Within my teaching practice I often share relevant references, designers, artists and websites with my students. This is either as a planned part of a session, in which a list of references is explored by the students to foster discussions or give them context for their task at hand, or spontaneously during tutorials and seminars while discussing their design work.
While preparing a session I find most of the resources online through google and design blogs or by looking for exhibition histories of galleries and museums. Sometimes I look through similar briefs from the past and take a note of relevant projects, artists and designers.
For spontaneous recommendations during tutorials I can only draw from what I know and many references I point students towards during a tutorial are studios that I know through my design practice. However through my PG Cert reflections I have become more inquisitive about my teaching materials and I found that most of the references I share are very white-centered and one-sided.
For my artefact I want to create a diverse list of references that are specific to my teaching context. In detail that means animators, digital artists, technology-enhanced events, projection mapping projects and installations that are either thematically diverse or are created by a racially and ethnically diverse range of artists and designers.
I most likely don’t have any more teaching until September so I will need to find another way to get input and critique.
I will start by looking at the following references:
https://www.shadesofnoir.org.uk/creatives/?_ga=2.62584172.1777604717.1622059695-665401125.1618170556
https://www.shillingtoneducation.com/blog/bipoc-resources-creatives/
Contextual reading:
Kaczmarczyk, A & Allee-Herndon, Karyn & Roberts, Sherron. (2018). Using Literacy Approaches to Begin the Conversation on Racial Illiteracy. The Reading Teacher. 10.1002/trtr.1757. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1757
Whiteness in Higher Education
https://issuu.com/shadesofnoir/docs/peekaboo_we_see_you_whiteness/s/151921
Peekaboo We See You: Whiteness by Shades Of Noir – issuu
https://issuu.com/shadesofnoir/docs/peekaboo_we_see_you_whiteness
Reconstructing Practice: Strategies for an Antiracist Art & Design Field – The Preamble
https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/reconstructing-practice-strategies-for-an-antiracist-art-design-field/