Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (Online)

Cross-cutting Issues in DL and Black MasculinitiesThis paper builds on the literature and seeks to explore the ways in which Black male sexualities, broadly, and Black gay male identities, specifically, is and has been negotiated in visual culture in...

Lying is done with words, and also silence.Adrienne RichArt educators are embedded in the daily work of curating knowledge, spinning stories into lessons, and drawing inspiration from art history. This process is highly subjective and the weight of our...

Whiteness, Artist Identities, and Artworld SpacesAt the 2018 Art Education Research Institute (AERI) panel, "Race and Racism in 21st Century Art Education," with Joni Acuff, B. Stephen Carpenter, Amelia Kraehe, Michelle Bae Dimitriadis, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández,...

White Supremacy in the ClassroomDuring a critique in a first-year university studio art course, the class was discussing an artwork created by a young woman. She used inexpensive common objects one would find in a grocery store to create her piece, including...

"Sometimes being white and writing sympathetically about artists of color, you feel you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't, and the only way to continue is to be willing to have your foot in your mouth half of the time."Lippard, 2008, p. 128"(I)ndian,...

"The white power bloc develops a bag of tricks to mask its social location, making use of disguises, euphemisms, silences, and avoidances" (Steinberg & Kincheloe, 2009, p. 16).In my graduate course, "Critical Analysis of Multicultural Art Education,"...

Art museums are institutions that preserve collections of artifacts and creative works that hold cultural, artistic, and historical significance. Such institutions often have a mission to share these important works with the public through permanent...

IntroductionIn this paper, I reckon with my efforts to understand how, why, and whether I should tell the story of my complicities in white racism as an art educator and researcher. Through auto-ethnographic research, I discovered how discourses of whiteness...

Becoming a Woman of ColorI was born to Latin-American parents and raised in Miami, Florida. In 2014, I moved to Baltimore, Maryland, a mid-sized urban city, to teach at a well-known art college. Living in this new city created experiences, or encounters,...

We (Diane Kuthy and Olivia Robinson) met through Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA), an educational and activist group which has been going strong in Baltimore, Maryland, USA for over fifteen years. BRJA fights against racism and other intersecting...

With the increasing attention to social justice, there have been an abundance of studies discussing theories and practices of art education for diversity and social justice. According to the study conducted by Milbrandt, Miraglia, and Zimmerman (2018),...

In this article, we trace a history of white supremacy in our art and design college by unearthing racist images in our archival library textbooks and identifying the presence of such history as a defining legacy. We then describe a video intervention...

She colored the grass blue.As if sun could sweepunder her feet. Lift heras droplets into air,into wide sky without frame.Carry her to better,to anywhere else but here.When my niece was in kindergarten, her teacher offered her a coloring worksheet, a...

Whiteness1 Is a Force in Art EducationWhiteness is and has been a powerful force in education, especially within art education. In art education, the racial and gender disparities of both the art world and the realm of education intersect creating a...

Whiteness is a complex, hegemonic, and dynamic set of mainstream socio-economic processes, and ways of thinking, feeling, believing, and acting (cultural scripts) that function to obscure the power, privilege, and practices of the dominant social elite....

This article discusses how Whiteness impacts the discipline of education, and in particular, art education. We posit Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Crenshaw et al., 1995) as a critique of the prevailing dominant racial construct of Whiteness. CRT aids our...

A note to the reader: As you read this essay, you'll notice several unconventional notes in the text. I have included the comments of one of the reviewers as they provide important markers of the ways in which the very whiteness I am trying to write...

Teachers are often among the group most reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which white supremacist thinking informs every aspect of our culture including the way we learn, the content of what we learn, and the manner in which we are taught.bell hooks,...

I am a white, female artist-teacher working in the northwestern United States. My artistic inquiry investigates cultural contexts around women, mothering, and whiteness in the U.S. middle class. The artworks highlighted in this paper aim to guide viewers...

Over the last decade, educators and researchers interested in social justice education have concerned themselves with centering the study of Whiteness in their work (Bonilla-Silva, 2001; Delgado & Stefancic, 1997; DiAngelo, 2012; Lipsitz, 1995)....

In July 2017, Arts House in Melbourne, Australia1 held an event titled, "Art & Action: Displacing Whiteness in the Arts." The discussion was hosted and developed by invited Latinx artist-researcher Tania Cañas, in collaboration with Arts House producer...

Whiteness is a racial discourse, whereas the category "white people" represents a socially constructed identity, usually based on skin colour. (Leonardo, 2009, p.169). White-ness, in this sense, refers to a set of assumptions, beliefs, and practices...

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.Rebecca Solnit, 2016, p. 77IntroductionJoni Acuff's call for this special issue forthrightly directs White art educators "to more critically and intentionally engage in race work (Acuff, 2018, p....

IntroductionThis paper is co-authored by two art museum educators and art education scholar-practitioners; one is a Black biracial Trinidadian and the other a White American. This paper looks at Afro-Caribbean art and culture, and explores the impact...

While there is no consensus theorizing art practice, art practice as research (APR) can be a site for knowledge construction and meaning making, situated in global systems, communities, and cultures. These global systems are not homogenous but represent...

Aesthetics is of necessity concerned with differences in the ways of sensing and seeing that distinguish artists, tastes, and sensibilities.Gaining mastery of the whole of "global aesthetics" may be an unachievable goal-but learning more is not so difficult....

Over the years, the issue of comfort women has received increased attention. "Comfort women" is a euphemism for the girls and women who were forced into sexual servitude for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during WWII. Although this issue may seem to...

My work as an art educator at the University of Lapland (UoL)1 is largely connected to the multilayered context of the Arctic. Its features, cultures, and circumstances blended with global perspectives lay the groundwork for the art practices we carry...

AUTHOR NOTE: In this visual essay, the term "difference" is broadly defined and should provoke multiple interpretations. Nevertheless, relating this term to specific topics such as differing value systems or socio-cultural characteristics positions the...

Anthropological and philosophical studies suggest that art is common to every culture, everywhere, throughout time (Langer, 1966). This description makes art in itself borderless. Art has a deep connection to the human experience as it "satisfies the...

In June of 2017, I participated in the Cherokee ceremony known as Going to Water. I stepped in to the cool creek water in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. My feet hurt from the sharp stones in the creek bed. Led by Cherokee traditionalists, I stumbled my way through...

This essay started from a critical reflection on my own experience and through an understanding of my situation as an in-betweener who has been discussing culture and diversity in my teaching and work.1 As Gramsci (1971) notes, I am a historical being...

Within the current North American political climate, polarized opinions on immigration policies and laws have created an atmosphere of fear and distrust, especially for displaced persons. Immigrant populations are regularly subject to hate and violence...

It is important to "explore the notion of 'community' in order to understand in more detail what it means to come into a world populated by others who are not like us" (Biesta, 2006, p. 69).A Community of ArtScapersArtScapers is a project located at...

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)I have been conducting visual culture research in virtual worlds for ten years (Han, 2010, 2013, 2016a, 2016b, 2017) and have found that a unique culture exists, which I call "Third Culture." This Third...

As a former public school art teacher in a rural county in the U.S., I frequently encountered superficial presentations of cultures. I remember one instance walking into a second grade classroom and seeing a Korean doll in the corner during "China week."...

When I looked into the possibility of an arts-based service-learning partnership with a local organization that supports refugee youth at a nearby city high school, coming across the student newspaper headline: "Fear and Miscommunication Keeping ESOL...

Who are we in relationship to other cultures and countries? What issues in art education are potent across the world? How can art educators address issues and teach with a narrative of "being global?" This issue's theme, Borderless: Global Narratives...

The moment I step into the stairwell of my apartment building, I become an other. I am a particularly tall, large, and cisgender woman from the United States of America. I often hear locals refer to me as "meiguó" in Mandarin, meaning United States of...

You wait little girl on an empty stageFor fate to turn the light onYour life little girl is an empty pageThat men will want to write on(Song lyrics, Rogers & Hammerstein, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, 1959)Art education research is often driven by...

"How can we talk about anything else - when it's all anyone is thinking about?"- Anonymous studentThe 2016 American Presidential Election conjures many opinions, debates, beliefs, emotions, and memories for those who experienced it. As a highly publicized...

This issue's mini-theme and resulting articles address implications for art education during a time of political chaos and cultural division in the United States. When we (the editors of this journal) put out the call for this "New Culture Wars" mini-theme...

The November, 2016 US election results, in which the fiscal and socially conservative republican team of Donald Trump and Mike Pence became the president and vice president elect, sent shockwaves and surprise across the country and the world. As artists,...

School-based bullying, which may lead to a number of behavioral and emotional problems (Juvonen, Graham, & Schuster, 2003), is defined as an intentional and repeated form of aggression toward individuals who are unable to defend themselves (Andreou,...

The talking pig-nosed character is, according to Daniel, a self-portrait. This is reinforced by the "rat-tail" of hair visibly sticking out from behind the character's head below the speech balloon on the left, a characteristic hair style shared by both...

Since before the inception of the United States and continuing until today, issues of equity have been an ongoing struggle. The struggle for equity takes many contemporary forms, including the criminal justice system, the school-to-prison (or cradle-to-prison)...

In the call for this special issue of the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, the editors noted that the definition of "culture" has changed over time. Rather than historical definitions of "good taste," broader and more recent definitions...

Acknowledging the current educational climate, the editors and authors in this volume display the varying means through which art integration can serve as a tangible, focused means of art education that both supports creative and committed learning within...

It was the middle of summer; we were in the midst of a major heat wave; and I was sitting at a restaurant across the table from my senior colleague. He hesitantly asked, "Should I even ask how writing is going?""Disillusioned... I am in a state of disillusionment,"...

There are several principal ways of organizing arts-based social action in the helping professions. These professions involve teaching, counseling, social work, and psychology, as well as professions more commonly aligned with health, such as nursing....

Promises and hopes for a better sodety and future often sustain our lives. Howe ve i; false hopes and unrealistic and misconceived expectations survive only temporarily with hype that simply covers and disguises reality like a bubble. Historically the...

In response to the journal theme Media in a Post-Racial Society, I reflected upon my attempts at teaching university students about race and how it operates in contemporary society'. Because of the need for greater cultural understanding among teachers...

I spent the. first six months of 2013 in Finland, and during this time I focused my research on how the Sami people (the Indigenous people of northern Europe) are represented in Finnish public schools and how Sami people want to be represented in Finnish...

In July 2012, a fourteen-minute amateur film called the "Innocence of Muslims" was released on Youtube, depicting Prophet Muhammad as "a womanizer, a homosexual, a child molester and a greedy, bloodthirsty thug" (Kirkpatrick, 2012). This resulted in...

Historic and contemporary media misrepresentations of Native North American people in visual/popular culture-such as Edward Curtis's photographs, Wild West Shows, exhibits in museums, Boy Scout and school enactments, art, literature, toys, cartoons,...

Overt Jim Crow racism is rarely found in public discourse; there has been a decline in overt racist talk (Bonilla-Silva, 2006). This might explain why one of my students challenged me about showing racist Disney movie clips in a college art class. The...

As a middle-aged Black woman artist / educator, racism has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Having grown up in the protective bubble of Washington, DC, aka "Chocolate City," I did not consciously encounter Black-White racism until...

According to the New York Post on December 5, 2015, Mr. Joseph filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court to sue the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) for showing four "racist paintings" by Italian masters - The Crucifixion by Francesco Granacd; The...

"The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different, rather than how we are similar." -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single...

The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education's volume 32 features a group of three articles on the topic of remix and another seven on a range of critical cultural topics in contemporary art and visual culture and its education. The editorial for...

The term remix has been flowing in and out of our awareness for years. A colleague in graduate school used the term to describe his research. Darden used the term with her mother when discussing a partially failed piecrust recipe. Her daughter, laughing...

IntroductionIn this article, we employ a feminist framework to theorize girls' acts of popular media remixing as spaces for productive disruption of the dominant images and discourses about girls and girlhood, and examine our (re)Mixed Media project...

IntroductionIn this paper, I use a DJ-inspired approach to arts-based educational research that borrows from found poetry analysis (Wiggins, 2011) to remix passages from Maxine Greene's (1995) Releasing the Imagination. I developed this methodology in...

Myth and Becoming in the Context of Indian Art Educator IdentityVedanta, a school of Hindu philosophy, is often presented in narrative forms that greatly influence Indian ontology throughout history within and beyond Hinduism. These narratives, including...

IntroductionOur survival on this planet is not only threatened by environmental damage but by a degeneration in the social solidarity and in the modes of psychical life, which must literally be reinvented. The re-foundation of politics will have to pass...

IntroductionIn 1991, members of Bikini Kill, a punk band based in Olympia, Washington, released the zine Bikini Kill #2. In its pages, The Riot Grrrl Manifesto appeared for the first time. Typed across an 5.5 by 8.5 inch page, the manifesto begins, "Riot...

IntroductionHere in Columbus, we are at a crossroads. People still don't know what to make of us. They've gotten used to the fact that Somalis live here, but there is still a misunderstanding that inhibits any kind of progress as far as getting to know...

IntroductionIn introducing their anthology Remembering Others .-Making Invisible Histories of Art Education Visible, Bolin, Blandy and Congdon (2000) wrote,The purpose of this anthology is to introduce art educators, and other professionals concerned...

IntroductionIn this study, the researcher aims to inquire about what it might be like to live on the Apache Reservation from the perspective of a child. I spent a day with the children at the St. Charles Mission School in Arizona and they drew their...

IntroductionThis visual essay focuses on the ways in which a 17-year-old First Nations filmmaker Adam1 engages with complex issues of identity and belonging through his short film. Through a narrative analysis of the film along with the participant's...

Playing with how one's identity is presented online is a relatively recent form of identity performance that has important implications for art education (Garoian & Gaudelius, 2004). As the spatial boundaries of art classrooms expand through the...

Description of the ProjectIn/Visibility of the Abandoned School is a practice-led form of visual inquiry whereby knowledge is generated from a closed school because it is a de-institutionalized, de-commissioned, and empty place that has not yet been...

Spatial relationships are common concerns of art and geography educators yet the interfaces of the two disciplines are rarely explored. The Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC has initiated a program that connects art and geography by emphasizing the role...

The willingness and ability of teachers to reflect on their own practices, dedsion-making, potential biases, and socially responsible actions has been shown to be a positive influence on educators' professional growth (Danielson, 2009). While such reflection...

How should video education be taught in Japan? To answer this question, one must first understand the current state of media literacy in Japan, since both subjects are closely related. Literacy can refer to one's ability to read and write, in addition...

Is the Tower of Babel to be understood as a curse upon humankind or as a wealth of diversity? In art and visual culture education, were we to discuss it, the latter interpretation would prevail, for we have a long and deep engagement with valuing diverse...

IntroductionDuring August of 2010, the Open Hands Initiative along with the Victor Pineda Foundation and Liquid Comics organized a three-day Youth Ability Summit in Damascus, Syria. This cross-cultural event generated collaborations between Syrian and...

Description of the ProjectDigital Storytelling is a process of constructing a story in a digital experiential space (Sanchez, 2009). In this study, digital stories were constructed in the virtual world of Second Life [SL]. Second Life is one of the most...

In this article, based on practitioner research, we describe strategies for extending the traditional place-based model of the field school for the purpose of engaging learners across geographic, disciplinary, cultural, and technological domains. We...

"How Will You Do This?"During my dissertation defense, I passionately declared that I would create multicultural art education experiences in which students questioned power structures, identified personal biases, promoted equity, and learned empathy...

IntroductionFor decades, art educators have advocated for social justice and equality in the classroom, within their communities, and at national and international scholarly assemblies. As a field we have expanded and developed ways to educate through...

IntroductionHow do you feel when you are a new arrival in a foreign country? You might experience feelings of excitement or curiosity but also unfamiliarity or loneliness at the same time. The number of immigrants in the U.S. has increased from 9.6 million...