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Abstracts
Abstract
Students from three universities in China and the United States worked together on a portrait painting project called ‘Fusion-Image’. It is meant to get youths trading photos of their peers who live on different continents to make art. In addition to portraiture's ability to shed light on the human, emotional, and spiritual, 'Fusion-Image' goes beyond this to pique and address students' interest in various materials and techniques, including digital painting. At the study's conclusion, many participants expressed gratitude for allowing them to question and trouble previously held biases. The project is a practical experiment on artistic creation that may spark respect and tolerance, it illuminates art education in the context of social responsibility for cultural diversity. This has ramifications for the development of art curricula, for we believe that an attitude free of stereotypes in the classroom will produce more engaging and versatile pedagogical and scholastic outputs. The purpose of this article is to examine how art education for students of different cultures, ethnicities, and regions can help confront cross-cultural issues and, on this basis, enhance thinking about core issues in art, such as tradition, ideas, spirituality, times, and many other matters, based on the work of two art teachers in China and the USA.
Keywords:
- Multicultural,
- Art Education,
- Portrait Painting,
- Curriculum Design
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Biographical notes
Lei Chen, a scholar/artist/ educator from Beijing, China, is a new Ph.D. student in Curriculum & Pedagogy/Art Education at UBC and will start her new life in Vancouver. She conducts a comparative, cross-cultural study of art education in the East and West, particularly combining Western scholarly research and Eastern perceptual understanding. Meanwhile, she considers the multi-layers of collaboration between social forces in art education, including schools, communities, and museums. As an artist with a wide range of academic interests, she makes art from painting to fabric, regarding them as the role of bridging her heart with this world.
Miguel Carter-Fisher is currently based in his hometown, Richmond, Virginia. His interest in the arts began as a child and was nurtured by his father, the late painter Bill Fisher. At 18 he moved to Connecticut, where he studied both painting and philosophy at the University of Hartford. After graduating, Miguel moved to Brooklyn to attend the New York Academy of Art. There he studied traditional drawing, painting, and composition techniques. After graduate school, he worked at Soho Art Materials, where he educated artists, collectors, and galleries on diverse methods and materials of painting. While maintaining an active artistic practice, Miguel is currently an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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