Archiving Art as a Legacy to Preserve Pasts/Futures

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel invites artist-scholar-educators to explore, through their own artistic practices,
art’s utility as a methodological, theoretical, and practical disruption to harm carried out in
educational spaces shaped by whiteness, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and settler colonialism. We
contend that the arts are born of and carry forward ancestral knowledges and ways of knowing.
They reform and hybridize in response to the contexts from which they arise. For historically
marginalized people, art has been a means of survival, jubilation, teaching, and mapping towards
freedom. Thus, we conceptualize and explore art educational futuring, understanding art as a
matter of form and communication, and, moreover, as a socio-political tool that reflects the
histories, presents, and futures of dynamically diverse communities, including their onto-
epistemologies.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Darnel Degand, University of California - Davis

• Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut

Papers

• Holding Space, Making Sound: Sanctuary, Memory, and the Pedagogy of Care - Stevie D. Johnson, The Ohio State University

• Movement as a Site of Knowing Futurity - Cierra Kaler-Jones, Rethinking Schools

• “Witness”: Coalitionally Bearing Witness to Envision Educational Futurities - Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College

• Growing Up Bronx - Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• The Mighty Struggle: A Town Called Miracle - John Jennings, University of California - Riverside

Discussant

• James Haywood Rolling, Syracuse University