Art Education Beyond the Classroom Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning

by Wexler, Alice

• ISBN13: 9780230114302
• ISBN10: 023011430X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The subjects of this book belong to a population that is marginalized and isolated. They are children and adults with disabilities--artists who make art in special classrooms, prisons, rural back roads, backwaters, and institutions. By focusing on this population, editor and key author Alice Wexler provides a common thread that unites traditionally separate fields of art criticism, art education, and art therapy. With firsthand experience in the field, each contributor to this volume offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between usand them,encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education.

Author Biography

Alice Wexler is director of the Art Education Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Messages of Linda Persson	p. 1
Working with the Young Outsider Artist: Appropriation, Elaboration, and Building Self-Narrative	p. 7
How Do You Get to Prospect Avenue?	p. 31
Young and Disabled in Harlem: Making Art Like It Matters	p. 47
The Art of Living and Dying: Linda Montano	p. 71
Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary	p. 93
Following the Siren's Song: Scott Harrison and the Carousel of Happiness	p. 117
Digital Ethnography: Artists Speak from Virtual Ability Island in Second Life	p. 135
Outside the Outside: In the Realms of the Real (Hogancamp, Johnston, and Darger)	p. 159
Author Biographies	p. 187
Index	p. 191
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