A graphically compelling, richly illustrated and theoretically robust text for artists, designers, teachers, and those who prepare teachers. Social activism, injustice, oppression, isolation, pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and climate change are a few of the critical issues surrounding artists and educators. These are field notes for meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration, bridging practice and theory through its use of design, narrative, and descriptions of innovative artistic practices.

Contributors look for vibrantly sufficient and divergent practices - these are methods that are conditional, variable, and influenced by context. They describe learning environments that are transformational and that promote personal growth, self-actualization, and sustained investigation of important issues.

Chapters explore bricolage, collage, design, photography, spiritual dimensions of art-making, ideas about nature, drawing, painting, the human form in art, contemporary art and appropriation, and curriculum theory alonside interviews with artists Mark Dion, Nina Katchadourian, Kevin Cole, Oliver Herring, and Delphine Diallo.