Pratt Fine Arts’ Project Third (P3) 2020 Presents
2020-2021: Decolonial Art Pedagogies
In Fall ‘20 and Spring 21’, P3 will present Decolonial Art Pedagogies, a series of events that propose decolonial, alternative, and radical pedagogical models for education, starting with a focus on Indigenous pedagogies at the intersection with art education, social practice, and performance art. P3 will feature an array of programming focused on Indigenous epistemologies, pedagogies, research, community practice, and performance art via a series of lectures, an artist’s residence, conversations, workshops, performances, and student engagements.
Decolonial Art Pedagogies was conceived to demonstrate how the recognition and implementation of Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies may lead to promoting a culture of radical social and political inclusion for Indigenous peoples (and for society at large), a process of developing awareness around Indigenous sovereignty; and demonstrating how performance art and social practice, approached from a pedagogical perspective, may activate social engagement, address social injustice and inequity, and lead to processes of social change on the Pratt campus and beyond.
Decolonial Art Pedagogies is a collaboration between Art and Design Education, Center for Teaching and Learning, Fine Arts, Franklin Furnace Archive, Performance and Performance Studies, and Social Science and Cultural Studies’ The Global South Center.
While considering the history of this territory we ask: What constitutes knowledge, knowledge production, and decolonial approaches to pedagogy approached through the lens of an Indigenous framework within Pratt Institute?
In order to tackle this question, Pratt Fine Arts’ Project Third (P3) seeks to introduce decolonial approaches to art and art education based on Indigenous knowledges, local histories, art, and histories of settlement that allow for cross-disciplinary dialogue; led by Indigenous artists, academics, and activists.
For Spring 2021 Events click here
To view past Fall 2020 Workshops click here and to view Events click here
By acknowledging Indigenous lands and sovereignty at Pratt and initiating a conversation that thus far remains largely absent at the Institute, we can begin to engage in a self-reflexive process around our pedagogical models and start to implement decolonial approaches to:
- diversify our pedagogical approaches;
- provide institutional support and space for Indigenous cultural producers to create programs involving students, administration, staff, and faculty;
- start to diversify Pratt Institute by reaching out to Indigenous student applicants;
- eventually hire Indigenous faculty and staff;
- promote Indigenous perspectives on land and sustainability that support Pratt’s divestment plan.
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Pratt Project Coordinator
Carlos Motta, Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Pratt Collaborators
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies
Heather Lewis, Professor, Art and Design Education
Amy Khoshbin, Civic Engagement Fellow, Fine Arts
Ann Messner, Professor, Fine Arts
Jennifer Miller, Professor, Humanities & Media Studies
Jazmin Peralta, Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Jane South, Chairperson of Fine Arts
Judit Török, Director, Pratt’s Center for Teaching and Learning
Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace Archive
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Funded by Pratt Strategic Funding (2020-2021)
