The focus of this edited book is to evoke and provoke conceptual conversations between early a/r/tographic publications and the contemporary scholarship of a/r/tographers publishing and producing today. Working around four pervasive themes found in a/r/tographic literature, this volume addresses relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials.
In doing so, it advances concepts that have permeated a/r/tographic literature to date. More specifically, the volume simultaneously offers a site where key historical works can easily be found and at the same time, offer new scholarship that is in conversation with these historical ideas as they are discussed, expanded and changed within contemporary contexts. The organizing themes offer conceptual pivots for thinking through how a/r/tography was first conceptualized and how it has evolved and how it might further evolve.
Thus, this edited book affords an opportunity for all those working in and through a/r/tography to offer refined, revised, revisited or new conceptual understandings for contemporary scholarship and practice.
Part of the Artwork Scholarship: International Perspectives in Education series.
Rita L. Irwin (Ed.D.) is distinguished university scholar and professor of art education and curriculum studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She was a classroom teacher and arts specialist before embarking upon an academic career. While her research interests include teacher education, curriculum practices and sociocultural issues, she is best known for her work in expanding how we might imagine and conduct practice-based research methodologies like a/r/tography through collaborative and community-based collectives.
Contact: University of British Columbia, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V7E 2Y3, Canada.
Alexandra Lasczik is professor, arts and education, in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. She is currently research co-leader of the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre. Lexi is an expert educator with 40 years’ experience in the visual arts. She is also a practising artist whose chosen mediums are painting, photography, poetry, walking and creative writing. Travel, movement, migrations and climate change are large themes in Lexi’s work, as are the arts and Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER), particularly A/r/tography.
Contact: Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University, C5.26, Gold Coast Campus, Bilinga 4225, Australia.
Anita Sinner is a Professor of Art Education at The University of British Columbia. Her interests include artwork scholarship, international art education, stories as research, and community art education.
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Professor | Art Education | Faculty of Education
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Traditional Territory
2125 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | Canada V6T 1Z4
anita.sinner@ubc.ca | http://anitasinner.ca | ORCID: 0000-0002-6986-8137
InSEA World Councillor 2022-23 (North America) | http://www.insea.org
Series Co-Editor, Artwork Scholarship: International Perspective in Education | https://www.intellectbooks.com/artwork-scholarship-international-perspectives-in-education
