Visual Arts Research:: Special Issue CFP::
Guest Editor:: Courtnie N. Wolfgang
varqueeringarted@gmail.com
queering art education:
counternarratives to “controversy”
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2019
Publication: Summer 2020
Queer — as in theory— refers to texts and artifacts as being queer subject matter as well as the reading of those texts and artifacts. It is both an adjective and a verb. Wilchins (2004) suggests queering as presenting countertruths as truth (and vice versa).
Halberstam (2011) offers failure as a queer art. Kafer (2013) asks one to consider queering the intersections of feminist theory and disability studies.
By introducing a queer theoretical framework, queer acts of reframing ask us to interrogate assumptions around student meaning-making and identity development. They also allow us to consider multiple and intersecting identities and entwined oppressions (Smallwood, 2015).
Queer scholarship in the arts and art education need not be limited to representation of queer artists in our curricula. Rather, we might consider representation and a critical rethinking of traditional arts curricula and pedagogy toward more uncanny, untypical, unexpected, unaccountable, unfamiliar, and extraordinary experiences with art: a queer art education.
Building on scholarship of queer theorists, disability studies, critical race theory, indigenous studies, and radical pedagogy, this special issue of VAR invites submissions of manuscripts, visual essays, works of art, and testimonials of artists, art educators, museum educators, and students who are in pursuit of a queer art education.
We ask contributors to consider a queer art of publication, recognizing some of the most delightful queer scholarship is popular scholarship. We welcome un-grounded submissions of experimental writing and new voices from the field as well as familiar ones.
Possible questions for exploration:
- What does a pedagogy of art through intentional counternarrative/countermapping look like?
- How might the field of art education resist the notion of the queer body as “controversial”?
- What is the history of a queer art education?
- What is the future of a queer art education?
- How has the mainstreaming of the white/cis/queer body in the arts and visual culture eclipsed/limited the visibility of Queer/Trans Persons of Color (QTPOC) and what might be the responsibility of art education in mitigating the lack of representation?
- What do queer disability studies in art education look like?
Submissions should take one of two formats: either 1) a short manuscript of 1,500 words with visual art, video, multimedia submission or 2) a 4,500 word manuscript including references in APA format, 6th edition.
Authors should send two documents: 1) a title page; and 2) the manuscript. Short format manuscripts should be accompanied by appropriate files for the visual/multimedia work (jpeg, .mov, etc). Please do not embed visuals/media in the manuscript and make additional files as universal as possible. All submissions will be subjected to a masked review which requires author names and citations be removed from the manuscript and digital submissions. Include the names and contact information for all authors on the separate title page document. Please send title page and manuscript Courtnie N. Wolfgang at varqueeringarted@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2019. Authors will be informed of acceptance/non-acceptance via email by August 31, 2019. Please email questions regarding your submissions to Courtnie N. Wolfgang at varqueeringarted@gmail.com.