Doing Our Homework: Preparing to Facilitate Social Justice Art Education

Marit Dewhurst, Director of Art Education and Professor of Art and Museum Education 

at The City College of New York (CUNY)

Marit Dewhurst is the Director of Art Education and Professor of Art and Museum Education at The City College of New York. She has worked as an arts educator and program coordinator in multiple arts contexts including community centers, museums, juvenile detention centers, and international development projects. Her research and teaching interests include social justice education, community-based art, youth empowerment, and the role of the arts in community development. In addition to multiple journal articles and chapters, her first book, Social Justice Art: A Framework for Activist Art Pedagogy highlights young activist artists. Her second book, Teachers Bridging Difference: Exploring Identity with Art describes how to use art as a tool to connect people across different sociocultural identities.