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The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education

Edited By Manisha Sharma, Amanda Alexander Copyright 2023
    428 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    428 Pages 131 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines.

    Visual and traditional essays in this book combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. Across three sections (creative shorts, enacted encounters, and ruminative research), a diverse group of authors address themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital realm. Chapters highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers grapple with decolonial methods, theories, and strategies—in research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice. Each chapter includes discursive questions and resources for further engagement with the topics at hand.

    The book is targeted towards scholars and practitioners of art education, studio art, and art history, K-12 art teachers, as well as artist educators and teaching artists in museums and communities.

    Introduction

    PART I Creative Shorts

    1. A Is For Alphabet: Reimagining Language And Mastery As A Creative Meandering 

      2. Marianna Pegno and Anh-Thuy Nguyen

    2. Critical Reflections on Teaching as a Decolonial Practice 

      3. Maria Leake

    3. Angrez chale gaye, Angrezi chod gaye: Post-coloniality of Language 
      Nupur Manoj Sachdeva

      4.

    4. Mind the sky (or forgetting and the imposed futurity of the present): A poem 

      5. Shanita Bigelow

    5. Assembling Desire 

      6. Leon Tan, Mriganka Madhukaillya and Cristina Bogdan

    6. lutruwita/Tasmania’s Fauna: Artistic Imaginings With Native Wildlife  

      7. Suzanne Crowley

    7. Reclaiming Dreams of our Shared Future: Decolonizing Metanarratives Around What Can/Should/Will Be Through Imaginative Diegesis 

      8. Stephanie Jones and James F. Woglom

    8. A Palimpsest of Pulverization in Occupied Palestine: Artistic Intervention as Counter-Representation on the Mediterranean Coast 

      9. Taylor Miller

    9. Time to Trespass: Annotations to 13 Appearances 

      10. Raqs Media Collective

    10. From Art to Artifact: A Sestina on Public Art Policy in Confederate Monument Removal Case Law 

      11. Kristi W. Arth

    11. Co-Creating Fine Arts Learning: Decolonial & Intersectional Strategies 

      12. Logan McDonald

    12. Hilando Historias y Territorios: Textile Cartography of Contemporary Indigenous Communities 

      13. Bianca Castillero-Vela

      PART II Enacted Encounters 

    13. In Fontaine’s Footsteps: Students’ Visual Essays Tackle the Difficult History of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools 
      Agnieszka Chalas and Michael Pitblado

      14.

    14. Unsettling Colonial Narratives in the Art Museum 

      15. Grace VanderVliet and Ozi Uduma

    15. Transborder Provocaciones through Lozano-Hemmer's Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo Public Art Installation 

      16. Andrea Blancas Beltran and León De la Rosa Carrillo

    16. Creating Máscar(a/illa)s: A Decolonizing Us-ing 

      17. Rebecca Christ, Bretton Varga and Timothy Monreal

    17. Decolonization of Theater Education: An Examination of the Collective Creative Process Through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 

      18. Maria Cristina Leite, Luiz Ernesto Fraga, Marcio Saretta et al.

    18. Cultural Networking, Storytelling and Zoom during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Conversations with African-Caribbeans on using a Decolonized Digital Arts-based Educational Platform 

      19. Judith Bruce-Golding and Sue Brown

    19. Art as a Bridge for Decolonizing Grief and Accessing My Neuroqueer Spirit 

      20. Corey Reutlinger

    20. Transgressive Enactments: Research-Creation as Anti-Colonial Praxis 

      21. Kimberley White

    21. Outside the Classroom & Outside the Books: Extending the Classroom for "Antiessentialist" Curriculum  

      22. Rebecka Black and Thomas Keefe

    22. Explorations for Decolonizing the Curriculum Regarding Technology   

      23. Michelle Tillander

    23. Activating Curiosity, Heart, and Artistic Identity to Engage Ecojustice 
      Jonathan Silverman

      24.

    24. Imagining our Neighborhood of Nonhuman Residents: Sensorial Attunement as Ecological Aesthetic Inquiry 

      25. Cala Coats, Shagun Singha, Steven Zuiker et al.

    25. Root A/r/tography from Native Seeds   
      Jun Hu, Xueyin Li, Lipeng Jin et al.

      26.

      PART III Ruminative Research 

    26. Artistic Practice as Land Acknowledgement 

      27. Prashast Kachru

    27. Beyond the Veneer of Modernism: Aesthetics, Post-Africanity and the ‘Multiversum’ Narrative 

      28. Frank AO Ugiomoh

    28. Exorcising the Colonialist: The Cuna Figures of the San Blas Islands and other Forms of Mimesis and Mimicry 

      29. Alice Wexler

    29. A Critique of Grand Hegemony: Disrupting Historical Valuations of Public Space
      Through Pervasive Gaming 

      30. Lillian Lewis and Veronica Hicks

    30. Art Education and entangled knowledge in the digital age: Learning from Tabita Rezaire’s Premium Connect 

      31. Kristin Klein

    31. Raranga and Tikanga Pā Harakeke – An Indigenous Model of Socially Engaged Art and Education 

      32. Leon Tan and Tanya White

    32. Decolonization and the Degeneralization of Time in Art Education Historiography 
      Juuso Tervo

      33.

    33. Nepantlando: A Borderlands Approach to Curating, Art Practice, and Teaching 

      34. Leslie C. Sotomayor II and Christen Sperry García

    34. Crafting Criticality Into My Wayfaring Jewish Ancestors’ Colonial Trade Connections 

      35. Esther Fitzpatrick

    35. Decolonizing Blood, Body and Brain: From the Visual Practices of Jonathan Kim 
      Boram Lee and Jonathan Kim

      36.

    36. Decolonizing Formal Art Education in Germany 

    Ernst Wagner

    37. Towards Frontiers of Decolonization in Contemporary Nigerian Art Markets 

    Samuel Egwu Okoro and Soiduate Ogoye-Atanga

    38. Histories and Pedagogics from the Underside(s) of Modernity 

    Dalida María Benfield and Christopher Bratton

    Afterword 

    Biography

    Manisha Sharma is Professor and Chair of Art Education at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA. She is an arts educator, artist, and researcher focused on how perceptions of culture and community are formed, internalized, and acted out within various communities, through the production and consumption of art and visual culture artefacts.

    Amanda Alexander is Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, USA. She is a community-engaged arts researcher who connects with sites of cultural and artistic (re)production including schools, museums, community arts organizations, and international cooperative groups. Dr. Alexander is centrally concerned with art education students’ ability to be more civically engaged individuals, see art as a means to make meaning, and have an interdisciplinary, global perspective.

    "This book is for those that are searching for theory, curriculum, and pedagogy through the lens of self-determination. It is divided into three sections. The authors include engaging questions at the end of the chapters that assist in providing self-reflection. … Incredible!" Christine Ballengee-Morris, The Ohio State University, USA

    "This remarkable book centers art and art education as a powerful force for postcolonialism and decolonization. With a tremendous range of diverse international voices taking up an exciting range of scholarship, the book is truly one of a kind. It is magnificently unique in its embrace of decolonization as a focus for rethinking the structures and content of education and as a rebellious text that questions the colonized norms of scholarship by offering an array of artful, reflexive, and performative texts. An utterly powerful book that all art educators must read!" Rita L. Irwin, The University of British Columbia, Canada

    "Art as a concept is not currently built upon a foundation by which diverse humans demonstrate their self-determined creative, aesthetic and meaning-making capacity. Instead, systems of colonization continue to largely limit the engagement of our imaginations across worldviews. This book is one embarkation for building the creative consciousness necessary for diverse humans finally to breathe life into art and the world." Cristóbal Martinez, Arizona State University, USA

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