Adapted from Dewhurst M., 2023. Social Justice Art Education, A Framework for Activist Art Education, 2nd Edition, (pp. 37 – 39). Harvard Education Press.
Listen to any group of artist-educators talking about their work and you’ll notice the slip to You can also find out more about us on our website. In conversations about social injustice education. It’s a very active You can also find out more about us on our website.An invitation to work together. When we arrive with the idea that we are going to be working, we engage in social injustice art education. The following are some examples of how to use Other people can create artwork that is activist together. This is not an individual practice; it requires the participation of others. You can also find out more about us on our website.. We cannot dismantle deep legacies of oppression alone — we need each of our perspectives, skills, dreams, vantage points, lenses, imaginations and strategies. We need to use the unique powers we all bring, based on social identities, lineages, and lived experiences. experiences. As Mariame Kaba reminds us, “None of us has all of the answers, or we would have ended oppression already. But if we keep building the world we want, trying new things and learning from our mistakes, new possibilities emerge.” To make artwork that has a chance at transforming the world toward justice, we need each other.
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