Anti-Racist Pedagogy - Resources for Inclusive Teaching

Decolonial Strategies for the Art History Classroom

A zine for sharing exercises and resources assembled by Amber Hickey and Ana Tuazon.

All Monuments Must Fall

A collaboratively produced syllabus centered around "questions of how to remove racist memorials and build anti-racist, decolonial, anti-antiblackness, anti-patriarchal, anti-transphobic learning." 

Bibliography of BIPOC Artists, Collectors, and Dealers compiled by The Frick Collection

Anti-Racist Art Education (ARAE) Resources provided by the National Society for Education in Art and Design.

The Anti-Racist Art Teachers website seeks to "provide a free and centralized location for educators to access culturally relevant and responsive resources."​

The following articles investigate current trends in education and posit methods for reforming the art curriculum to be more inclusive.

Boyd Acuff, J. (2020). Afrofuturism: reimagining art curricula for black existence. Art Education, 73(3), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2020.1717910

Buffington, M. L., & Bryant, A. (2019). Changing practice: culturally sustaining pedagogy in art education. Art Education, 72(2), 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2019.1559587

Desai, D. (2010). The Challenge of New Colorblind Racism in Art Education. Art Education, 63(5), 22–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2010.11519084

Farcus, A. R. (2021). Seeing and Reading Color: Resisting Hegemonic Power From Within a Foundations Art Classroom. Art Education, 74(5), 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2021.1928472

Kraehe, A. M., & Herman, D. (2020). Racial encounters, ruptures, and reckonings: art curriculum futurity in the wake of black lives matter. Art Education, 73(5), 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2020.1789413

Rolling, J. H. J. (2022). Why antiracism matters. Art Education, 75(1), 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2021.1985932 

The following websites provide accessible means for discovering notable artists as well as open-access primary source materials produced by BIPOC artists.

• The New York Times column, "The Artists,"  is an ongoing series that features a new contemporary artist each month: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-artists
• The Artcyclopedia database makes it easy to find diverse works by organizing artists by nationality: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/nationalities/index.html
• The New York Library provides a number of digital collections showcasing BIPOC-produced artwork and artifacts, both historical and contemporary:
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
  • Africana and Black History
  • Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan
  • Charles Stewart Smith collection of Japanese prints
  • Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs

Arlington, A. K. (2018). Power and control: Responding to social injustice with photographic memes. Art Education, 71(6), 51–58.

Buffington, M. L. (2019). Confronting hate: ideas for art educators to address confederate monuments. Art Education, 72(1), 14–20.

Christenson, M. (2018). From the streets to the students: Tion Bukue and empowerment through graffiti. Art Education, 71(1), 52–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2018.1389599

Nolte-Yupari, S. T., & Bailey Jones, R. (2020). Tunnel Book Narratives: Telling Stories of Microaggressions. Art Education, 73(1), 46–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2019.1678219

Reeder, L. (2015). Kara Walker: Subtlety as a big idea. Art Education, 68(1), 51–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2015.11519306

Uhlig, S. (2021). "I believe in the power art": Vanessa german, citizen artist. Art Education, 74(3), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2021.1876472