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Constructing Educational Possibilities: What Disability Art and Art Education Offer in Teaching Disabled Youth

Sun, April 14, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 8

Session Type: Symposium

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In this symposium, we ponder the historical construction of race through discourses of disability (Tyler, 2021) and draw on the intersectional arts activism foundational to disability justice (Kefai, 2021; Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018; Sins Invalid, 2019) to posit art education as a site ripe for freedom-dreaming (Kelley, 2022, 2002) and for “look[ing] back, but [imagining] forward… dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities” (AERA, 2023). This session follows scholar-activists (e.g. Bailey & Mobley, 2019; Berne, 2015; Kim, 2017; Lester & Nusbaum, 2021; Schalk, 2022; Schalk & Kim, 2020) in explicitly centering bodyminds multiply-marginalized by race and disability, looking to the Disability Art movement—and the artistry at the core of disability justice—as models for imagining a radically different reality.

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