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Beautiful Trouble: From Assignment to Publication

February 8, 2018

Beautiful Trouble: From Assignment to Publication

Critical Multiculturalism artwork

AAEP students Michelle Attias, Youngaah Koh, Kate Bryant Nordstrom, Audrey Reeves, and Katie Owens Uelk published a multimodal module on critical multiculturalism on the website, Beautiful Trouble. Beautiful Trouble “exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools to inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.” Beautiful Trouble is separated into modules around “tactics,” “principles,” “theories,” “case studies,” and “practitioners.” The students, enrolled in Dr. Joni Boyd Acuff’s Critical Analysis of Multicultural Art Education course, were tasked with collaboratively developing an informative theoretical module that taught critical multiculturalism in an accessible way and introduced readers to the theory through an art lens. To complete the module, the graduate students worked as a team to write all of the module’s components and research the modules that would be listed as related tactics, principles and theories. The students explored the ways art, artists, arts policy and art education all interact with and are implicated in critical multicultural issues. The students also created the module’s accompanying artwork. Fortunately, the students’ module submission was successful and was accepted for online publication. Check out the newly published module here.