Art Education

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Research as Resilience in Times of Change

Amelia M. Kraehe

To cite this article: Amelia M. Kraehe (2019) Research as Resilience in Times of Change, Art
Education, 72:1, 4-5, DOI: 10.1080/00043125.2019.1538716

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Editorial
Research as Resilience
in Times of Change
E very New Year, millions of people resolve
to make a change in their lives that is
personally meaningful. Some change-
making resolutions commit us to doing
more: making and showing more of our
own art, getting to the gym more often
each week, becoming more organized.
Other resolutions are about doing less:
spending less time on social media,
losing weight, entertaining fewer negative
thoughts.
There are other times when change comes to us uninvited. The
imposition of change in personal and professional realms of life
can bring added stress and a heightened sense of uncertainty.
Resilience in times of change can make all the difference.
Resilience is a kind of elasticity, an ability to bounce back from
difficulties and keep going. For the artist, developing resiliency can
be full of contradictions:
 our your blood, sweat, and tears into your work. Maintain
P
healthy boundaries. You must charge for your time. Don’t charge
too much, you have to make a living. Don’t let money influence
your expression. The customer is always right. Maintain your
artistic integrity. You’re born with artistic talent. Art can be
learned. Stick with it. Know when to call it quits. (Waters, 2018,
para. 1)
Perhaps thriving in times of change requires living within such
contradictions.
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Resilience in art, design, and art museum education is a
collective striving, not a solitary one. The knowledge that is
generated and shared in spaces like this journal helps ensure
that integrity and innovation are possible in all corners of the
field. Research—what I define as any systematic investigation
that generates new knowledge—can strengthen and stretch the
disciplines of art, design, and art museum education. We may even
say research provides the elasticity without which our creative
practices contract and become rigid, too stiff to bounce back when
times change.
This issue of Art Education explores the varied ways art
educators engage in research as an act of resilience, resistance,
and renewal. In “Reclaiming Creativity Through Objects,
Collaboration, and Site-Specific Work,” Karla Stauffer
shares classroom research in which students’ engagement in
contemporary installation art stretched their definitions of art,
sharpened their creative problem-solving skills, and bolstered
pride in their artmaking.
In response to racial tension and resistance surrounding the
display of Confederate monuments and the Confederate flag
in public space, Melanie L. Buffington presents oft-forgotten
historical contexts, along with bold ideas and new resources
from contemporary art that support art, design, and art museum
educators in facilitating discussion and artmaking related to
contentious art debates, in “Confronting Hate: Ideas for Art
Educators to Address Confederate Monuments.”
In light of changes to art educator certification, Nanyoung
Kim describes her research on the latest teacher performance
assessment tool and highlights the difficulties she and her
preservice art education students faced in “Challenges of
Teaching and Preparing edTPA.” Jennifer Fisher, in her article
“‘They Didn’t Tell Us How’: Teaching High-Ability Students
in a Secondary Setting,” examines secondary art educators’
preparedness for teaching high-ability art students and finds areas
in which more professional education and support are needed to
serve this special population of art students.
For “A Mini Body of Work: Art Practice as Research,” Judith A.
Briggs and Nicole DeLosa present a detailed case study of how
one art educator renewed her curriculum using creative practice
and visual diaries as research methods with high school students.
David Burton explores the importance of demography for
opening up new ways of seeing the various facets of art education
and where the field is going in “Demographic Research: The Big
Picture in Research.”
The Instructional Resources, “Knolling: The Art of Material
Culture” by Lauren Fritts, offers a range of work by sculptors,
photographers, installation artists, and designers to illustrate
knolling, a method of curating everyday objects, and shares a
variety of ideas for cross-disciplinary K–12 studio activities.
In times of change, standing still may not be an option. Why
not resolve every day to be inspired, grow, adapt, and, thus, sustain
your art, design, or art museum education practice? Research, like
that featured in this issue, could be creative fuel for our ongoing
collective resilience. n
—Amelia M. Kraehe, Senior Editor

Reference
Waters, B. (2018, June 27). The resilient artist: One artist’s path toward
resilience and success [Blog post]. Psychology Today. Retrieved from www.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/design-your-path/201806/the-resilient-artist

Amelia M. Kraehe is associate professor of art and visual

culture education at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Email:
arteducationjournal@gmail.com

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