Borderlands Art Pedagogies as Community, Classroom, and Artist Practice

About this episode

This episode discusses borderlands-informed art pedagogies and their impact on community and classroom practices.

This episode of CAA Conversations, featuring Lilia Cabrera, Gina Gwen, and Christen S. García, considers borderlands-informed art pedagogies as acts of classroom, community, and artist practice, in both formal and informal spaces of art education. These guests make productive liminal spaces of art education by harnessing cultural, navigational, familial, creative, and linguistic capital. Lilia Cabrera explores multiple environments with her art education students, offering experiences to work alongside hospital patients, asylum seekers in shelters, and resident doctors in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, hospitals. Her students work with communities with a range of age groups, motor skills, and cognitive abilities. She has taught art at various levels ranging from early childhood to university. She creates opportunities that align with the education of regional communities lacking in art experiences and has led art education students to create art workshops to delicate, low-economic, and multicultural youth in a border town. Cabrera is a lecturer for the art education program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and an Associate Dean for Student Succes for the College of Fine…

People in this episode

Guests: Lilia Cabrera, Gina Gwen Palacios, Christen S. García

Topics covered

• art education
• borderlands
• community practice
• cultural capital
• informal learning
• multicultural youth

Keywords

• art pedagogies
• community engagement
• cultural narratives
• art workshops
• asylum seekers
• hospital patients
• educational practices

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Places: Rio Grande Valley, Texas, South Texas

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