Interest Group Asian Art and Culture
Interest Group Asian Art and Culture
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I am very delighted to write this first column of Asian Art and Culture (AAC) and share my great excitement for our new Interest Group.
As the Chair, I would like to express my gratitude to the initiative proposal committee—Ryan Shin, Michelle BaeDimitriadis, and Oksun Lee—for their thoughtful contributions and support in the new Interest Group organization process. During the 2017 NAEA Convention in New York, the NAEA Board of Directors unanimously approved AAC to become an official Interest Group of NAEA. I am looking forward to meeting NAEA members who are interested in researching, teaching, and learning about Asian art, culture, and beyond. Asia is the largest continent with more than half the world’s population.1 According to the Census Bureau (2015), Asian is the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and is expected to increase 115 percent by 2050. However, art education researchers and K-12 art educators have had limited access to Asian art, visual culture, and philosophy
due to the lack of published resources in the field. Vital members in the Asian Art and Culture Interest Group who are familiar with both Asian and North American educational contexts will provide relevant theoretical and pedagogical knowledge to NAEA members and beyond. This will help U.S. art educators not only understand Asian art forms, culture, and traditions, but also gain pedagogical approaches and implications leading to possibilities of intercultural, cross-cultural research and teaching, with the goal of global awareness and literacy. Through our positive involvement within NAEA as an active interest group, we hope to offer art educators from all around the world exceptional resources and diverse perspectives of Asian art, visual culture, philosophy, and educational practices. Asian Art and Culture (AAC) promotes teaching and scholarship of Asian art, visual culture, and philosophy in all levels of public education as well as museum and community settings. Through critical inquiry, discussion, collaboration, publication, and dissemination, AAC promotes scholarship that explores Asian traditional and contemporary philosophies, art forms, and artists. AAC also provides relevant content and pedagogies for all educators and researchers, such as classroom teaching resources and frameworks for research. AAC will inspire international, intercultural, and cross-cultural, engagement focusing on Asian philosophy, concepts, and practices of art and education within NAEA. For example, Cross Cultural Asian Art Education International Conference, organized by the Cross Cultural Asian Art Education Association in Asia, has over the last few years become a significant venue for many Asian contemporary art educators to share relevant ideas and practices of art education. As an NAEA Interest Group, we intend to work with Asian art educational organizations to develop collaborative conferences and research projects. We expect to develop
a strong relationship with a number of art educators from Asian countries and regions including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippine, and Taiwan. We also encourage their members to be actively involved in NAEA as constructive border-crossing artists-researchersteachers. The primary goals of Asian Art and Culture are to: • Increase research and scholarship of Asian art, visual culture, and pedagogy in art education. • Explore the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of teaching Asian art, artists, and visual culture. • Create and provide educational resources devoted to Asian art and culture to PK-12 art teachers and museum professionals. • Promote cross-cultural, intercultural research, and scholarship through intellectual and intercultural communication between American and Asian art educators. • Develop or support collaborative educational projects between Asian and U.S. schools, museums, and artbased community organizations. • Provide accurate information about Asian art and cultural history to U.S. schools, museums, and communities. • Address social injustice issues related to stereotypes, prejudices, and common misconceptions associated with Asian visual and popular culture. • Build a community of art education professionals who contribute to historical and contemporary research on Asian art and its cultural tradition. • Offer leadership in Asian art and culture in art education to the profession. I hope to see all current members and welcome new members at our first official business meeting at the 2018 NAEA National Convention in Seattle! 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
Maria Lim AAC Chair. Associate Professor of Art Education, School of Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts, The University of North Carolina Greensboro. E-mail: [email protected] Kevin Hsieh Columnist. Association Professor of Art Education, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University. E-mail: [email protected] 20
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Vol. 59, No. 4, August/September 2017
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I am very delighted to write this first column of Asian Art and Culture (AAC) and share my great excitement for our new Interest Group.
As the Chair, I would like to express my gratitude to the initiative proposal committee—Ryan Shin, Michelle BaeDimitriadis, and Oksun Lee—for their thoughtful contributions and support in the new Interest Group organization process. During the 2017 NAEA Convention in New York, the NAEA Board of Directors unanimously approved AAC to become an official Interest Group of NAEA. I am looking forward to meeting NAEA members who are interested in researching, teaching, and learning about Asian art, culture, and beyond. Asia is the largest continent with more than half the world’s population.1 According to the Census Bureau (2015), Asian is the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and is expected to increase 115 percent by 2050. However, art education researchers and K-12 art educators have had limited access to Asian art, visual culture, and philosophy
due to the lack of published resources in the field. Vital members in the Asian Art and Culture Interest Group who are familiar with both Asian and North American educational contexts will provide relevant theoretical and pedagogical knowledge to NAEA members and beyond. This will help U.S. art educators not only understand Asian art forms, culture, and traditions, but also gain pedagogical approaches and implications leading to possibilities of intercultural, cross-cultural research and teaching, with the goal of global awareness and literacy. Through our positive involvement within NAEA as an active interest group, we hope to offer art educators from all around the world exceptional resources and diverse perspectives of Asian art, visual culture, philosophy, and educational practices. Asian Art and Culture (AAC) promotes teaching and scholarship of Asian art, visual culture, and philosophy in all levels of public education as well as museum and community settings. Through critical inquiry, discussion, collaboration, publication, and dissemination, AAC promotes scholarship that explores Asian traditional and contemporary philosophies, art forms, and artists. AAC also provides relevant content and pedagogies for all educators and researchers, such as classroom teaching resources and frameworks for research. AAC will inspire international, intercultural, and cross-cultural, engagement focusing on Asian philosophy, concepts, and practices of art and education within NAEA. For example, Cross Cultural Asian Art Education International Conference, organized by the Cross Cultural Asian Art Education Association in Asia, has over the last few years become a significant venue for many Asian contemporary art educators to share relevant ideas and practices of art education. As an NAEA Interest Group, we intend to work with Asian art educational organizations to develop collaborative conferences and research projects. We expect to develop
a strong relationship with a number of art educators from Asian countries and regions including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippine, and Taiwan. We also encourage their members to be actively involved in NAEA as constructive border-crossing artists-researchersteachers. The primary goals of Asian Art and Culture are to: • Increase research and scholarship of Asian art, visual culture, and pedagogy in art education. • Explore the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of teaching Asian art, artists, and visual culture. • Create and provide educational resources devoted to Asian art and culture to PK-12 art teachers and museum professionals. • Promote cross-cultural, intercultural research, and scholarship through intellectual and intercultural communication between American and Asian art educators. • Develop or support collaborative educational projects between Asian and U.S. schools, museums, and artbased community organizations. • Provide accurate information about Asian art and cultural history to U.S. schools, museums, and communities. • Address social injustice issues related to stereotypes, prejudices, and common misconceptions associated with Asian visual and popular culture. • Build a community of art education professionals who contribute to historical and contemporary research on Asian art and its cultural tradition. • Offer leadership in Asian art and culture in art education to the profession. I hope to see all current members and welcome new members at our first official business meeting at the 2018 NAEA National Convention in Seattle! 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
Maria Lim AAC Chair. Associate Professor of Art Education, School of Art, College of Visual and Performing Arts, The University of North Carolina Greensboro. E-mail: [email protected] Kevin Hsieh Columnist. Association Professor of Art Education, The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University. E-mail: [email protected] 20
NAEA NEWS
Vol. 59, No. 4, August/September 2017
