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2005

Un(becoming) Aesthetics

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Images: Unbecoming War: Becoming Witness And Scribe, Deborah Smith-Shank Jan 2005

Images: Unbecoming War: Becoming Witness And Scribe, Deborah Smith-Shank

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

My artwork, called Wargoddess: Shock&Awe, positions me as a Witness and a Scribe. I cut pictures of my family into small pieces and pasted these people I love without reservation around the goddess. I wrote and pasted words. I pasted the map of Iraq on her stomach and made Baghdad her belly button. As I worked, I wondered whose side god[dess] is on and why anyone could possibly think that s/he took sides.


Abu Ghraib: (Un)Becoming Photographs: How Can Art Educators Address Current Images From Visual Culture Perspectives?, Nancy Pauly Jan 2005

Abu Ghraib: (Un)Becoming Photographs: How Can Art Educators Address Current Images From Visual Culture Perspectives?, Nancy Pauly

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

On Friday, May 7, 2004 the front page of The New York Times contained two photographs and a headline: "From Picture of Pride to Symbol of Abuse" (Dao, 2004, p.1). In the top photograph Lynndie R. England appears in 2003, smiling, standing in a relaxed family setting, and wearing a blue" Authentic USA" hooded sweatshirt with red and white lettering. Until early May that photo had been displayed in the Mineral County West Virginia Courthouse with other photographs of local soldiers stationed in Iraq.


Community Pedagogy In Idaho, Kathleen Keys Jan 2005

Community Pedagogy In Idaho, Kathleen Keys

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

The following pages chronicle a diverse collage of recent un(becoming) and becoming events from arts policy realms, as well as issues, events and programming in the Idaho arts community. Throughout the narration and description, critical analyses of these actual events, and the articulated and sometimes hidden pedagogies of these situations are measured against the criteria of community pedagogy. Rather than examining un(becoming)/becoming as a simple binary, the complexity of evaluating these events as either or both is presented when appropriate. Strong motivation to recognize social change and justice efforts through exercised community pedagogy nonetheless leads the evaluation and analysiS. Local …