COHDScast Season #2 Episode #5 - Kathleen Vaughan

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Dr. Kathleen Vaughan is Co-Director and Core Member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and Associate Professor in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University. She is also Concordia University Research Chair in Socially Engaged Art and Public Pedagogies. Kathleen Vaughan is a visual artist, writer, scholar, and educator whose work reflects a trans-disciplinary orientation to questions of place and belonging and the theme of ‘home’. She aims to balance her love for post-industrial sites, urban forests and green spaces with critical engagement, and often uses walking and mapping as method and form. Kathleen uses textile practices, painting, drawing, photography, installation, audio and video. Her work comprises multiple approaches, studio-based, collaborative/participatory and community-based. Active within her Montreal neighbourhood of Pointe-St-Charles, Kathleen has worked with seniors and children in social housing, schools and community agencies. She has also developed creative projects with children, adults and seniors in Toronto, Iceland, Latvia and the Netherlands, oriented to cultivating knowledge and awareness of ‘place’ and building community. At Concordia and with colleagues Steven High and Cynthia Hammond, Kathleen is part of the Right to the City teaching initiative, which encourages students to discover how learning with the city, and across disciplines, can enrich education while giving back to the community at large. Learn more about Kathleen's work: http://www.akaredhanded.com/ http://explore.concordia.ca/kathleen-vaughan