Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond

Cindy Persinger is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Communication, Design, and Culture at California University of Pennsylvania, USA.Azar Rejaie is Associate Professor of Art History in and Chair of the Department of Arts and Communication at the University of Houston Downtown, USA.

• 1. Introduction (Azar Rejaie).- Part 1 Envisioning.- 2 Introduction to Envisioning (Cindy Persinger).- 3 What is Socially Engaged Art History? (Cindy Persinger).- 4 Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots (Laura Holzman).- 5  Art History and its Publics: Weighing the Pedagogical and Research Benefits ofCommunity-Engagement (Julia Sienkowicz).- 6 Visual Critical Pedagogy in High School: Students Offer an Alternative to the Official Art Curriculum (Ya'ara Gil-Glazer).- Part 2 Intersections.- 7 Introduction to Intersections (Azar Rejaie).- 8 Applied Art History: Theory and Praxis (Jenna Ann Altomonte).- 9 The Course Has Left the Classroom: Community Engagement, Consensus Building and Experiential Learning as Socially Engaged Art History (Jonathan Wallis).- 10 ObservingLight and Catching Reflections: Experiential Environmentally Centered Art Historical Practice In and Outside the Classroom (Kelly A. Wacker).- 11 Public Sculpture Exhibitions in Neighborhoods: Arts-Driven, Heritage-Based, Urban Revitalization, and Social Practice (Part 1) (Hilary A. Braysmith).- 12 Curatorial Practice as (Place) Making: Social Imagination, Cultural Laboratories, and Public Space in Madrid (2008–2015) (Olga Fernández López, Azucena Klett, andZoe López Mediero).- 13 Making Worlds: Normative and Other Art Histories of Visually Impaired Photographers (Vendela Grundell Gachoud).- Part 3 Implementation.- 14 Introduction to Implementation (Cindy Persinger).- 15 The Power of Silence: Ahmet Ögüt’s The Silent University (2012–Ongoing) (Luisa Santos).- 16 Curating to Remember Injustice: Exhibitions on Toyo Miyatake and Roger Shimomura (Aileen June Wang).- 17 HAIR CLUB: A Case Study for Socially Engaged Art History (Suzanne Gold, Kelly Lloyd, and Michal Lynn Shumate).- 18 The Running Fence Corporation, LLC and Sociality (John-Michael H. Warner).- 19 Turning Students into Social Practitioners and Neighborhood Youths and Young Adults into Project Assistants: Arts-Driven, Heritage-Based, Urban Revitalization, and Social Practice (Part 2) (Hilary A. Braysmith).- 20  Building Community (Art) History in “Standing Together: the Selma Burke Project (Terri Baltimore and Julia Sienkowicz).- 21 Student Docent Projects as Socially Engaged Art History (Rebecka A. Black and Carissa DiCindio).- 22 Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History (Laura M. Holzman).- 23 Reflections on Socially Engaged History (Cindy Persinger).