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Black Hair as Metaphor Explored through Duoethnography and Arts-Based Research (open access)

Black Hair as Metaphor Explored through Duoethnography and Arts-Based Research

This article presents a duoethnographic, critical arts-based research project, which began as a pre-recorded, on-demand presentation for the 2021 National Art Education Association Annual Convention. This is an edited, expanded print version of the authors' conference session examining hair as text and sites of identity/respectability politics, positionality, rites of passage, liminality, and selfhood.
Date: 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J. & Gilbert, Lynnette M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art Education: K-12/Higher Education captions transcript

Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art Education: K-12/Higher Education

Video recording featuring co-hosts Lauren Cross, Ph.D., and Kathy Brown, Ph.D., engage in ongoing conversations about anti-racist pedagogy in the arts and design. Joined by distinguished guest panelists, Joni Boyd Acuff, Ph.D., and James Haywood Rolling Jr., Ed.D., this first installment of the 2044 series introduces Afrofuturism and the ways that it can help reimagine art discourses, laying the groundwork for establishing Afrofuturism as a framework for conceptualizing and enacting anti-racist art education practice. In addition to sharing their work and how it relates to Afrofuturism and futurist thinking, the panelists discuss how recognizing Black and Brown artists and advocating for racial literacy is essential to creating and maintaining a racial consciousness practice in K-12 education.
Date: February 12, 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Acuff, Joni Boyd & Rolling, James Haywood, Jr.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-racist Praxis at Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy captions transcript

Anti-racist Praxis at Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy

Video recording featuring esteemed guest panelists, Tameka Ellington, Ph.D., Cheryl D. Holmes Miller, and Terresa Moses, M.F.A., this second installment of the 2044 series highlights the ways that working against anti-Blackness through the lens of Afrofuturism and Critical Race Theory allows for the examination and enactment of decolonizing design bias and white default. This session brings questions of Black agency, stereotyping, bias, representation, appropriation, commodification, and the dangers of pathologizing Blackness in design. Panelists discuss anti-racist practice in design education through forms of resistance and resilience.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Ellington, Tameka; Miller, Cheryl D. Holmes & Moses, Terresa
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Museums captions transcript

Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Museums

Video recording featuring guest panelists, Stephanie A. Johnson-Cunningham, and Kelli Morgan, Ph.D., this third installment of the 2044 series frames Afrofuturism and futurist thinking in museum practice to examine the roles museums play in maintaining and recreating anti-blackness and white supremacy. Panelists discuss how museum educators and curators can practice anti-racist pedagogy and thinking. Racist and colonial practices of museums need greater racial equity and recognition. Through the use of visual imagery, Afrofuturism as a framework may be a viable strategy for community building, imagination, and expression. Recognizing that museums are rooted in white colonial narratives that have been and continue to be oppressive to Black and people of color, museums can amplify Black experiences and narratives while pointing out the need for systemic change in the sector. From the periphery of colonial violence and commodification to the centrality of visibility and recognition, museum education can provide opportunities to “analyze how racism shapes how we view, discuss, create, and engage multiple audiences within the museums.”
Date: April 9, 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Johnson-Cunningham, Stephanie A. & Morgan, Kelli
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual Narratives: Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Design captions transcript

Visual Narratives: Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Design

Video recording featuring guest panelists, Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D., Omari Souza, and Wesley Taylor, this fourth installment of the 2044 series frames Afrofuturism and futurist thinking as a means for exploring the practices of design and museum curation as well as implications for art/design pedagogy. The panelists explore and discuss how hegemony is perpetuated, sharing the ways in which they decolonize within their curricula and pedagogy, as well as practice anti-racism in their work to reimagine risk or resist classification. While design institutions perpetuate neoliberalist ideals and language and teach under the paradigm of design for consumption, art/design education has the capacity to make a great impact by embracing the power of art and design to imagine alternative futures. The speakers also discuss important issues of cultural ethics, including copyright and appropriation, protections, and speaking up for community.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Cooks, Bridget R.; Souza, Omari & Taylor, Wesley
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gullah Geechee Visuality as Protest Art, Contemplative Practice, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy (open access)

Gullah Geechee Visuality as Protest Art, Contemplative Practice, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy

This article centers two fabric assemblage pieces the author created in response to the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer 2020.
Date: April 19, 2022
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library