Rébecca Bourgault
Assistant Professor of Art, Art Education; Chair of Art Education
Rébecca Bourgault, MFA, EdD, is an assistant professor of art education at the College of Fine Arts. Her work as an artist, scholar, and educator focuses on an expanded view of art and education, encompassing lifelong learning in communities, socially engaged art practices, and approaches to arts research that explore transdisciplinary and holistic ways of knowing. Her sculpture installation and drawings have been exhibited in galleries across Canada and the US.
Elected at the North American World Council of the International Society for Education through Arts (InSEA) for 2022-2023, Dr. Bourgault is an associate editor for IJETA, InSEA’s flagship journal. She served on InSEA Publication’s Board and is an active member, reviewer, and juror for AERA, UAAC, and NAEA.
Dr. Bourgault has presented her research and organized panels on topics of art and aging, socially engaged art, and art-based research at national and international art and art education conferences in Turkey, Peru, Croatia, Canada, and the United States. 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 International Journal of Education & the Arts, 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.
Current endeavors focus on art research and holistic pedagogy, co-editing a book on contemporary experiments in arts research and a second co-edited book on creativity and lifelong art practices.
