MAKING ART HISTORIES:
A LIVING PEDAGOGY
Photo: Guided visit of the Daphne Boyer exhibition, “fa…que” at MAI, Montréal, Québec, 2022
For several years, Dawson Fine Arts faculty members Dr. Emma Doubt and Dr. Pohanna Pyne Feinberg have been having discussions about shifting pedagogical and curricular approaches in the art history discipline.
Photo: documentation from creation workshop offere by Lori Beavis, director of Daphne, Indigenous artist-run centre
“These shifts in the discipline resonate with a global paradigm shift and social justice movements that call for decolonizing education (amongst other systematic social and political structures) by offering content in our classrooms that resonates with and inspires all of our students — and, in the process, also creates open, safe spaces where we can discuss reconciliation and healing in Canada through an artistic lens,” Emma and Pohanna said. …
“The name of the project, Making Art Histories, is a recognition that historical narratives are constructed and, therefore, they can also be reshaped and re-storied. The concept of “re-storying” is profound for us, and we are grateful for the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer, which has helped us to understand the concept’s importance within our own educational context,” Emma and Pohanna explained.
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