
Rébecca Bourgault
Associate Professor of Art, Art Education; Chair of Art Education
Rébecca Bourgault, MFA, EdD, is an associate professor and chair of Art Education. Her research includes an expanded view of art education, encompassing lifelong becoming, socially engaged art practices, and approaches to arts research that explore transdisciplinary, translingual, and holistic ways of knowing. Recent work includes a co-edited volume on contemporary arts research (2024, Brill/Sense) and a collection of life stories about arts and aging (2024, Routledge, NAEA). Her research has been included in edited volumes such as Sustaining Community: Stories of Adaptation and Re-emergence (2024), Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education (2023), Art as an Agent of Social Change (2020), and Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Art and Design (2019). Recent articles appeared in the Journal of Transformative Education, the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education, and Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal.
Elected to the North American World Council for the International Society for Education through Arts (InSEA) for 2022-2023, she is an associate editor for the International Journal of Education Through Art and an active member, contributor, reviewer, and juror for art education organizations.