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Defining Artful Literacies: Adolescent Affects, Belonging and Cross-Sectorial Creativity

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Museum education is tightly related to arts-based education, an area typically associated with the intersections of such disciplinary domains as the arts, museum research, digital humanities, and literacy studies. A closer look at these intersections paves the way for emergent research investigating what the concept of the museum does and means for nondominant (BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+) adolescents aged 12-19 enrolled in accessible youth programs who mobilise ‘artful literacies,’ a term we adopt and define in this chapter. To define artful literacies and subsequently interrogate the concept of the museum as a “thing” (Barad, 2007), we look across data from a CLARI-funded project in the Maritimes to propose a dynamic, and emergent re/definition of museum education in which adolescents voice and articulate their perspectives on their sense of belonging in museum spaces. In particular, non-linear data from semi-structured interviews nurtures dynamic meanings of beingwith adolescents' perspectives on museums, which inform the very concept of artful literacies. Finally, in defining artful literacies, this chapter points to significant contributions to conceptualizing the idea of the museum as a rhizomatic space that differs from the traditional, artwork-curated museum.

Keywords: adolescent ; artful literacies ; Barad ; community center ; diffraction ; interviews ; literacy ; posthumanism ; postqualitative ; rhizome

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