Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

This research investigates the praxes of Black women multimodal artists–including their perspectives, artistic strategies, and creation of material culture objects–to illuminate the ways their work may inspire teachers and learners across a variety of formal and anomalous settings. A central goal is to recognize the knowledge these artists draw upon and produce. Therefore, this study considers Black women artists’ multimodal production and creative values from an inter-arts perspective that reckons with both socio-political critique and aesthetic sensibilities. Theoretical underpinnings for this research are grounded in interlocking critical discourses involving gender, race, power relations, and education. Using a critical arts-knowledge lens, this arts-based project dialogues with and explores ways to make visible the radical aims, unorthodox practices of belonging (McKittrick, 2021), and artistic strategies of Black women artists, to reflect on and reimagine the world as they see and experience it.