#artsbasedresearch

News: That’s me in excellent company presenting a paper titled Instilling a Practice of Listening, Reflecting and Envisioning: Addressing the Gaps in Through Arts Education in Covid-19 times from my bedroom at the 1st Sub-Saharan Africa Society for Eduction through Arts (SSASEA) - UNESCO Arts Education Virtual Conference, North West University.

https://education.nwu.ac.za/ssasea/meet-our-presenters-inclusivity-equality-wellbeing-and-community

 Planning conference proposals for next year and getting my first three finished. I’m converting papers from last semesters classes with a few changes here and there to get them ready for submission to publications. I have some ideas about how to do this, but it will take some concentrated work this summer.  A National Science Foundation Application may be in my future as well, given some in-depth time and concentration. My love of procrastination and multitasking myself may need to come to an end if I am to accomplish half of these and the exhibition in Rhode Island at the URI Providence campus in July. 

A pedagogical tool, a vehicle for conceptual thought, a space for documentation of learning, an art studio that can travel with you anywhere. Planes-Trains-Automobiles hold no restrictions on this form. For some like myself, it has become its own media like painting, drawing, sculpture, fabric arts, papermaking, collage, installation ceramics, or architecture. This object can act as a space in its unique empty page format to allow for the building of a history between the two artists that work in a collaborative sketchbook for distance education or participatory arts-based research. The unique empty page format allows for the artist or researcher involved in it to build their own architecture within the book rather than have the space constructed by someone else, as a lined sketchbook does either with a grid or the unwritten rules of the blue-lined notebook page. Standards such as don’t write left of the red line, don’t write past the red line that you can see on the backside of the page, don’t write, unless it’s your title, name or page number in the blank space above the page and always write from the left to the (w)ri(te)ght. This researcher doesn’t claim to be the first to have these ideas that buck the traditions of art education and the art world itself, many before me have, and I include a small sampling of those here below. 

Sketchbook Skool is a collection of artists, art-educators, teaching-artists who work within the sketchbook or visual journal and work together to build the scope and stretch of distance education using Youtube as the vehicle for their teaching practice and place of learning.

Sketchbook Skool: What is Sketchbook Skool?

https://youtu.be/-PHoqvyP0Cg

One of the many artists whose work with Sketchbook Skool I am more familiar with is Danny Gregory,

He wrote a book that I have found valuable multiple times for myself many of my students. It includes brief examples of sketchbooks from many artists from around the world, their processes, and thoughts.

https://vimeo.com/5259158