Author ORCID Identifier
0009-0001-9137-0407
Abstract
This arts-based self-inquiry presents a counternarrative of one woman artist/educator navigating identity formation, agency, and resistance within the gendered structures of the contemporary art world. Informed by posthuman feminist theory and guided by a/r/tography, the study uses artmaking as both inquiry and data to challenge the persistent divide between artist and art educator—particularly as experienced by women. Through reflexive writing and textile-based creation, the author offers a material and embodied critique of the systemic expectations that diminish women’s artistic authority and invisibilize their creative labor. The resulting work becomes a site of resistance, reclaiming artist identity through the layered intersections of lived experience, theory, and process. This counternarrative contributes to feminist art education and arts-based research by foregrounding the resilience of women artist/educators and illuminating how creative practice can disrupt dominant narratives and affirm alternative ways of knowing, becoming, and making in the world.
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© The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Recommended Citation
Jervis, Jennifer
(2025)
"Red Thread, Unknotted: A Visual Self-Inquiry into Becoming Artist /Educator,"
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education: Vol. 8, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ijllae/vol8/iss1/8
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