[Re]conceiving art pedagogy: Delivering creative community through reciprocal mentoring

Reyes, Shannalia

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Description

Title

[Re]conceiving art pedagogy: Delivering creative community through reciprocal mentoring

Author(s)

Reyes, Shannalia

Issue Date

2023-07-09

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Travis, Sarah

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Travis, Sarah

Committee Member(s)

• Hetrick, Laura
• Lucero, Jorge
• O’Reilly, Andrea

Department of Study

Art & Design

Discipline

Art Education

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

reciprocal mentoring, matricentric feminism, storying stories

Abstract

This study investigates how The Women’s Art World (WAW) mother artist group transforms artistic practice through reciprocal mentoring, a practice informed by engaged pedagogy (hooks, 1994) and co-mentoring (McGuire & Reger, 2003). Using narrative inquiry methodology (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Ford, 2021; Kim, 2016; McClish-Boyd & Bhattacharya, 2021; McCormack, 2004; Polkinghorne, 1988; Riessman, 1993) with the collaborative data analysis “storying stories” (Ford, 2021; McCormack, 2004), I ask what it means to [re]-conceive art education pedagogical practices in ways that are similar to the WAW mother artist group approach of generating a collaborative community of artistically-focused reciprocal mentorships. In this study, I utilize a matricentric feminist theoretical framework (O’Reilly, 2021) to examine the artistic conceptualizations of “normative motherhood” (O’Reilly, 2021) and theorize how WAW mother artists enact “empowered mothering” (O’Reilly, 2021) to reimagine art sites that support artists who identify as mothers and reconcile alleged tensions of dichotomous constructs of mother and/or identities.

Graduation Semester

2023-08

Type of Resource

Thesis

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Copyright 2023 Shannalia Reyes

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