PH. (2014). Photograph documenting object metaphor exercise. In class visual journaling experience.

"By way of art education students will unlock their potential as young people -- seeking the truth about themselves and will place their prior experiences on a hook as if a garment carefully stitched together by educators, parents, and friends.  By sharing stories about and with one another, students will regard artists as teachers whose own narratives inspire, shape, and rewrite the truth." (PH, visual journal entry, 2/2014)

D. Bradshaw. (2013). Dislocation. Collograph and stencil on paper with embroidery.

"The operating curriculum of DBAE has been so firmly entrenched here that as I discuss visual culture, social justice and feminist art education I find that both I and the students get overwhelmed.  I, with how much I want to share with them in this race against time; they, with how much they are surprised and excited by these new-found aspects of art education."   (PI, email communication, 11/2013).

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Metaphor is clearly one of the foundations of all human mental activity, a foundation upon which our systematic logics of rational inquiry also rest, or--a better metaphor--a ground out of which they grow.  (Egan, 2005, p.14). 

Egan, K. (2005). An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA:  Jossey Bass.