Adriana Katzew

Massachusetts College of Art and Design · Art Education

Interdisciplinary Portfolio is a unique set of courses taught within the education department of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The authors discuss the ways in which these courses model interdisciplinarity by bridging the gap between studio art and non-arts classes. Drawing on examples from student work, the authors describe the ways...

This article argues that a commitment to the social justice potential of art education forces us to reconsider the constructed dialectic of "school" and "community." When emerging art educators are immersed in community encounters, they become reflexive teachers and learners, and they can awaken a relational, embodied self-understanding that they c...

The Barrio Mobile Art Studio, an educational outreach programme created in 1975 by the art centre Self Help Graphics, predominantly served Chicano/a and Mexican immigrant populations in East Los Angeles. The paper examines the creation of this programme, its philosophy and pedagogy in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and an agenda for equit...

This paper shows how a group of young people and researchers, through their reading of images, performed “identity work” within discourses of the body and gender in physical education. To explore young people's identity narratives and physicality, the researchers used an ethnographic method using photo-elicitation. Findings in this study showed the...

This article examines the first two seasons of the US television program Ugly Betty through a critical analysis of the show's text to see where and how the program reifies, subverts, complicates or destabilizes stereotypes of Latino/as. It specifically examines the Latina and the Latino body in terms of gender and sexuality, and also analyzes the c...

Art for art's sake had no place in the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At a time when Mexican Americans protested against societal injustices and demanded changes, art did not have the luxury to remain an activity for private consumption. Art became instrumental; it was created to have a social and political impact in the struggle of Chi...

This paper shows how a group of young people and researchers, through their reading of images, performed "identity work" within discourses of the body and gender in physical education. To explore young people's identity narratives and physicality, the researchers used an ethnographic method using photo-elicitation. Findings in this study showed the...

Oprah's success in a predominantly man's world and in a predominantly white U.S. environment has been attributed to her ability to reach a diverse segment of the U.S. society and the global community at large. Sociologists such as Katrina Bell McDonald further argue that virtually everyone in the United States-black, white, Latino/a, or Asian-embra...

This chapter examines the impact of Oprah Winfrey’s message on a selected group of Chicanas in California’s Central Valley comprised of college students and professionals. It shows that while Chicana viewers embrace Oprah’s message of love-thyself and self-actualization, they did not feel that her show addresses important “issues, problems, culture...

This is a collection of essays that explores Oprah Winfrey’s broad reach as an industry and media brand. Contributors analyze a number of topics touching on the ways in which Oprah’s cultural output shapes contemporary America. The book examines how Oprah has fashioned a persona—which emphasizes her rural, poverty-stricken roots over other factors—...