Natasha Reid

Natasha S. Reid (she/her/elle) is Assistant Professor of Art Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria. She holds a Ph.D. in Art Education from Concordia University and conducted Quebec-funded postdoctoral research into the oral histories of contemporary art museum educators of the Global Majority (Université du Québec à Montréal and New York University). She was Executive Director of the Visual Arts Centre in Montreal (2017-2021) and Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona (2013-2016). Using narrative research, Critical Race Theory, and arts-based practices, she investigates and activates art spaces, contemporary art, and public pedagogical sites as locations for anti-racist and anti-oppressive education. This work often incorporates investigations into cultural identity, memory, and socially engaged practices. Recently, as a Co-Investigator on “IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus”, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded project (Principal Investigator and Project Director, Shaheen Shariff), Natasha and her collaborator, Caroline Boileau, used artistic research to explore consent-based culture and relational aesthetics in gallery settings. She is the Principal Investigator on a SSHRC-funded research project entitled “Artistic approaches to anti-racism and anti-oppression: Artists and university students engaging in transformative action in a campus gallery”. Her research is published in a variety of journals and books, and she regularly presents at conferences. Currently, she serves on the review board for the Art Education Journal and conducts reviews for various other publications. For more information about Natasha’s work, please visit www.natashareid.ca

Using narrative research and arts-based practices, I investigate and activate art spaces and public pedagogical sites as locations for examining power dynamics and engaging with difficult knowledge. I am interested in questioning and disrupting traditional power relations within and through art and art education. This includes work with social justice, anti-racism, and anti-oppression in my art practice, university teaching, and work in museum, gallery, and other community settings. My multidisciplinary practice regularly involves socially engaged, community-based, and participatory artistic approaches.