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Visual Inquiry - Volume 8, Issue 2, 2019
Volume 8, Issue 2, 2019
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Brought on the Feels: A roundtable debrief of the public art project, We They
We They was a public art project created by staff and young people from queer youth services organization Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI)
1 in collaboration with a faculty member, alumnus, undergraduate and graduate students from New York University (NYU)2 . HMI and NYU are two different kinds of learning institutions located a mere block apart in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood. In the following roundtable discussion, project collaborators discuss their experiences working on the project and how the resulting artwork impacted them. Their discussion addresses themes such as transformative pedagogy, photographic portraiture; young queer people of colour, activating urban space and trust.
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Cute babies: How imagery and representation shape our collective beliefs
By Chris KienkeImages about race, class and gender deeply affect our beliefs about what American values are and who gets to share and who does not get to share in those values. The continuing discussions about these issues filtered through social media, film and television in the United States is a dialogue that demands visual rendering. Realizing the depth of this conditioning is the first step. Critical next steps are examining which images are made available to the public and how to work with students who are developing their own voice.
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Locating visual arts education in a post-liberal arts landscape
By Jason SwiftThis article explores the current climate and location of visual arts at post-secondary institutions in a growing post-liberal arts climate in the United States. It discusses the future of visual and liberal arts education in a socio-political climate that appears to value career-ready degrees and profit over scholarship and the cerebral, emotive and visceral importance of education and the arts. The history of conservative efforts to remake post-secondary education and government efforts to defund it are discussed, providing context for the shift to a post-liberal arts landscape. A growing divide and class separation are investigated as an outcome of the efforts made to de-liberalize colleges and universities and defund educational assistance programmes, potentially placing it in the hands of the upper class and out of the hands of the middle and lower classes.
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