kimmith

I am an arts educator, curriculum theorist and qualitative methodologist concerned with art as an interdisciplinary site of study informed through such fields as performance studies, cultural studies and educational anthropology. Writing largely from an ethnographic perspective, I focus primarily on the following issues: 1) artistic practice and performance as critical aspects of social change and identity; 2) a comprehensive view of education that recognizes multiple places of learning such as arts organizations, cultural and community centers, and schools as important and influential sites of curriculum, learning, and pedagogy; and 3) the body and the senses (e.g., seeing, hearing) as critical modes of mediation, communication and representation of human experience and knowledge. These avenues of research have contributed to my interest and expertise in arts-based research, an approach informed by the aesthetic properties and modes of experience that the arts engender. I publish both within and outside of the field of art education in order to create a dialogue across disciplinary borders about the arts in and as everyday life.