WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art

Authors

  • Dionne Custer Edwards Ohio State University — OSU, Ohio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2357-9854.89345

Keywords:

Global Learning. Arts Learning. Contemporary Art. Film. Brazil.

Abstract

WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art is an art education program that allows K-12 students to engage in global cultural learning through arts learning. Each year, WorldView examines a new theme with social impact around the globe, and inserts experience with work by a contemporary artist and study as a way for learners to access and explore both pertinent global issues and topical contemporary art. Through WorldView, learners and educators engage creatively with a different social issue each year. This article will examine the program’s methods and practice, featuring WorldView: Brazil, a programmatic collaboration within the Wexner Center for the Arts. The WorldView: Brazil program incorporated Brazilian visual arts and film by centering on Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil (exhibition), Doméstica (film by Gabriel Mascaro), and Wasteland (film by Lucy Walker). The program created a layered learning experience with art, culture, identity, social studies, and humanities.

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Author Biography

Dionne Custer Edwards, Ohio State University — OSU, Ohio

Dionne Custer Edwards writes poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid forms. She is an educator at The Wexner Center for the Arts, and created Pages, a writing program where she curates writing and arts experiences for high school students and their teachers, and co-edits an anthology of teen writing and art. She has work in or forthcoming in 3Elements Review, The Seventh Wave, Stoneboat, Tahoma Literary Review, Grist, and others. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and three sons. Find her online at lifeandwrite.com. 

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Published

2018-12-30

How to Cite

EDWARDS, Dionne Custer. WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art. Revista GEARTE, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 3, 2018. DOI: 10.22456/2357-9854.89345. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/gearte/article/view/89345. Acesso em: 9 aug. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2018): Diálogos entre o Ensino de Artes Visuais no Brasil e em outros contextos

Section

Diálogos entre o Ensino de Artes Visuais no Brasil e em outros contextos

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