The latest installment of the “Hard Lessons” series looks at teaching through a trauma-aware lens
Category: Pedagogies
Art History Beyond Objects
The last in a series on post-pandemic pedagogy.
Teaching the Practices of Art History in the Age of Abundance
The second in a series on post-pandemic pedagogy
Confronting the Discipline’s Past and Imagining Alternate Futures: Realizing Future-Facing Art Histories through a Graduate-Level Methods Seminar
The first in a series on post-pandemic pedagogy
Toward a Reparative Pedagogy: Art as Trigger, Art as Repair
Hard Lessons on Trauma, Teaching, and Art History
A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History
Recent texts in trans studies
Holding Space: A Roundtable Conversation on Trauma and Teaching in the Museum
Four museum educators on creating safe spaces for communities
A Conversation with Mays Imad: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Art History Classroom
The neuroscience of teaching in a time of crisis
More Than 100 Stories: Sharing Learning through Creative Evaluation
What happens when an arts bureaucracy steps away from “data-driven” evaluation of its program? Writer Sarah Butler recounts her collaboration with visual artist Nicole Mollett on a unique commission from Arts Council England
Social Histories: An Inquiry from the Integrated Arts Research Initiative
Joey Orr and Imani Wadud present their reflections on ongoing transdisciplinary programming, exhibition work, learning, and social action through the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Creating Good-Enough Containers: Reflections on Queerness in Community-Based Museum Education
Artist and museum educator Kerry Downey reflects on making space for queerness within and outside of institutions through participatory art making
Making & Being
The collective BFAMFAPhD presents the Making and Being Card Game, a pedagogical tool created for Art Journal Open that encourages students to approach their projects holistically, looking at their own learning goals and the life and death of their projects in relation to their social and emotional needs