Project Showcase:
Arts Education for Sustainable Development
Showcasing arts learning experiences and teaching practices that address UN Sustainable Development Goals. Click on any project to learn more!
Making Rugs from Rags: A Critical Crafting Project
A resource for crafting simple rag rugs from discarded textiles, with the aim of promoting deeper engagement with textile and design history and with the histories and legacies of imperialism and industrialization.
Freshwater Monitoring Art Kit
A series of public workshops focusing on the ecologies and colonial histories of freshwater systems in the Metro-Vancouver area.
Using dance as a language in the architecture of social justice education, awareness and advocacy
Videos that use dance to tell stories of bullying, dating violence, and suicide awareness.
Global Goals Gallery: Art for a Sustainable Future
Grade 10/11 students from Westlane Secondary School in Niagara Falls created a series of pastel pieces inspired by the SDGs.
WATA - A stage play and educational toolkit
WATA is a stage play that places African history and culture center-forward and seeks to foster connections with the global Black Diaspora and indigenous communities.
See the Earth First
Photography project focused on "seeing the Earth" and slow looking.
A Dinner Party of Critical Topics in/through Art
An interactive dinner party art installation created by teacher candidates at Queen's University, focused on using art to explore critical issues and topics.
"Art in Action: Poetry and Collage, in Dialogue towards Peace and Social Justice" + "Education for Peace and Social Justice: Theory, Research and Praxis Art Exhibition"
Artistic responses to a conference theme at McGill University related to education for peace and social justice.
One Cell, the World: Climate Action Art & Research Catalogue
A hybrid research-art catalogue from Lakehead University with artworks from diverse communities on the climate crisis.
Climate Action: Visions of Hope
Created by senior art students at Sa-Hali Secondary, these paintings focus on how climate change is impacting lived experiences in Kamloops, BC and the wider Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc region.
The Ballad of Shubenacadie
A song and video inspired by a performance at the site of the former residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, on the very first Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada.
Youth Imagine the Future
A series of workshops and culminating exhibition that invite students in Grades 6-12 to imagine a better future with improved social justice and no fossil fuels.