Wang, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Paula MacDowell
19. The Promise of New Museum Models in a Moment of Social Reckoning - Paola Poletto and Devyani Saltzman
20. Visiting the Dalton Trail Gallery: Performing Place-Making, Sharing Locality - Nicole Bauberger
Biographies
Index
