Polyptych Construction as Arts-Based Historical Methodology: Refiguring the History of Art Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: Making Meaning Through Art: Methodological Approaches to Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

Adopting the lens of ‘new histories’ as the basis for my inquiry into the institutional legacy of the art program at Toronto’s Central Technical School (CTS), I created a methodological framework informed by the traditional art form of the polyptych, in which many panels are joined together to show and tell multi-layered stories connected to a central theme, to demonstrate visually how stories are interrelated, and to present openings to other stories. Polyptychs can express both the form and content of my research in ways that are artful and through a new media tool, Prezi, discovered how the polyptych can become three-dimensional. The resulting series of intertextual expressions create a portrait of complex, expansive stories that are CTS.

Author

• Dustin Ian Garnet, Concordia University