Educator Speaker Series: Decentering Whiteness in Art Education with Alisha Mernick

Decentering whiteness in our classrooms requires much more than teaching “diverse art.” In this workshop, you will learn how to explicitly name and disrupt the erasure and tokenization of BIPOC artists in traditional, eurocentric pedagogies and adopt best practices for fostering cultural pluralism and critical consciousness.

Alisha Mernick is a Visual Art and Social Justice Educator based in Los Angeles, CA. She holds her MA in Art Education from NYU, and has been implementing liberatory, critical arts pedagogy in K–12 classrooms for over a decade. She specializes in using art making to engage students in a critical analysis of issues of identity, social justice, anti-racism, and civic engagement.