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Engaging in Arts and Making as Acts of Transformative Identity Building
Sat, April 11, 7:45 to 9:15am PDT (7:45 to 9:15am PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3Session Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
This session brings together learning sciences research exploring how people develop identities in relation to the arts, creatively engaging with others toward transformative futures. We look across four projects that center art and making as identity work, particularly for people navigating historic oppression, to better understand the ways these creative acts can provide pathways of resistance, reimagination, and transformation. We follow the conference theme, “unforgetting histories and imagining futures,” to collaboratively frame identity building as an artistic process, rather than solely a scientific one. Each paper in this session reimagines how young people and their elders inscribe themselves into the world and see every act of identification as a potential artistic act of imagination and creation toward more transformative futures.
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Artmaking as Assertion: Youth Artmaking as Cultural Learning Pathways Toward New Identities - Kristina M. Stamatis, University of Nebraska Omaha; Joseph L. Polman, University of Colorado - Boulder; Marisa Mendoza-Maurer, University of Colorado - Boulder; Tania Hogan, University of Colorado - Boulder
Joyful Immigrant Family Storytelling During Politically Perilous Times - Antero Garcia, Stanford University; Alix Dick, La Cuenta
Educator Learning and Mutual Becoming in a STEAM and Storytelling Program - Teyona James-Harris, Northwestern University; Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Lulu Madise, McGaw YMCA
“We Are All Becoming”: Exploring the Design of Improvisational Activity within Researcher-Artist Collaborations - Ananda M. Marin, University of California - Los Angeles; Trinity Collins, University of California - Los Angeles; Shivani Dave, University of California - Los Angeles; Lindsay Lindberg, University of California - Los Angeles