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Becoming Magic: Acquiring The Artist Identity, Kathleen A. Unrath Oct 2021

Becoming Magic: Acquiring The Artist Identity, Kathleen A. Unrath

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

This research mines the internal reflective process of an artist/researcher/teacher who witnesses her own becoming, seeing herself, in multiples and weaves a multimodal narrative while contemplating, revealing, and living multiple identities through visual inquiry. The purpose of this research, in its broadest sense, is to better understand the nature of artistic identity and how it is acquired in personal, social and educational contexts. As an artist/researcher/teacher, I seek to know how we might create more fertile conditions and facilitate appropriate rites of passage for transitioning individuals from student/teacher/aspirant to self-actualized artist.