ERIC Number: EJ1299350
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 20
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"Artists, We Need You": Artist Identity, Creative Agency, and the Urgency of Action
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, v62 n2 p142-161 2021
In this article, I examine the interplay of artist identity, creative agency, and the urgency of action through research with a teen arts internship at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans. The central research questions for the study focused on investigation of the contexts, narratives, activities, and consequences of artist identity formation. First, I offer a brief literature review of art education for social justice, activism, and creative agency. Then, I describe the use of social practice theory of identity and agency to interpret activist artist identity development within the research. Next, I delineate the use of portraiture as methodology to construct narrative portraits of the young artists of the study. Finally, I present data and analysis of the findings of the study of the contexts, narratives, activities, and consequences of activist artist identity work.
Descriptors: Artists, Personal Autonomy, Creativity, Art Education, Activism, Adolescents, Portraiture, Internship Programs, Arts Centers, Social Justice, Identification (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Louisiana (New Orleans)
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