Possibilities for thinking differently in primary visual arts education

Abstract

A/r/tographic inquiry provides opportunities to understand the agentive qualities of both human and non-human beings in the meaning making process. This visual essay explicates a process of art making where both artist and art materials are recognised as affective agents. Through entangling these affective agents, possibilities for thinking and doing differently in primary visual arts education settings arise. In attending to the human and non-human intra-connected ecology of classroom, school and community, I ruminate on how we can make change in and through visual arts teaching in the primary school classroom.