Dr. Amelia Kraehe
Dr. Amelia Kraehe, associate professor in art and visual culture education at the University of Arizona will present a visiting artist/scholar lecture, Tuesday, February 2 titled, “Creative Abolitionist Teaching: Anti-Racism Theory and Practice in the Art Classroom” free, and open to the public via Zoom from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Kraehe is co-founder and co-director of the Racial Justice Studio, a transdisciplinary incubator for the study and practice of intersectional anti-racism in and through the arts. She served as the Senior Editor of Art Education and is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education (2018).
Her scholarship, teaching, and public engagement focus on how the arts and arts education can challenge, but also reinforce, systems of inequality. She explores this seeming contradiction by investigating the ways in which the arts, as both a disciplinary discourse and as creative cultural practices, mediate social movements, ideological formation and transformation, identity and agency.
In 2019, she received the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education Association for her article, “Arts Equity: A Praxis-oriented Tale.”
In 2020, Dr. Kraehe was honored with the Mac Arthur Goodwin Award for Distinguished Service in the Profession. Her latest book, Race and Art Education (2021), is available from Davis Publication.
