Deepening Educational Impact with Artistic Inquiry

An Exploration of Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education through Visual Art

This cross-contextual exploration of art, education, and their implications for collective connection highlights Erin M. Price’s arts-based research, inQUIRE: A Chorus of Questions for Educational Research. This inquiry of personal teaching experience and contemporary issues presents a tour of art as both confluence and catalyst of connections across P-16 education, youth detention settings, and teacher professional development. Price showcases a number of projects and possibilities across educational settings, with attention to continued questions and conundrums for equity, inclusion, belonging, wellbeing, and the storied relationships at their core.

Artist, educator, and teacher-educator Erin M. Price, EdSp, is passionate about the powerful role art can play in cultivating connections to self, classroom, and society. With over 25 years of experience as an educator both in the U.S. and abroad, Erin’s personal teaching experiences – particularly as an art educator in remote rural Title 1 schools – continue to compel her work in informal and formal teaching as well as in educational research.

Currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Price employs her own experience with art and teaching in her roles as an undergraduate instructor for future elementary generalists and a University Field Supervisor for beginning art educators in St. Louis Public Schools. In these roles, she actively supports teacher identity development, reflective inquiry, and skill-based mentoring to enhance teachers’ capacities to cultivate meaningful inclusion through literature and the arts. Perhaps most importantly, she witnesses and supports the ways in which art helps teachers grow as individuals in a collective as they negotiate multilayered and increasingly challenging conditions in America’s public schools. Her scholarship aims to support community and social change through both the enactment and cultivation of affirmative connections made possible through art.

Price’s 2021 series, inQUIRE, exhibited at the University of Missouri in 2022, continues to pose critical questions of theory and practice for inclusive education and authentic research. Only through thoughtful contemplation and intentional relational interACTion, Price believes, can we intervene in vicious cycles of oppression, division, and disconnection which impact our students and our schools.

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Sponsored by Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation.

This event is part of the Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation Initiative.