Art Education in Canadian Museums

Anita Sinner is a professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She works with stories as pedagogic pivots and creative geographies in education. Boyd White is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His teaching and research interests are in philosophy and art education, focusing on aesthetics and art criticism. Patricia Osler is a Concordia Public Scholar and doctoral candidate in Art Education with Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Art. Her research focuses on the neuroscience of creativity, art-as-research and museum education.

Land Acknowledgment

Acknowledgement
A Prelude to Art Education in Canadian Museums – Anita Sinner, Boyd White and Patricia Osler

Introduction – Richard Lachapelle



Part 1: Aesthetic Relations  



1. Setting the Objects Free: Experimenting with Alternative Narratives and Unheard Voices at the Aga Khan Museum – Ulrike Al-Khamis

2. Immanence and Being with Contemporary Art – Fiona Blaikie

3. Defining Artful Literacies: Adolescent Affects, Belonging and Cross-sectorial Creativity – Amélie Lemieux and Emma Beaton
4. Artful Moments: A Framework for Engagement and Social Connection – Laurie Kilgour-Walsh, Janis Humphrey and Maureen Montemuro
5. Sensory Learning in Cultural Institutions: Sensory Experience, Aesthetic Sensibility and Intercultural Learning in Garden Settings – David Bell

6. The Poetry of Travelling Concepts: A Movement-Based Pedagogy – Marie-Hélène Lemaire



Part 2: Learning Relations  



7. Unpacking the Canon Within: Using Phenomenological Art Inquiry to Decolonize – Shannon Leddy

8. Starvation Plates: A Fine Art Example of Educational Interpretation Design – Richard Lachapelle
9. Towards Decolonization and Indigenization of Historical Knowledge and Practices at University: A Collaboration between a History Museum and an Undergraduate History Course – Emmy Côté

10. The Pedagogic Potential of Interpretive Spaces in Art Exhibits: Examples from the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery – Agnieszka Chalas and Stephen Lavigne

11. Arts Inclusion: The Joy of Collaborative Community Art Programmes – Dale Sheppard

12. Advancing Inclusion as Social Justice: When Museums Become Spaces of Belonging That Support Diverse Learning Experiences – Darla Fortune

13. Sharing the Museum: Rethinking Cultural Mediation and Museum Education – Anik Meunier and Jason Luckerhoff
14. Connecting to the Museum Experience: The Beauty of Human Complexity in Action – Anne Marie Émond



Part 3: Site Relations  



15. Researching and Reclaiming Edmonton’s Queer History: Que(e)rying Curatorial and Archival Practice Through a Community-Based Public Art Exhibition – Michelle Lavoie and Kristopher Wells
16. What Can a University Gallery Do? – Pauline Sameshima
17. Clay in the Museum: Connecting Through Ceramics – Sequoia Miller, Farrukh Rafiq and Nahed Mansour

18. Augmented Reality and Museum Education: Rethinking Interactive Learning Experiences in Museums – Quincy Qingwen Wang, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Paula MacDowell
19. The Promise of New Museum Models in a Moment of Social Reckoning – Paola Poletto and Devyani Saltzman
20. Visiting the Dalton Trail Gallery: Performing Place-Making, Sharing Locality – Nicole Bauberger



Biographies  

Index