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Artful and Creative Encounters explores the possibilities of arts-based educational research through a collaboratively curated collection of creative, dialogic, and reflective scholarly practices. Advancing the concept of “exquisite curation” as both methodology and provocation, the book brings together contributors working across arts education, teacher education, a/r/tography, museum practice, community-based inquiry, and creative pedagogy to examine how artistic practice can function not only as a subject of research, but as a mode of inquiry, relational engagement, and knowledge production.
Structured as an ongoing conversation between authors, editors, images, and creative forms of expression, the collection challenges conventional distinctions between theory and practice, research and art-making, scholarship and creative process. Across the volume, visual materials, critical reflections, dialogic exchanges, and experimental forms of writing are woven together to generate unexpected connections and encounters while exploring alternative approaches to educational research, collaborative inquiry, and creative pedagogy.
Central to the project is a sustained engagement with curation, relational editorialship, and forms of “slow scholarship” that resist the pressures of speed, productivity, and conventional academic structures. The collection foregrounds care, attentiveness, responsiveness, and imaginative connection as vital scholarly practices, while also reflecting critically on the institutional and epistemological assumptions that continue to shape educational research and creative practice.
Combining theoretical reflection with grounded examples from arts education and teacher training, the book offers an accessible yet intellectually ambitious contribution to contemporary discussions of arts-based research, postcolonial and new materialist methodologies, collaborative scholarship, and creative inquiry. The result is a collection that positions artful methods not as supplementary to research, but as transformative practices capable of expanding the boundaries of scholarship, pedagogy, and systemic change within and beyond educational contexts.
Geraldine Burke is a senior lecturer at Monash University, Australia, an artist-researcher and teacher-educator who crafts playful, poetic spaces where art and education meet to build culturally responsive, intergenerational and place-based learning through the arts. Her research engages with artistic practice, pedagogy and community projects and privileges the intersection of material knowledge, socially engaged research practices, and image and text as a means to explore issues of our time.
Michelle Ludecke is a Senior Lecturer in teacher education and the arts at Monash University, Australia. She employs arts-based methods to explore key issues concerning transitions in teaching, such as the formation and transformation of teachers’ professional identity, and the embodiment of teaching practices.
List of figures
Table of digital assets
Acknowledgements
Storying the arts, creativity, and education through non-traditional research: An exquisite curation
Geraldine Burke*, Michelle Ludecke*
Curation 1 Encounters with voice/community
Encounter 1 Editors’ introduction
Layers of trust through film-based research: Enacting community co-design and resistance
Emma-Jaye Gavin*, Jillian Holt* X Olivia Millard*, Nicole Rinehart*, Ana Mantilla*
Encounter 2 Editors’ introduction
‘It’s as if you’re there’: Learning in the liminal
Deira Nebauer* X Michelle Ludecke*
Encounter 3 Editors’ introduction
Relational a/r/tography with/in the cultural interface: Stories of Ethnodrama and Printmaking
Angela Foley* X Danielle Hradsky*
Curation 2 Encounters and experimentations with arts methods
Encounter 4 Editors’ introduction
Co-dreaming and imaginal leapings
Michael Fisher*, Barbara Bickel*, and Miriam Potts*
Encounter 5 Editors’ introduction
Cultivating aesthetic agility: Adaptive learning with the extra/ordinary
Koichi Kasahara* X Geraldine Burke*
Encounter 6 Editors’ introduction
Meeting in the middle: Material agencies and iterative conversations
Amy Mortimer* X Nnenna Okore*
Encounter 7 Editors’ introduction
What lies beneath?
Mark Ammermann* X Lleah Smith*
Curation 3 Encounters with teacher capacity: Mentoring through the arts
Encounter 8 Editors’ introduction
Trusting the messiness: Towards an artful ecosystem for educators
Katie Hotko* X Sue Girak*, Jodie Davidson*
Encounter 9: Editors’ introduction
Fostering passionate performing arts experts
Susan Chapman* X Renée Crawford*, Louise Jenkins*
Curation 4 Re-encounters through the arts: Exploring institutional diversity
Re-encounter 10 Editors’ introduction
Coming together: Sharing abstracts with each other
Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford*
Artmaking to address complex environmental and sustainability issues in teacher education
Kerry Power* with responses by Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford*
Jumping on the Bitmoji bandwagon: Artful learning from a lockdown phenomenon
Helen Grimmett* with responses by Kerry Power*, Linda Henderson*, Nish Belford*
Supporting pre-service teachers in examining childhoods in a changing world
Linda Henderson* with responses by Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Nish Belford*
Exploring the reciprocity of artmaking and pedagogical learning in developing ‘artistry of teaching’ for pre-service art teachers
Nish Belford* with responses by Kerry Power*, Helen Grimmett*, Linda Henderson*
Flexi Bumps
Kerry Power* X Helen Grimmett* X Linda Henderson* X Nish Belford*
Notes on Contributors
Glossary