This companion demonstrates how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity- and justice-driven. Specifically, this book provides arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary art world that cross disciplinary lines.

Introduction PART I Creative Shorts 1. A Is For Alphabet: Reimagining Language And Mastery As A Creative Meandering 2. Critical Reflections on Teaching as a Decolonial Practice 3. Angrez chale gaye, Angrezi chod gaye: Post-coloniality of Language 4. Mind the sky (or forgetting and the imposed futurity of the present): A poem 5. Assembling Desire 6. lutruwita/Tasmania's Fauna: Artistic Imaginings With Native Wildlife 7. Reclaiming Dreams of our Shared Future: Decolonizing Metanarratives Around What Can/Should/Will Be Through Imaginative Diegesis 8. A Palimpsest of Pulverization in Occupied Palestine: Artistic Intervention as Counter-Representation on the Mediterranean Coast 9. Time to Trespass: Annotations to 13 Appearances 10. From Art to Artifact: A Sestina on Public Art Policy in Confederate Monument Removal Case Law 11. Co-Creating Fine Arts Learning: Decolonial & Intersectional Strategies 12. Hilando Historias y Territorios: Textile Cartography of Contemporary Indigenous Communities PART II Enacted Encounters 13. In Fontaine's Footsteps: Students' Visual Essays Tackle the Difficult History of Canada's Indian Residential Schools 14. Unsettling Colonial Narratives in the Art Museum 15. Transborder Provocaciones through Lozano-Hemmer's Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo Public Art Installation 16. Creating Máscar(a/illa)s: A Decolonizing Us-ing 17. Decolonization of Theater Education: An Examination of the Collective Creative Process Through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 18. Cultural Networking, Storytelling and Zoom during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Conversations with African-Caribbeans on using a Decolonized Digital Arts-based Educational Platform 19. Art as a Bridge for Decolonizing Grief and Accessing My Neuroqueer Spirit 20. Transgressive Enactments: Research-Creation as Anti-Colonial Praxis 21. Outside the Classroom & Outside the Books: Extending the Classroom for "Antiessentialist" Curriculum 22. Explorations for Decolonizing the Curriculum Regarding Technology 23. Activating Curiosity, Heart, and Artistic Identity to Engage Ecojustice 24. Imagining our Neighborhood of Nonhuman Residents: Sensorial Attunement as Ecological Aesthetic Inquiry 25. Root A/r/tography from Native Seeds PART III Ruminative Research 26. Artistic Practice as Land Acknowledgement 27. Beyond the Veneer of Modernism: Aesthetics, Post-Africanity and the 'Multiversum' Narrative 28. Exorcising the Colonialist: The Cuna Figures of the San Blas Islands and other Forms of Mimesis and Mimicry29. A Critique of Grand Hegemony: Disrupting Historical Valuations of Public Space Through Pervasive Gaming 30.Art Education and entangled knowledge in the digital age: Learning from Tabita Rezaire's Premium Connect 31. Raranga and Tikanga Pa Harakeke - An Indigenous Model of Socially Engaged Art and Education 32. Decolonization and the Degeneralization of Time in Art Education Historiography 33. Nepantlando: A Borderlands Approach to Curating, Art Practice, and Teaching 34. Crafting Criticality Into My Wayfaring Jewish Ancestors' Colonial Trade Connections 35. Decolonizing Blood, Body and Brain: From the Visual Practices of Jonathan Kim 36. Decolonizing Formal Art Education in Germany 37. Towards Frontiers of Decolonization in Contemporary Nigerian Art Markets 38. Histories and Pedagogics from the Underside(s) of Modernity Afterword