Associate Professor
(Affiliate)
Research Interests
- Histories of Art Education
- Educational Change
- International Art Education
- Sites and Space of Art Education
- Museum Education Research
- Community Art Education and Non-Formal Learning
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) in Art Education
- Disability and Life-Long Learning in Art Education
- Artificial Intelligence, Technology, New Media, and Art Education
- Arts-based Research – Methodologies and Methods
- Curriculum Studies and Pedagogy
- Environmental Art Education
- Visual and Material Culture
- Ways of Knowing
- Public Art
Biography
Associate Professor, Art Education
- Concordia University, 2015, PhD, Art Education
- York University, 2010, MEd, Curriculum Studies (Art Education)
- University of Toronto (OISE), 2004, BEd, (Visual Arts and Social Science)
- University of Toronto, 2003, Honors BA, (Ethics, Society, & Law – Visual Studies)
Dustin Garnet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Prior to his position at UBC, Dustin was a specialised high school art instructor, community art educator, and an Assistant Professor of Art Education at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). He attended the University of Toronto to earn his HBA and teaching credentials at OISE. His graduate work began at York University, where he earned his MEd in Curriculum studies focusing on art education. Dustin’s SSHRC-funded doctoral work earned the 2016 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education (National Art Education Association), the 2016 Doctoral Research Award in Art Education (Canadian Society for Education through Art), and was the Runner-up/Finalist for the 2016 Arts-based Dissertation Award, ABER SIG (American Educational Research Association). He was also recognised as the 2015 Valedictorian at Concordia University.
Dustin presents and publishes both nationally and internationally on research that intersects historical methods, cultural studies, international and marginalized histories, material culture, and EDID issues. His recent publications include the co-edited book Living Histories: Global Conversations in Art Education (2022) and the guest-edited special issue Inflection Points in/through Art Education: Conversations Today and a Look to the Future (2022), published in the journal Visual Inquiry.
Service is foundational to Dustin’s scholarship. He serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Education through Art (IJETA) and as a manuscript reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals both nationally and internationally. Dustin was the President of the California Art Education Association and the creator of the NAEA History and Historiography in Art Education interest group (HHAE). In his role as Assistant Professor of Art Education at CSULA, he developed and coordinated the Community Teaching Artist Certificate program (CTA) in collaboration with the College of Professional and Global Education and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Currently, Dustin is the Pacific Region Director of the Higher Education Division for the National Art Education Association and Co-Chair of HHAE.
Presentations
Single-Author Paper Presentations
Garnet, D. (2024, June 30). Preparing for the Job Market: Questions and Mentorship [Invited Presenter, International]. Global Taiwanese Art Education Scholar Community, Online.
Garnet, D. (2022, October). Oldenburg’s influence on the street and politics of taste. SECAC, Baltimore, USA.
Garnet, D. (2021, November). Conversations in art education today and a look to the future. California Art Education Association, California, USA.
Garnet, D. (2019, November). Narrative forms: Diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs. California Art Education Association, California, USA.
Garnet, D. (2019, July). Entanglements and trajectories: New histories of transnational art education International Society of Education through Art World Congress, Vancouver, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2019, March). Data visualization working group: organizational vibrancy [Invited Presenter, International]. National Art Education Association, Boston, USA.
Garnet, D. (2019, April). Artful renderings: Historying and art education. American Education and ResearchAssociation, Toronto, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2018, November 17). I was a teacher: Doris McCarthy. Reframing Doris McCarthy [Invited Presenter, Local]. Doris McCarthy Gallery University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2018, March). Everything old is new again: STEAM and the cyclical pattern of art education History. National Art Education Association, New York, USA.
Garnet, D. (2017, May). Writing new histories of Canadian art education. Canadian Society for the Study of Education. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2017, March). Historying and new histories of art education. National Art Education Association, New York, USA.
Garnet, D. (2016, October). New histories of Canadian art education. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Victoria, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2016, April). Legacy and tradition: The Central Technical School art department, 1892-2014. AmericanEducation and Research Association, Washington, USA.
Garnet, D. (2016, March). A storied history of art education: The art department at Central Technical School 1892-2014. Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education [Invited Presenter, International]. NationalArt Education Association, Chicago, USA.
Garnet, D. (2016, March). Insights from Alice: Artistic community in the 1960s at Central Technical School. National ArtEducation Association, Chicago, USA.
Garnet, D. (2016, March). A Canadian Bauhaus: The Art Centre. National Art Education Association, Chicago, USA.
Garnet, D. (2015, March). Stories of Central Technical School: A new history in art education. [Invited Presenter, International]. National Art Education Association. Seminar for Research in Art Education- Graduate Research SessionMarilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers. New Orleans, USA.
Garnet, D. (2015, March). Reviving art education history: The polyptych methodology. National Art EducationAssociation, New Orleans, USA.
Garnet, D. (2014, October). Relationships and history: Stories from my friend Sue Shintani. Canadian Society forEducation through Art, Halifax, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2014, October). Refiguring history: Alice’s experience in the art department. Canadian Society forEducation through Art, Halifax, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2014, May). Arts-Based historical methodology: Polyptych construction to refigure the history of arteducation. Canadian Society for the Study of Education. Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2014, April). Sue Shintani: A story from the history of the Central Technical School art program. The International Society for Educational Biography, Toronto, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2014, April). Polyptych construction as historical methodology: An intertextual approach to the stories ofCentral Technical School’s past. American Education and Research Association, Philadelphia, USA.
Garnet, D. (2013, May). Unknown and hidden: Canada’s largest education archive and collection. American Education and Research Association, San Francisco, USA.
Garnet, D. (2012, October). Adding to the history of Canadian art education. Canadian Society for Education throughArt, Edmonton, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2012, October). Artsjunktion: A thirty-year experiment in community material culture Recycling. CanadianSociety for Education through Art, Edmonton, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2012, May). Art education in Canada: The forgotten history of Central Technical School / L’éducationartistique au Canada: l’histoire oubliée de la Central Technical School. Canadian Society for the Study ofEducation, Waterloo, Canada.
Garnet, D. (2012, March). Diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs: Applications in a high school art classroom. National ArtEducation Association, New York, USA.
Garnet, D. (2011, October). Creating artistic community: Forming an art collective of past and present fine art students.Canadian Society for Education through Art, Fredericton, Canada. Refereed Conference.
Collaborative Papers Presentations
Garnet, D., Slivka, K., Staikidis, K., Eldridge, L., Willis, S., & Santos, L. (April, 2024). Acknowledging Indigenous histories in art education [Symposium presentation]. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Garnet, D., Stankiewicz, M. A., Hampton G., Lawton, P., Bailey, I., & Coleman, A. (April, 2024). The art of oral histories: Drawing connections and telling diverse stories in art education. [Symposium presentation]. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Garnet, D., Stankiewicz, M. A., Rodriguez, F., Bailey, I., Hanawalt, C., Uhlig, S., & Hicks, V. (April, 2024). Mapping a legacy of teaching, pedagogy, and mentorship [Symposium presentation]. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Garnet, D., Lawton, P., Cross, L., Brown, K., Bailey, I., & Rodriguez, F. (April, 2023). Teaching diverse histories today [Symposium presentation]. National Art Education Association, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Garnet, D. Bolin, P., Rodriguez, F., Kantawala, A., & Hardy, D. (April, 2023). Writing art education hi(stories) today[Symposium presentation]. National Art Education Association, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Burton, D., Garnet, D., & Bailey, I. (April, 2023). HHAE Initiatives Working Group 2023-2025. National Art EducationAssociation, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Bolin, P., & Garnet, D. (April, 2023). HHAE inaugural event: Building connections and generating ideas. National ArtEducation Association, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Tervo, J., & Garnet, D. (April, 2023). Tensions in the archive: Stories and speculations across borders [Paper presentation]. National Art Education Association, San Antonio, USA.
Hanawalt, C., Garnet, D., & Stokes-Casey, J. (April, 2023). Activism across time and place in art education histories[Paper presentation]. National Art Education Association, San Antonio, USA.
Garnet, D. (March, 2022). Opening conversations: Research in art education today and a look to the future [Paper presentation]. Guest Presenters: Flavia Bastos, Kathy Brown, Yichien Cooper, Lauren Cross, Rita Irwin, Nadine M. Kalin, Michelle Kamhi, Wanda B. Knight, Pamela Lawton, Rina Kundu Little, Jorge Lucero, Christine Ballengee Morris, David Pariser, James H. Sanders, Manisha Sharma, Ryan Shin, Richard Siegesmund, Anita Sinner, Mary Ann Stankiewicz. National Art Education Association, New York, USA.
Garnet, D., Sinner, A., Alicea, G., Beaulieu, A., Daichendt, J., Kwon, H., Rodriguez, F., Tervo, J., Vargas, S., & Vella, R. (March, 2022). Living histories: Global conversations in art education [Paper presentation]. National Art Education Association, New York, USA.
Kwon, H. Garnet, D., & Rodriguez, F. (March, 2022). New histories: International and postcolonial perspectives on Armenian, Dominican, Korean, and Canadian art and education [Paper presentation]. National Art EducationAssociation, New York, USA.
Garnet, D., Sinner, A., Irwin, R. Smith, J., Chalmers, G., & Ballengee-Morris, C. (2019, July). A legacy of art, culture, and pedagogy: Revisiting the work of Graeme Chalmers [Symposium presentation]. International Society of Education through Art World Congress, Vancouver, Canada.
Dennis, J., & Garnet, D. (2019, May). In pursuit of a more engaged campus: Using civic engagement assessment to inform curriculum and policy [Paper presentation]. California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.
Garnet, D., Sinner, A., & White, B. (2016, April). Curricular interruptions: Innovative approaches to visual art and performative praxis in art education [Symposium presentation]. American Education and Research Association, Washington, USA.
Garnet, D., & Pearse, H. (2015, November). More than a dualism: Applied and fine art education in Ontario [Paper presentation]. Brushes with History Conference, Columbia University Teachers Collage. New York, USA.
Garnet, D., Hasebe-Ludt, E., Leggo, C., McKerracher, A., Mesner, K., Sameshima, P. & Sinner, A. (2014, May). Life writing: Creative and curricular possibilities for inspiriting education [Symposium presentation]. Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Conference, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
Garnet, D., Kantawala, A., & Sinner, A. (2014, April). Storying innovative practices: International perspectives on archives and schools [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association (Symposium), Philadelphia, USA.
Hasebe-Ludt, E., McKerracher, M., Leggo, C., Mesner, K., Sinner, A., & Garnet, D. (2013, June). Enhancing education: Material culture, visual media and the aesthetics of teachers’ lives [Paper presentation]. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Victoria, Canada.
Levesque, M., Garnet, D., Sinner, A., Szabad-Smyth, L., Vaughan, K., & Fitch, S. (2013, May). Reviewing an archive of practice: The historical unfolding of community art education. [Roundtable presentation]. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, USA.
Garnet, D., Sinner, A., Szabad-Smyth, L., Levesque, M., Vaughan, K., Fitch, S. (2012, October). Community art education: An historical overview of practice [Paper presentation]. Canadian Society for Education through Art, Edmonton, Canada.
Szabad-Smyth, L., Vaughan, K., Garnet, D., Levesque, M., Fitch, S., & Sinner, A. (2012, May). Investigating innovative teaching in Canada: Community art education at Concordia [Paper presentation]. Visual Art Education Research Colloquium. Montreal, Canada.
Selected Publications
Books (Edited)
Chapters
Garnet, D. (2023). The creation of a community teaching artist certificate program: Professionalization in the gig economy. In A. Sinner, C-C. Lin, & R. L. Irwin (Eds.). Community Arts Education: Transversal Global Perspectives (pp. 284–294). Intellect.
Garnet, D., & Sinner, A. (2019). The story-object. In P. Sameshima, A. Sinner, & B. White, MA: Materiality in Teaching and Learning (pp. 51–61). Peter Lang Publishing.
McKerracher, A., Sinner, A., Hasebe-Ludt, E., Mesner, K., Garnet, D., & Leggo, C. (2017). Enhancing education: Material culture, visual media, and the aesthetics of teachers’lives. Creative practices in curriculum and teaching in the 21st century. In J. Cummings & M. Blatherwick (Eds.), (pp. 107–115). Sense Publishers.
Editorships
Garnet, D. (2021). Inflection points in/through Art Education: Conversations today and a look to the future [Special Issue Guest Editor]. Visual Inquiry, 10(2).
Refereed Journal Articles, Single-Author
Garnet, D. (2023). Diverted flight path: The California Art Education Association’s progress toward sustainable runways. [Special issue: Antiracist Strategies and Interventions], Studies in Art Education, 64(2), 234–250.
Garnet, D. (2020). Historying tragedy through an object of empathy: Hon Xuan’s Violin. The International Journal of Art and Design Education, 39(3), 648–662.
Garnet, D. (2017). The polyptych methodology and new histories in art education: Charting a legacy of stories from Central Technical School, 1896-2014. Visual Arts Research, 43(2), 58–73.
Garnet, D. (2017). Expanding avenues in art education: Engaging the curatorial. Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art [Special issue: Curating as a condition of art education], 6(1), 67–82.
Garnet, D. (2017). Historying the past: Revisiting new histories in art education. Studies in Art Education [Special issue: Histories and Historical Research in Visual Arts Education], 58(1), 39–50.
Garnet, D. (2016). Alice Saltiel-Marshall: A student voice in the history of the Art Department at Central TechnicalSchool, 1962-1966. Studies in Art Education, 57(2), 149–164.
Garnet, D. (2016). Affinity and interpretation in oral histories of art education. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 40(4), 389–402. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2016.1139081
Garnet, D. (2015). Zema and Peter Haworth: A double-jointed biography from the history of art education. The International Journal of Education Through Art, 11(2), 277–297.
Garnet, D. (2014). Polyptych construction as historical methodology: An intertextual approach to the stories of Central Technical School’s past. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(9), 955–969. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2014.933911
Garnet, D. (2014). Recycling material culture: Environmentalism, free art supplies and the Artsjunktion. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 15(2), 1–17.
Garnet, D. (2012). Art education theory and practical experience: My journey as an art educator and amateur theorist. Teaching Artist Journal,10(4), 222–228.
Garnet, D. (2012). Unknown and hidden: The Toronto District School Board education archive. The Canadian Review of Art Education, 39, 48–63.
Garnet, D. (2012). Conductive transmission. Visual Arts Research, 38(2), 69–71.
Refereed Journal Articles, Collaborative
Garnet, D., Sinner, A., Yi, S. Walker, C., and Esmat, R. (2018). Learning in the third age through community art education: Drawing wisdom through personal experience. International Journal of Life Long Education, 37(3), 283–296. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2018.1450304
Vaughan, K., Levesque, M., Szabad-Smyth, L., Garnet, D., Fitch, S., & Sinner, A. (2017). A history of community art education at Concordia University: Educating the artist-teacher through practice and collaboration. Studies in Art Education [Special issue: Histories and Historical Research in Visual Arts Education], 58(1), 28–38.
Sinner, A., Levesque, M., Vaughan, K., Szabad-Smyth, L., Garnet, D., & Fitch, S. (2013). Reviewing an archive of practice: The historical unfolding of community art education. Canadian Review of Art Education, 39, 24–47.