A Call to Action: Educational Possibilities for Art Education Through Transmediation

• In Event: Artful Reflections: Reimagining the Teacher as Learner Through Creative Practice

Abstract

In 2004, a Fulbright teacher exchange to Denver, Colorado, transformed my approach to art education, integrating artist thinking, arts-based research and materiality across multi and diverse disciplinary ways of knowing. As the ‘art teacher with the trolley’ I navigated classrooms, co-teaching with teachers across disciplines and employing possibility thinking to foster interdisciplinary creative learning through art. This experience revealed the power of art integration and transmediation to bridge cultural gaps and generate new ways of doing, being and knowing. Returning to Australia, I applied this perspective to address systemic inequities and embraced anti-racist, anti-colonial practices in art education. This paper reflects on two decades of arts integration methods in art education examining its impact in shaping transformative art education.

Author

• Kathryn S. Coleman, University of Melbourne