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Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art

Alice Wexler

Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment. Including twenty-seven diverse case studies of socially engaged art practice with groups like the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community, and Rikers Island, this book guides art educators toward innovative, transdisciplinary, and diverse methodologies. A valuable resource on creating spaces for change, it addresses the relationships between artists and educators, museums and communities.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Apr 10th, 2019
  • Pages: 244
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.00in - 7.00in - 0.63in - 1.52lb
  • EAN: 9780815396802
  • Categories: Study & TeachingGeneral

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About the Author

Alice Wexler is Professor Emerita, SUNY New Paltz. She has previously published Autism in a Decentered World in the Routledge Advances in Disability Studies series.

Vida Sabbaghi is the founder and director of COPE NYC, whose mission is to provide innovative approaches to community engagement through art programs, accessible museum programs, conferences, exhibits, and artists in residence such as those in Soulangh Cultural Village, Taiwan and Brooklyn, New York.

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Praise for this book

"This anthology is a genuine collaboration that invites the reader to join in and consider how personal actions can bridge communities through socially engaged art and provoke inspiration for building new possibilities together."

-- Studies in Art Education

"The strength of the collection is the concrete descriptions of project methods, contexts and circumstances. Many chapters illuminate the critical and theoretical perspectives informing the works and projects, and all in all there is much food for thought and discussion in environments where art education, participatory art and socially engaged art are practiced and tried out."

--Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal