吃瓜网

• Art Education
• Studio practices
• Painting
• Arts-based research
• Artistic inquiry
• Elementary Teacher Education
• Artist Residencies

• Artistic processes and studio thinking through interviews with Contemporary Canadian artists
• Painting as a way of thinking and learning
• Arts-based research and the development of ways of performing and disseminating arts-based research through interactive exhibitions
• Artistic inquiry within the elementary school classroom and with teacher candidates

I am currently engaged in several research-creation projects related to local marine ecologies, water and painting processes. These themes were explored on several recent artist residences, including at Friday Harbor Laboratories and the Arctic Circle. I have examined painting processes and the impact of artist residencies through several recent and upcoming articles and book chapters.

Shields, A. (2023). Out of the blue: A pedagogy of longing. In A. Lasczik, A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Rousell, D., (Eds.), Walking as critical inquiry (pp. 45-58). Springer.

Shields, A. (2023). Studio as collage: Familiar and strange. Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal.

Shields, A. (2022). Studio as Liminal Space. In A. Harris, M.E. Luka & A. Markham, (Eds.), Massive/Micro Autoethnography - Creative learning in COVID times. Springer.

Shields, A., Cloutier, G., Fursman, J., Lara-Osuna, R., Castillo Inostroza, J., Arias-Camisón, A., Do, L., Gajdošíková, P., Gillard, Y., Hegeman, K., Jamouchi, S., Klungland, M., Kukkonen, T., Lee, N., Peck, S., Schwember, F., Wicks, J., Wright, E., Wurtzel, K. (2022). Inhabiting/Living Practice: An emergent collaborative arts-based exhibition. In M. Carter, H. Mreiwed, S. Hashem & C. Blake-Amarante (Ed.) Looking back to look forward: Making Connections in and through Arts-based Educational Research.

Shields, A., Percy, I. & Vander Meer-Chasse, T. (2021). Making time and space for art: An examination of artist-in-residence within a postsecondary Art Education program. Canadian Review of Art Education, 48(1), 73-99.

Shields, A. & Phinney, A. (2020). The passage of a painting: The learning process of students creating art for people with dementia. International Journal of Education through Art, 16(2), 209-225.

Shields, A. (2020). The evolution of a never-ending paintings. Canadian Art Teacher, 17(1).

Shields, A. & Irwin, R. (2020). Turning to the Art of Research in Visual Arts Education Doctoral Studies. In B. Andrews (Ed.), Perspectives on arts education research in Canada, Vol. II: Issues and directions. Koninklijke Brill NV.

Shields, A. (2019). The generosity of time spent making and learning with others through artistic research. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 45(1), 659-669.

Shields, A. (2018). Studio conversations. International Journal of Education through Art, 14(3), 379-385.

Shields, A. & Irwin, R. (In Press). Qualities of art making in arts-based educational research dissertations. In R. Irwin, J. Adams & A. Sinner (Eds.). International perspectives on visual arts PhD’s in Education: Provoking the field. 

Shields, A. (2017). 142 studio visits: The emergence of creative thinking through studio conversations. Synnt/Origin: Finnish Studies in Art Education: Rethinking arts-based & artistic research – and global/local communities. Retrieved from https://wiki.aalto.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=120486591

Shields, A. & Emme, M. (Eds.) (2016). Emergent Art Education in Canada. Canadian Society for Education through the Arts.

Abstract, John B. Aird Gallery, Online, 2023 

Studio as Collage, ArcHive Gallery, Victoria, BC, 2022

Studio as Portal, McClure Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2020

Three Miles an Hour, Strondin Studio and Skaftfell Art Center, Seyoisfijour, Iceland, 2019 

Studio Conversations in Art Education, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, 2019

From Mittens to Barbies: Provoking International perspectives on visual arts doctoral research, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2018

Salt Spring Island National Art Prize, Finalist, Salt Spring Island, BC, 2017

Studio Conversations, Quest University Gallery, Squamish, BC, 2016

Off Course, Viridian Gallery, Vancouver BC, 2016