Challenges and possibilities for an intercultural visual arts education

The project responds to the increasingly diverse cultural context of Chile, postcolonial inequalities, and the conflicts that this generates in an educational system that privileges European epistemologies. To address these tensions, the project explores the challenges and possibilities for the implementation of intercultural principles in visual arts education, since both the arts and intercultural pedagogy have the potential to destabilize current hegemonies. The project investigates how a group of high school visual arts teachers from municipal and/or subsidized schools in different Chilean territories, with significant populations of indigenous and/or immigrant students, understand and implement principles of interculturality. In addition, the study explores to what extent students' creative processes reflect their culture and identity, and the ability of teachers to respond to such diversity. Through an a/r/tographic methodology, the study includes the analysis of national policies, focus groups with teachers, classroom observations, photographic documentation and the creation of collages with the participants. Since there is little research on the potential of intercultural education in the visual arts in Chile, the project will help inform future teacher training in this area in a global context where most information is transmitted visually.