1st Edition

Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices

Edited By Izabel Galliera, Noni Brynjolson Copyright 2025
278 Pages 10 Color & 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 10 Color & 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume highlights the historical, philosophical and theoretical legacies of pedagogical art and examines its connections with various forms of activism and institutional transformation. Chapters reveal interconnected concerns related to institutional power structures, systemic racism, sexism and gender biases in art institutions, exclusionary tactics of neoliberal corporate... Read more

Introduction: Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices

Izabel Galliera and Noni Brynjolson

Part 1: Pedagogies in Art: Histories, Theories and Philosophies

1. The Liberatory Lecturer: Cutting Through the Educational Fault Lines in Art and Politics

Derek R. Ford

2. Teaching Across and Beyond the Waves: Mónica Mayer and the Generative Legacies of Feminist Artistic Pedagogy in Mexico

Erin L. McCutcheon

3. Archives as Didactic Tools: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Emancipatory Pedagogies in East-Central Europe

Daniel Grúň

4. Radical Listening as Collective Education: Learning from Cádiz Carnival Music

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Elena Merino Rivera and Santiago Moreno Tello

5. Aesthetic Education in a Community Art Project in Rural China: A Case Study of the Shijiezi Art Museum

Yanhua Zhou and Jiao Xingtao

6. Pedagogy on Stage: Climate Change and the Performance-as-Lecture

Jeanne Tiehen

Part 2: Pedagogies as Tools in Institutional Transformations and Counter-Institutions

1. To Let the Art Do Its Job

Laura Raicovich

2. Reading Theory to Overcome Institutional Crisis: Colectivo Artificio’s Experiments in Dialogic Learning and Artistic Collaboration in El Salvador

Jasmine G. Magaña

3. Smoke and Mirrors: Fugitive Crip Way-Finding and Artful Deception in the Museum

Amanda Cachia

4. The Classroom as Borderland: Borderlands Art Pedagogy

Andrea Lepage

5. Challenging Institutional Narratives in the 21st Century: Visibilities, Museum Studies and the “Student Experience”

John Bodinger de Uriarte

Part 3: Pedagogies in Art and Activist Platforms

1. Communiversity: Inside and Outside Art Education

Daniel Tucker

2. Indigenous Pedagogies in Portage: Intimate and Collaborative Learning to Support Climate Adaptation

Jessica Santone and Jen Rae

3. Throwing Stones at the Wall: Pedagogical Art and the Immovability of Museums

Allison Rowe

4. Socially Engaged Art and Pedagogical Experiments from Contemporary China

Meiqin Wang

5. Edupropaganda: Education in an Illiberal Democracy

Szabolcs KissPál

6. A Conceptual Artist in Every School

Jorge Lucero                                                                                                                               

Biography

Izabel Galliera is the Dorothy and Dale Thompson Missouri Endowed Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA. She is the author of Socially Engaged Art After Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (2017 and 2022).

Noni Brynjolson is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA. She has published essays in a number of edited books and journals and is a member of the editorial collective of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism.