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Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6714-0575

Abstract

This article seeks to infuse and enrich the spheres of Arts and Education through a nascent introduction of Ettingerian Matrixial Pedagogy. To articulate this, I weave together the practices of Gestare Art Collective, which we describe as “matrixial infused education,” the “placental thinking” of Nané Jordan with my own thinking, art making and teaching. This article unfolds through interlacing theory and reflections on teachings found within art practices of Ma Poses, Womb Walking, Nap-Ins, and Spontaneous Creation-Making, along with examples of pedagogical artworkings: Metramorphosis and Muted Colours of Grief. The article closes with a poetic métissage inquiry that became—a Matrixial Pedagogy Wom(b)anifesto.

Author Biography

Barbara Bickel, Ph.D. is an artist, writer, researcher, and educator. She is an Associate Professor of Art Education Emerita at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Core Faculty at Southwestern College, Santa Fe, USA, and co-founder of Studio M*: Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture and Healing based on the traditional lands of the Snunymuxw first Nation in what is now called Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Her art and arts-based writing strives to embody and live matrixial, Earth-based feminist and Indigenous worldviews that celebrate and embrace the sacred. www.barbarabickel.ca | www.StudioM.space

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