The COVID-19 pandemic, and the emergency pivot to online learning that this health crisis prompted, has inevitably impacted teaching and learning across all study disciplines in higher education. This article presents a case study conducted by tertiary visual arts educators who shifted their social constructivist teaching methods from the…

The historical moment of pandemic isolation is turning into an extended time of distance or hybrid learning, robbing students of regular human interaction. The visual narrative can be of pedagogical significance in reimagining student-teacher connections. Inviting students to visually respond to and record their lived daily experiences can afford…

Artistic and educational possibilities abound when institutions open their doors to local artists and allow them to work within their confines. The following case study articulates how the often unrecorded and unseen discourse between cultural workers leads to a deeper understanding and application of strategies that encourage effective…

New spaces of possibility are opening up in the light of the pandemic, with a shared purpose to offer an alternative, creative approach to learning and researching experimental sites for pedagogical innovation. In our partnership work, our creative methodology, with everyone an artist, drives the ambition for artistic excellence. These new blended…

The author started an artistic gratitude practice in March before the pandemic shut everything down. Every day the author writes something to be grateful for, and randomly selects two art supplies from a mason jar. Then, a postcard-sized artwork is made using those supplies and a gratitude journal as a prompt. While this practice has been deeply…

During the COVID-19 pandemic there were many changes in arts and design alumni's paid work, creative work, income and in the skills that they needed to be successful in their careers. Given the documented impact of the pandemic on the arts and culture sector, on arts and creative workers, and on institutions of higher education, the authors turn…

In this article Jeffrey Broome uses narrative reflection to share the story of relocating his parents, Jim and Pat Broome, in the middle of a pandemic to their new home near him in Florida. Jeffrey Broome combines his own story with lyrics authored by his brother, Rex Broome, and photographs provided by friends. The story begins with a sense of…

As art educators are facing challenges in the social and political dynamics related to COVID-19, the authors as Asian American art educators recognize the urgent need to address and respond to the "racial pandemic" with arts in practice, as well as provide curricula examples for art educators to engage students in addressing these…

COVID-19 has shown a point of vulnerability in the education system and has reminded us how important stories and experiences are, especially from the perspective of marginalized students. A much harsher reality has shaped their lives and experiences, and educators need to rethink their educational practices and theories in the context of the…

Scholars emphasize how exercising the ability to critically evaluate both sides of an issue can reveal false dichotomies and promote an awareness of common ground among differing perspectives (Journell, 2019; Noddings & Brooks, 2017; Zimmerman & Robertson, 2017). As an art education professor in higher education and former elementary art…

Using inquiry as stance and narrative, the author describes, explores, and analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic affected preservice school site observations and shaped her students' burgeoning knowledge of art curriculum, and acknowledges how the pandemic impacted her own pedagogy. The author draws from 18 preservice student observation reflections…

This paper is based on an online experiment, conducted with bachelor students of educational sciences during the COVID-19 lockdown period in the spring of 2020. The experiment, which took place on a daily basis for a whole workweek, consisted of a series of what we have come to call "artistic-scientific interventions". These constituted…

When the pandemic hit in March 2020, the authors were in position to pivot their undergraduate and graduate Print/Paper/Book class to the online environment, having already decided to transition to a hybrid model for summer 2020. The course focus was previously geared toward students developing a practice that could be sustained outside the…

This book presents the creative, arts-based and educative thinking resulting from a "21 day autoethnography challenge" set of self-guided prompts arising from the large-scale collaborative, creative, and global project to explore "Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking during COVID-19 Times." It employs a guiding methodological…

This article considers a pilot research project that examines the successes, failures, and best practice approaches for delivering online performing arts education experiences to young people around Australia. In conversation with 15 teaching artists and 18 youth-based arts organisations nationally, it evaluates the challenges and innovations in…