Two members of our Art Education community, faculty member Laura Reeder and alumna Kate Jellinghaus,  have articles in the current issue of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE). This journal  serves as an alternative voice for the field of art education through the promotion of scholarly research that addresses social issues, action, and transformation as well as creative methods of research and writing. The JSTAE is the official journal of the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education which is an Issues Group of the National Art Education Association.

Laura Reeder, our new full-time faculty member who begins at MassArt in September, confronts “either/or” professional identities in arts education in “Hyphenated Artists: A Body of Potential”:

“Multi-faceted artist/scholar/educator/learner/advocate personas are “unfenced” in order to navigate spaces of artistic, educational, and cultural productions without having to pause for identification at borders.  In this form, pedagogies for inventive social change emerge.”  [from the abstract] Continue reading →