Abstract
We highlight the ways we use image making as an arts-based methodology and research interventions to center U.S. Black women’s and girls’ worldmaking. Black women and girls have historically been excluded from image making. Furthermore, many social scientists use deficit models that perpetuate anti Black and sexist frames. We take up image making to challenge this research and privilege the ways Black girls and women re-present and re-visualize self, community, and society in the past, present, and future. To move ideas beyond representation each scholar shares their means and modes of employing image making as methodology and explore’ use of imagery, re-presentation, and re-visualizing and its potential for world making. Scholar 1 creates collages based in Black women’s archives to (re)tell historical narratives through visual art. Scholar 2 uses collective magazine-making to platform contemporary Black girls’meaning and image making. Inspired by the quiltmaking practices of Black women, Scholar 3 offers computational quilt patches made by Black girls that re-present how tech is imagined in Western contexts. Our work is a mosaic–capturing erased and silenced histories while offering new modes of “truths” through image-making. Concluding, we intend to encourage others to reflect and share how we can collectively push boundaries in research, pedagogy, and within discourses on visual politics and culture.
Presenters
Sheri LewisAssistant Professor, African American and African Studies, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States Mia Shaw
Assistant Professor, African American and African Studies, Michigan State University, United States Renée Wilmot
Assistant Professor, African American and African Studies, Michigan State University, Michigan, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
ART-BASED METHODOLOGY; BLACK FEMINISM; COMMUNITY; GALLERIES; EDUCATION
