Transcending Boundaries
Research Artivism goes beyond the confines of traditional academic texts to communicate research insights in unconventional, imaginative, and dynamic ways.
Amplifying Voices
Research Artivism aims to amplify the voices and experiences of marginalized communities, often using counterstories and multimedia representations to tell untold narratives.
Enhancing Accessibility
Research Artivism makes scholarly research more accessible to a broader audience, including learners, by presenting information in visually engaging and relatable formats.
Inspiring Innovation
Research Artivism serves as a pedagogical tool for educators interested in promoting racially just practices in both formal and informal educational spaces.
Empowering Community
Research Artivism pays tribute to and honors the experiences and communities that research artivists engage with, recognizing the transformative potential of everyday practices within these communities.
Transcending Boundaries
Research Artivism goes beyond the confines of traditional academic texts to communicate research insights in unconventional, imaginative, and dynamic ways.
Amplifying Voices
Research Artivism aims to amplify the voices and experiences of marginalized communities, often using counterstories and multimedia representations to tell untold narratives.
Enhancing Accessibility
Research Artivism makes scholarly research more accessible to a broader audience, including learners, by presenting information in visually engaging and relatable formats.
Inspiring Innovation
Research Artivism serves as a pedagogical tool for educators interested in promoting racially just practices in both formal and informal educational spaces.
Empowering Community
Research Artivism pays tribute to and honors the experiences and communities that research artivists engage with, recognizing the transformative potential of everyday practices within these communities.

What is Research Artivism?

What is Research Artivism?

Research Artivism refers to a mode of scholarly engagement and activism that combines research with artistic expression, particularly in the form of sequential art. This approach seeks to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and wider public engagement by using multimodal modes of communication (e.g. images, gestures, music, movement, language) and other artistic mediums to convey complex research findings and critical perspectives.

Developed by Josephine H. Pham and collaborating creators, “Mai Research Artivism” offers pedagogical resources in the form of comics to explore the lived practices of K-12 teachers of Color working towards liberatory education.

With the intentions of reimagining how knowledge is created, produced, represented, and disseminated in the academy, Mai Pedagogy Project also includes “Featured Research Artivists” who are invited to communicate their scholarship related to racial justice teaching and learning through creative expression.

  • Mai Research Artivism

  • Featured Artivists

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