“Working on Our Expressions”: Critical Arts-Based Autoethnographic Reflections on Liberating Creativity Through Arts Integration Teaching Residencies

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Abstract

This paper provides a working exploration of a teaching artist’s and facilitator’s reflections on liberating creativity through arts integrations residencies. We use the phrase, “Working on our expressions” to acknowledge the undoing of creative stifling that often occurs via teacher preparation, practice, and development and to acknowledge that the teaching artist and facilitator, while committed to arts integration, had to confront spaces of creative stifling in professional spaces. We also analyze the impact of legislation and note how teaching artists and teachers act as resistors through arts integrated practices.

Authors

• Qiana Cutts Givens, Mississippi State University

• Travis R. Gratteau-Zinnel, Iowa State University