Freire and Visual Art Education

Gisella Vismara is a visual art educator and school teacher. She earned her BA in Art, Music, and Entertainment (DAMS) and a specialization in Visual Art Teaching at Bologna University, Italy. She taught “Museum Education” at Brera Academy of Fine Arts (2006-2020). She collaborates with the Lucio Saffaro Foundation. She has written books and articles concerning school, art education, museum didactics, cinema, art criticism, and literature. In 2023, she received a Ph.D. in Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna concerning Freire and visual art teaching.

• Series Editor’s IntroductionIntroductionPart I: Critical Education as a Political Act1. Brazil: 1946-19642. Education for Critical Consciousness3. “Coding and Decoding” as Liberating Acts in Literacy Programs4. Chile: 1964-19695. The Political Development of “Conscientization” 6. Freire’s Chilean Experiences and the Language of Praxis 7. Africa: 1975-1976. The experience in Guinea Bissau 8. Letters from Guinea Bissau: The Influence of Amílcar Cabral’s Marxism9. Back at Home in Brazil: 1980-199710. How the Freirean Critical Language is Still RelevantPart II: Visual Art Class at Middle School11. Foreword: school and social emancipation 12. “Fabio Besta” School: Socio-Economic Context and Italian and European Policy Guidelines13. Diary of an Italian Experience (2014-2019) 14. Stories of Resistance: Personal Notes on my Students and Events15. Body and Emotions Part III: Re-Imagining Freire’s Approach for Visual Art Education16. A Freirean Path for Radical Visual Art Pedagogy17. Research Through Coding 18. Decoding for Thematization (Interpretation) 19. Problematization as Recombination (Transformation)20. Contemporary Visual Arts and Images through a Freirean and Decolonial Approach21. Black “Venus”: From the Contemporary Stereotype to the Imagery of Sarah Baartman 22. Body and Sexuality: Racializing Women in the Western Canonical Art 23. Body, Identity, and Colonial LegacyConclusion References Index