WorldView: Cultural Intersections in Contemporary Art

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.

Keywords

• global learning. arts learning. contemporary art. film. brazil.