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Black Hair as Metaphor Explored through Duoethnography and Arts-Based Research

Description: This article presents a duoethnographic, critical arts-based research project, which began as a pre-recorded, on-demand presentation for the 2021 National Art Education Association Annual Convention. This is an edited, expanded print version of the authors' conference session examining hair as text and sites of identity/respectability politics, positionality, rites of passage, liminality, and selfhood.
Date: 2021
Creator: Brown, Kathy J. & Gilbert, Lynnette M.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Visual Narratives: Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Design

Description: Video recording featuring guest panelists, Bridget R. Cooks, Ph.D., Omari Souza, and Wesley Taylor, this fourth installment of the 2044 series frames Afrofuturism and futurist thinking as a means for exploring the practices of design and museum curation as well as implications for art/design pedagogy. The panelists explore and discuss how hegemony is perpetuated, sharing the ways in which they decolonize within their curricula and pedagogy, as well as practice anti-racism in their work to reima… more
Date: October 1, 2021
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 03 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Cooks, Bridget R.; Souza, Omari & Taylor, Wesley
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art and Museums

Description: Video recording featuring guest panelists, Stephanie A. Johnson-Cunningham, and Kelli Morgan, Ph.D., this third installment of the 2044 series frames Afrofuturism and futurist thinking in museum practice to examine the roles museums play in maintaining and recreating anti-blackness and white supremacy. Panelists discuss how museum educators and curators can practice anti-racist pedagogy and thinking. Racist and colonial practices of museums need greater racial equity and recognition. Through … more
Date: April 9, 2021
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Johnson-Cunningham, Stephanie A. & Morgan, Kelli
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Anti-racist Pedagogy in Art Education: K-12/Higher Education

Description: Video recording featuring co-hosts Lauren Cross, Ph.D., and Kathy Brown, Ph.D., engage in ongoing conversations about anti-racist pedagogy in the arts and design. Joined by distinguished guest panelists, Joni Boyd Acuff, Ph.D., and James Haywood Rolling Jr., Ed.D., this first installment of the 2044 series introduces Afrofuturism and the ways that it can help reimagine art discourses, laying the groundwork for establishing Afrofuturism as a framework for conceptualizing and enacting anti-racist… more
Date: February 12, 2021
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Acuff, Joni Boyd & Rolling, James Haywood, Jr.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Anti-racist Praxis at Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy

Description: Video recording featuring esteemed guest panelists, Tameka Ellington, Ph.D., Cheryl D. Holmes Miller, and Terresa Moses, M.F.A., this second installment of the 2044 series highlights the ways that working against anti-Blackness through the lens of Afrofuturism and Critical Race Theory allows for the examination and enactment of decolonizing design bias and white default. This session brings questions of Black agency, stereotyping, bias, representation, appropriation, commodification, and the d… more
Date: March 12, 2021
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Brown, Kathy J.; Cross, Lauren E.; Ellington, Tameka; Miller, Cheryl D. Holmes & Moses, Terresa
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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