Silenced but Not Defeated: Finding Hope through Art in Education

• In Event: A.R.T. Official Intelligence: Critical Noise, Creative Tension, and How We Get Free

Abstract

In the current moment, education is politicized, polarized, and increasingly silenced. Books are banned, stories erased, and speech censored, yet images and art continue to carry truths that cannot be contained. This session positions art as a strategic site of instruction and curriculum that fosters resistance, resilience, and hope. Through art, we empower ourselves and one another, building possibilities for justice. As educators, researchers, and lifelong learners, we must center our soul and humanity. This panel brings together voices that embody the artist, the educator, the researcher, and the excavator of hope within us all. Participants will be invited into a brave space that affirms art as resistance, curriculum, and collective practice. We aim to leave with a shared reminder: in this political landscape, art is not only expression, it is survival.

Author

• Arturo Anaya Servin, University of San Diego