Recently published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society include:

• The Inclusion of the Visually Impaired In Film Experience by Jacob Udayi Agba and James E. Olayi.
• Fostering an Entrepreneurial Capacity among Creative Industries Students in Higher Education by Adrian Margey.
• Dance in the Weave of the City: A Proposal for Five Case Studies by Dagmar Simon, Ralph Buck and Jennifer Hand.
• An Analysis of Javanese Influences on Malaysian Motifs in Batik Sarong Design by Rafeah Legino and David Forrest.
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Emerging Readers Draw Their Reading by Lauren McCann.
• Embedding “Design Thinking” in Business School Curriculum by Ward Eagen, Kristen Aspevig, Wendy Cukier, Robert Bauer and Ojelanki Ngwenyama.
• Describing Music: Perception and Metaphor by Tiago Videira.
• Sociological Causation of Worth Distinction in Contemporary Visual Arts by Zahra Rahbarnia and Samineh Ansari.
• Cyberformance and the Cyberstage by Christina Papagiannouli.
• Destruction of Monuments in Europe: Reasons and Consequences by Rozmeri Basic.
• The Nobrow Aesthetics: The Relative Arts Era by Janaína Quintas Antunes.
• Overcoming the Heisenberg Principle: Art Theory Arising out of Wolfgang Pauli’s Collapsed Wave by Lisa Paul Streitfeld.

As a ‘critic at large’, Chris Thurman has engaged with the work of theatre practitioners, musicians, dancers, visual artists and writers from across the South African arts spectrum. In this collection of journalistic essays, reviews and interviews produced over the course of five years, he not only explores the role of the arts – and the challenges facing artists – in a country still completing its transition to democracy, but also asks provocative questions about a range of social and political issues. Informed by an awareness of South Africa’s complex cultural history/histories, At Large offers a snapshot (or, rather, a series of snapshots) of the arts in the country during the early years of the twenty-first century, providing insight into the production and reception of both ‘local’ and ‘global’ artistic phenomena.

Chris Thurman teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and contributes to various publications as arts critic, political commentator and travel writer. His other books are Sport versus Art: A South African Contest, Guy Butler: Reassessing a South African Literary Life and Text Bites: South African Poems, Plays, Stories and Non-fiction.

Volume 6, Issue 4 contains:

• An Artistic Logic of Practice: The Case of the Performer by Kathleen Coessens.
• The Ceramics of Tajul Shuhaizam Said by Tajul Shuhaizam Said, Harozila Ramli and Mohd Fauzi Sedon.
• Narrative & Moral Meaning by Chris Jury.
• Without ‘Pataphysics – No Art, No Science by Klaus Ferentschik.
• Managing Instability: Selected Case Studies in the Sustainability of Social Centers and Independent Cultural Centers in Italy and Europe by Patrick Waldo and Laura Lee Odegaard.
• Communal Cartographies: Examining “Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago” by Helena Shaskevich.
• Multidiscipline-based Art Education Model: A Possible Way for Improving the Quality of Teaching Art by Mohammed Al-Amri.
• Implementation of Strategies for a Comprehensive Communication Model between Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Art and Society by Ana Garcia-Lopez and Belén Mazuecos.
• Composition Clarified by James Hrkach.
• Pedagogy of Voice in Landscapes of Daily Living with Autism by Lorna Ramsay.
• The Algorithms of Distance: Metaphors in Pictorial Language by Barnaby Fitzgerald.
• Music Education and the Construction of Musical Knowledge in Spain and Brazil by Alberto Cabedo Mas and Flávia Motoyama Narita.

• The Inclusion of the Visually Impaired In Film Experience by Jacob Udayi Agba and James E. Olayi.
• Fostering an Entrepreneurial Capacity among Creative Industries Students in Higher Education by Adrian Margey.
• Dance in the Weave of the City: A Proposal for Five Case Studies by Dagmar Simon, Ralph Buck and Jennifer Hand.
• An Analysis of Javanese Influences on Malaysian Motifs in Batik Sarong Design by Rafeah Legino and David Forrest.
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Emerging Readers Draw Their Reading by Lauren McCann.
• Embedding “Design Thinking” in Business School Curriculum by Ward Eagen, Kristen Aspevig, Wendy Cukier, Robert Bauer and Ojelanki Ngwenyama.
• Describing Music: Perception and Metaphor by Tiago Videira.
• Sociological Causation of Worth Distinction in Contemporary Visual Arts by Zahra Rahbarnia and Samineh Ansari.
• Cyberformance and the Cyberstage by Christina Papagiannouli.
• Destruction of Monuments in Europe: Reasons and Consequences by Rozmeri Basic.
• The Nobrow Aesthetics: The Relative Arts Era by Janaína Quintas Antunes.
• Overcoming the Heisenberg Principle: Art Theory Arising out of Wolfgang Pauli’s Collapsed Wave by Lisa Paul Streitfeld.

Creating a Better Place to Live: The Argument for Craft Education

Where would we be without the movements that corroborate our feelings and desires and make a practical difference in our lives? In a timely fashion, this book challenges our understanding of craft activity. Creating a Better Place to Live: The Argument for Craft Education reads as a social critique that champions the culture and relevance of this practice in a refreshing way. A redefined account of craft activity is given, while different positions are postulated as to its role. This book asserts that the teaching, professional practice, and policy making of craft activity needs to change in order to benefit society in a more constructive manner. Far from being just an adjunct to production requirements and a slave to economic conceptions of life, the theory, history, and contemporary practice of craft activity can be utilized considerately to create a better environment for us all. The delights, hard hitting conceptions, foibles, and intelligence of craft work are debated. This discourse argues that craft activity is vital for living well and is a voice of freedom, common observation, collective effort, and reason that can affect our social cohesion, sympathetic unity, independence, and passions in life.

Dr Howard Cannatella is a teacher and philosopher in art education and a practising artist and designer. He lives in British Columbia, Canada with his wife Kirsten and their three children

• The Ottoman Clothing Heritage: The Contribution of Turkish Designers and the Natural Dye Research & Development Laboratory (DATU) by Dilek Cukul.
• Constructing Worlds F4: An Artist Collective Considered by Susan E. Jowsey.
• An Art for Every Day by Alexandre A. Avdulov.
• The English Cathedral: Architecture as Visual Persuasion by James Donald Ragsdale.
• Arte(Cá), an International Artist Residencies Program in Higher Education: The Importance of Place in the Global Concept of Art and Nature by Aldo Passarinho, Ana Velhinho, Cristina Pires dos Santos, Marco Silva, Patrícia Reis, Tiago Nunes and Viviane Silva.
• l’ Avanguardia Cattolica: The Forgotten Church of Futurism by Justine Grace.
• Fireworks: “21st Century Aesthetics, Exploding Culture and Massive Diversification in Public Arts” by Dan Eastmond.
• A Dance Teacher’s Dialogue on Working within Disabled/Non-Disabled Engagement in Dance by Sue Cheesman.

Recently published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society include:

• Aesthetics of Craft Production: With Reference to the Culture Industry Proposal by UNESCO in the Context of India by Ravi Shankar Mishra.
• Public Art Discourse: A Case Study of Gateshead, England by Maeve Blackman.
• Scenario Art as a Decision-making Tool to Facilitate Sustainable Futures: The Case for Minerals and Mining in Australia by Aleta Lederwasch.
• Learning Drawing with Math: A Scientific Approach by Wei Xu.
• The Role of Marketing to Cultural Sponsorship: A Case Study “Chiado’s Theatre Company” by Inês Isabel Oliveira Ramos Rebelo Morais.
• Transforming Preschool Teachers’ Practice and Understanding of Early Art viewing: Ideas from an Experimental Art Museum-based Professional Development Workshop by Rajka Bra?un Sova.
• New Media Arts and Human–Computer Interaction: Forming Aesthetic Interaction by Hsiu Ching Hsieh.
• The Unity of Art and Life: The Synthesis Concept of Fluxus and Zen by Youjin Chung.

• Margaret Louise Dobson - Poetic Inquiry: A Way of Finding Out by Finding In (to be published in an upcoming issue)
• W.F. Garrett-Petts and Rachel Nash - Making Interdisciplinary Inquiry Visible: The Role of Artist-Researchers in a Ten-Year Community-University Research Alliance (to be published in an upcoming issue)
• Justine Grace - l’ Avanguardia Cattolica: The Forgotten Church of Futurism
• Herman Jiesamfoek - Indigenous Non-Western Arts, Cultural Identity and Social Cohesion in New Social Settings (to be published in an upcoming issue)
• Susan E. Jowsey - Constructing Worlds F4: An Artist Collective Considered
• Aleta Lederwasch - Scenario Art as a Decision-making Tool to Facilitate Sustainable Futures: The Case for Minerals and Mining in Australia
• Adrian Margey - Fostering an Entrepreneurial Capacity among Creative Industries Students in Higher Education
• Barbara Sellers-Young - Arts, Artistic Process and the Community
• Seth Thompson - Reclaiming Histories and the Virtual Museum: A Proposal to Preserve Al Jazeera Al Hamra

Volume 6, Issue 3 contains:

• Bio Art + Body Art = Inner-Body Art: (With a Typology of Biotechnological Art) by François-Joseph Lapointe.
• Ways of Seeing the School: The Production of Subjectivities within Educational Spaces by Catarina Sofia Martins, Inês Miguel, Catarina Almeida and Paulo Fernandes.
• Relational Art as Social Semiotic by Howard Riley.
• Towards a New-Gesamt-Gesamtkunstwerke: Artistic Experiments and the Engineering of Social Consciousness by Paulo Maria Rodrigues and Helena Rodrigues.
• Typography as a Form of Cultural Representation by Hakan Ertep.
• Researching Kapa Haka and its Educational Meanings in Today’s Aotearoa/New Zealand: Weaving Methodologies, Perspectives and Decency by Hiromi Sakamoto.
• Australian Portraiture: Naturalistic and Imagined by Amy Elizabeth Jackett.
• Too Perfect to be Natural: Digital Art and the Quest for Perfection by Kevin Todd.
• Technical and Esthetic Association in Zehra Cobanli’s Ceramics by Dilek Alkan Ozdemir.

• Aesthetics of Craft Production: With Reference to the Culture Industry Proposal by UNESCO in the Context of India by Ravi Shankar Mishra.
• Public Art Discourse: A Case Study of Gateshead, England by Maeve Blackman.
• Scenario Art as a Decision-making Tool to Facilitate Sustainable Futures: The Case for Minerals and Mining in Australia by Aleta Lederwasch.
• Learning Drawing with Math: A Scientific Approach by Wei Xu.
• The Role of Marketing to Cultural Sponsorship: A Case Study “Chiado’s Theatre Company” by Inês Isabel Oliveira Ramos Rebelo Morais.
• Transforming Preschool Teachers’ Practice and Understanding of Early Art viewing: Ideas from an Experimental Art Museum-based Professional Development Workshop by Rajka Bra?un Sova.
• New Media Arts and Human–Computer Interaction: Forming Aesthetic Interaction by Hsiu Ching Hsieh.
• The Unity of Art and Life: The Synthesis Concept of Fluxus and Zen by Youjin Chung.
• The Ottoman Clothing Heritage: The Contribution of Turkish Designers and the Natural Dye Research & Development Laboratory (DATU) by Dilek Cukul.
• Constructing Worlds F4: An Artist Collective Considered by Susan E. Jowsey.
• An Art for Every Day by Alexandre A. Avdulov.
• The English Cathedral: Architecture as Visual Persuasion by James Donald Ragsdale.
• Arte(Cá), an International Artist Residencies Program in Higher Education: The Importance of Place in the Global Concept of Art and Nature by Aldo Passarinho, Ana Velhinho, Cristina Pires dos Santos, Marco Silva, Patrícia Reis, Tiago Nunes and Viviane Silva.
• l’ Avanguardia Cattolica: The Forgotten Church of Futurism by Justine Grace.
• Fireworks: “21st Century Aesthetics, Exploding Culture and Massive Diversification in Public Arts” by Dan Eastmond.
• A Dance Teacher’s Dialogue on Working within Disabled/Non-Disabled Engagement in Dance by Sue Cheesman.

Creating a Better Place to Live: The Argument for Craft Education by Howard Cannatella is now available as part of  The Arts in Society series.

Where would we be without the movements that corroborate our feelings and desires and make a practical difference in our lives? In a timely fashion, this book challenges our understanding of craft activity. Creating a Better Place to Live: The Argument for Craft Education reads as a social critique that champions the culture and relevance of this practice in a refreshing way. A redefined account of craft activity is given, while different positions are postulated as to its role. This book asserts that the teaching, professional practice, and policy making of craft activity needs to change in order to benefit society in a more constructive manner. Far from being just an adjunct to production requirements and a slave to economic conceptions of life, the theory, history, and contemporary practice of craft activity can be utilized considerately to create a better environment for us all. The delights, hard hitting conceptions, foibles, and intelligence of craft work are debated. This discourse argues that craft activity is vital for living well and is a voice of freedom, common observation, collective effort, and reason that can affect our social cohesion, sympathetic unity, independence, and passions in life.

Dr Howard Cannatella is a teacher and philosopher in art education and a practising artist and designer. He lives in British Columbia, Canada with his wife Kirsten and their three children

• Communal Bodies by Rosemary Lee.
• ‘Performances of Power’: A New Project on Aboriginal Performance in Australia by Anna Haebich.
• Demystifying Adolphe Appia: Understanding the Influences on Modern Stage Design by Pete Reader.
• An Essay on the Semantic Analysis of Reception Aesthetics in the Ceramic Works by J. Miro by Ay?e Güler.
• Breathing Space for Experience by Nancy de Freitas.
• Emergent Interdisciplinary Art Curriculum: A Constructivist Approach by Cynthia Bickley-Green.
• Acquiring Negative Capability: A Psychosocial Exploration of the Role of Art Teachers in Fostering Student Creativity by Jean Carabine.
• ArtShots–Art and Multimedia Communication Labs: Framing Strategies and Platforms for Crossing Experiences in Teaching and Learning by Aldo Passarinho, Ana Velhinho, Cristina Pires dos Santos, Marco Silva, Patrícia Reis, Tiago Nunes and Viviane Silva.
• Art as Socio-political Voice: Feminist and Graffiti Art by Quynh Nguyen.
• Set for Success: An Exploration of the Development of Musical Expertise in Early Childhood by Judith Fromyhr.