HTLab: Photovoice: Art & Humanities Research & Pedagogy

Register here by May 2nd (WebEx link will be sent that week).

How can art be used as a research and pedagogical tool within a public humanities context?

In this final HTLab of the academic year, Gina M. Lewis, Associate Professor of Art in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Bowie State University, will demonstrate how instructors across disciplines can use arts methodologies in their pedagogical practices and for community-engaged teaching and learning. As a primary investigator on the C&O Canal National Historic Park Ethnohistories: African American Communities in Context project for the National Park Service, Professor Lewis experiments with photovoice as a methodology for community-based, participatory action research. Her project explores the experiences of historic and contemporary African American communities that have associations with or are impacted by the C&O Canal National Historic Park. Professor Lewis has engaged students and teachers from Friendly High School in Fort Washington, MD, as participant researchers using photovoice to explore the presence/absence and inclusion/exclusion of African American stories in the C&O Canal NHP and other related parks.

Questions? inclusionimperative@umbc.edu. If you are unable to attend, but would like to access a recording of the workshop, please contact Lindsay DiCuirci.