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| Dr. Charles Garoian, professor of art education and director of the School of Visual Arts, is author of Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics, a book inspired by one of Penn State’s academic conferences. |
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Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics, a book inspired by one of Penn State’s academic conferences, has received recognition in the peer-reviewed Art Journal. The book by Dr. Charles Garoian, professor of art education and director of the School of Visual Arts, promotes performance art and encapsulates Garoian’s symposium on Performance Art, Culture and Pedagogy.
Hosted by Penn State in 1996, the Performance Art, Culture and Pedagogy Symposium was a first-of-its-kind gathering of more than 340 leading performance artists, art critics, historians and educators from around the world. The book discusses the ways that selected performance artists, such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Suzanne Lacy, can impact teaching in schools by using memory and cultural history to critique dominant cultural assumptions, construct identity and act politically. Garoian also illustrates how his own memory and cultural history inform his performance artworks and his classroom teaching practices.
The Spring 2001 issue of Art Journal includes a review of the book and symposium. |
