Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art Craft and Visual Culture Education

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>