On Creative Culture: Art Gallery Workshops About Canadian Indigenous Art Education

• In Event: 43.079 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Six - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 43.079-7 - Art History and Gallery Workshops as Pedagogy

Abstract

Case study research was undertaken to address gaps in knowledge regarding K-12 contemporary Canadian Indigenous art. During 2016-2017 seven workshops were held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada on “Contemporary Indigenous Art Education” in order to examine and help develop educators’ pedagogical methods, curricula and insights working with and guided by Indigenous experts in visual art within Manitoba, Canada. Findings regarding struggles to create curricula and teach Indigenous Visual Art in K-12 schools will be discussed through respect, reconciliation, and honoring Indigenous culture and practices in light of shared understandings of history, residential schools, treaties, reconciliation, and contemporary Indigenous visual artists practices.

Author

• Joanna Miriam Black, University of Manitoba