CIES 2024 CONFERENCE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA

The Scale

Thu, March 7, 11:00am to 12:30pm, 

Zoom Rooms, Zoom Room 101

Group Submission Type: Visual Art Exhibit

Description of Session 

Through the image of one child walking alone carrying a scale surrounded by their lived experiences, The Scale is intended to draw attention to the educational disparities experienced by children around the world and the importance of children’s domestic and international rights. The artwork aims to serve as a reminder of the power of education to empower, and the need for collective action to ensure that no child is left behind.

The metaphor of Fault Lines implies both, an infinitely malleable form and metaphor for the borders and divisions that make up our world. As we struggle with the symptoms of a divided society, armed conflicts, large-scale displacement of human populations, increasing wealth gaps within and between nations, educational inequality, accelerating climate change, and the challenging role of arts in times of popularism, it becomes even more urgent to reflect on these conditions and offer possibilities of coming together and break new ground. 

While art represents a vivid site for learning, it also perpetuates and makes visible concurrent systems of oppression and exclusion. As the grounds of inequality shift beneath us, will the arts and education deepen the rifts in society or become our bridge and pathway for the 21st century? How can art education contribute to resolving today’s challenges?

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Curated by Maria Apostolidis

Artists: Areej Mawasi, Sara Michelle Pan Algarra, Jennifer Fricas, Reyila Hadeer, Amy Scott Metcalfe, Maisa Mreiwed, Caitlin Shepherd, Yingxue Yang, Basic Education Coalition, Qais Assali, Myriam Hernandez

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Session 44: Art Hive Workshop, P. 9

Natural dyeing as a pedagogical tool (making collars using natural resources)

Art Educator Maisa Mreiwed

(Concordia University)