This edited collection offers global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education.
Invoking transversality as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors community professionals, scholars, artists, educators and activists from sixteen countries offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities of community arts education at all levels.
Such complexities include challenges created by globalizing phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic; ongoing efforts to achieve justice for Indigenous peoples; continuing movement of immigrants and refugees; growing recognition of issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace; and the increasing impact of grassroot movements and organizations.
Chapters are grouped into four thematic clusters Connections, Practices, Spaces and Relations that map these and other intersecting assemblages of transversality. Thinking transversally about community art education not only shifts our understanding of knowledge from a passive construct to an active component of social life but redefines art education as a distinctive practice emerging from the complex relationships that form community.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ching-Chiu Lin
PART 1: Transversal
Connections
Chapter 1: Twenty-First Century Winter Journey: Exploring Comics, Adaptation
and Community Art Education
Julian Lawrence
Chapter 2: The University as an Institute of Permanent Creation: Developing
a Gift for Living in Neoliberal Times
Raphael Vella
Chapter 3: Seeing What Unfolds: New Ways of Exploring Community Art Education
in Formal Learning Spaces
Kathryn Coleman and Marnee Watkins
Chapter 4: Making University: The Role of Corporeality, Matter and Physical
Spaces to Create a Sense of Community
Sara Carrasco
Segovia
Chapter 5: I Wish You a Good Life: Embedding Intergenerational Learning Into
Pre-Service Education Through Art, Community and Environment
Geraldine
Burke
Chapter 6: Community-Based Art Education: Promoting Revitalization and
Eco-Cultural Resilience for Cultural Sustainability
Timo Jokela and Mirja
Hiltunen
Part 2: Transversal
Practices
Chapter 7: Making Meaning, Creating (in) Community: An International Dialogue
on Community Art Education Within Early Childhood Contexts
Geralyn (Gigi) Yu, Alex Halligey and Judith
Browne
Chapter 8: Identifying Images as a Strategy for Emotional Interaction with
the Environment: Neighbourhoods as Engraving Support
Jessica Castillo
Inostroza
Chapter 9: We Are Small, but We Have Loud Voices: Children Leading the Way to
Support Community Connections Through Art
Sue
Girak
Chapter 10: Infernal Learning: Becoming Members of Academic Communities
Anniina Suominen, Tiina Pusa, Minna Suoniemi, Eljas Suvanto and Elina
Julin
Chapter 11: Seeds in the Wind! A/r/tography School and Teacher Formation
Leisa Sasso and Mirian Celeste
Martins
Chapter 12: Transversalities Through Transdisciplinary Pedagogies: A South
African Perspective on Community Engaged Art Education
Merna
Meyer
Chapter 13: Building Bridges in the Community Through Opening Minds Through
Art: An Intergenerational Abstract Art Programme for People Living with
Dementia
Stephanie H. Danker, Elizabeth Lokon and Casey
Pax
Part 3: Transversal
Spaces
Chapter 14: International Art Symposia as a Space of Knowledge Creation and
Creative Engagement
Maria Huhmarniemi and Katja
Juhola
Chapter 15: Collaborative Thinking, Creating and Learning on a Remote Greek
Island: Towards Sustainable Community Art Education
Sophia Chaitas and Georgia
Liarakou
Chapter 16: Finding Possibility in the Liminality of Socially Engaged Arts:
Fostering Learning and Wellbeing with Refugee Youth
Kate
Collins
Chapter 17: Conversations with Gardens: Artful Spaces in Community Art
Education
Trish
Osler
Chapter 18: Community Dance as an Approach to Reimagine Place in Aotearoa/New
Zealand
Pauline Hiroti and Rose
Martin
Chapter 19: Pedagogical Implications in La Austral, S.V. de C.V.: A
Collective Performative-Storytelling Project by Artist Pablo Helguera and
DREAMers
Eunji
Lee
Chapter 20: Community Arts Education: Experiencing and Creating Our World
Shelley Hannigan and Merinda
Kelly
Part 4: Transversal
Relations
Chapter 21: Colors of Connection: Public Art Making as an Activating Force
for Community Art Education
Lynn Sanders-Bustle, Christina Mallie and Laurie
Reyman
Chapter 22: Residing in Pedagogical Spaces Through Community Cultural
Production
Jing
Li
Chapter 23: Intercultural Eye for Art: Becoming a Member of a Global
Community Through Arts-Based Exchange
Kazuyo Nakamura, Hye-Seung (Theresa) Kang, Wataru Inoue, Leah H. Morgan,
Hisae Aoyama, Hannah Shuler, Atsuo Nakashima, Cheryl J. Maxwell, Takunori
Okamoto and Mari
Sankyo
Chapter 24: The Creation of a Community Teaching Artist Certificate
Programme: Professionalization in the Gig Economy
Dustin
Garnet
Chapter 25: Creative for Life: Planning and Delivering Intergenerational Art
Programmes
Jodie Davidson and Miles
Openshaw
Chapter 26: Croatian Naïve Art as an Incentive for Multimodal Research with
Children
Helena Buric and Nikolina Fiser
Sedinic
Chapter 27: Visual Ecologies: Artistic Research Transversing Stable, Dynamic
and Interstitial Relations in an Australian Settler Colonial Context
Kim
Snepvangers
Notes on Contributors
Ching-Chiu Lin is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests lie in community art education, digital media and learning through art, and art teacher education.
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.
Rita L. Irwin is a distinguished university scholar and professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. As a scholar she is best known for her work in a/r/tography, teacher education, curriculum studies and sociocultural concerns.
