“Using My Own Face as a Frame”: Visions of Racial Justice in the Freedom Dreaming Artwork Created by K–12 Students and Teachers (Poster 47)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 10:50 am
  In Poster Session: Dreamscapes of Liberation Through Arts-Based Methods

Abstract

In conversation with the abolitionist scholarship of Love (2019) and concepts of freedom dreaming within the work of Kelley (2002), this paper explores the artwork that emerged when a diverse collective of educators and students engaged with local luminaries, artists, and community activists in a year-long inquiry into the power of writing and the arts to inspire change within and beyond schools. Drawing on critical visual methodologies (Rose, 2016), we analyze a selection of artwork produced in the project that started with the self to address racial injustices and that envisioned an educational system characterized by freedom, possibility, and racial justice. This paper explores the affordances of arts-based research methodologies to promote educational justice.

Authors

• Kelly K. Wissman, University at Albany - SUNY

• Hanum Tyagita, University at Albany - SUNY

• Vanessia Gooden Wilkins, University at Albany - SUNY