At Home At School: Critical Arts-Based Research as Public Pedagogy

This article demonstrates the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic. It emerges from a mural-making project that exists in the confluence of critical arts-based research and emancipatory and transformative educational practices. Critical arts-based inquiry is a methodology for ethical research that is futuristic, socially responsible, and useful in addressing social inequities. The critical arts-based research that is demonstrated here was constructed to be deliberately transformative of repressive social structures, and to inspire its participants and its audiences to both, reflection and ethical, political action.