Blackwood Gallery in the Classroom for Instructors

Presented by: UTM-RGASC

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This session takes the Blackwood Gallery’s Lines, Pattern, Action exhibition as an entry point for noticing a familiar colonial binary in our own classrooms: which forms of knowledge we treat as rigorous scholarship, and which we discount as craft, anecdote, or supplement. The exhibition artists inherited that same distinction in their own training and later refused it, building work that treats ancestral knowledge as equally legitimate and rigorous as scientific data. Moving through the gallery and drawing from the artworks, we’ll

Participants will leave with a chance to see something familiar in their own teaching practices a little differently, and some early thinking about where the Blackwood might support, extend, or complicate their pedagogy.