Brandon Bauer

I’ve had several art & democracy and creative civic engagement scholarship milestones over the past few months, and I wanted to share a few highlights:

Faculty Fellowship

I was selected to participate in the Clemson University Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars Program. This cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary faculty learning community focuses on developing humanities and arts-based pedagogical materials to support civic learning nationwide in higher education. The materials will undergo peer review, editing, and publication through Clemson University Press. I’m grateful to be part of such an engaged and supportive cohort.

Recent Publications

My article, “Creative Civics in Higher Education: Evaluating Implementation of Artistic Activism Pedagogy through the Unstoppable Voters Faculty Fellowship,” has been published in Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement. The article evaluates the pedagogical impact of the Center for Artistic Activism’s Creative Campaign Framework as implemented through the 2024 Unstoppable Voters Faculty Fellowship.

My chapter, “Art in a Democratic Society,” has been published in the edited volume Community Engagement and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Affordances and Challenges of Service Learning in Crisis (Vernon Press). The chapter examines the development of an arts-based, civics-focused service-learning course during the COVID pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.

Presentations

I presented at the Imaging America National Gathering at New Mexico State University in October, sharing work developed through the Clemson Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars Program.

In September, I participated in the Nonviolence & Arts series sponsored by the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative in association with Pax Christi USA, alongside Becky McIntyre, Robert Shetterly, and Rosie Davila. We discussed how visual arts can function as powerful tools for nonviolence and just peace.
You can watch the recording here.

Nice Mention

Finally, a nice shoutout: Project Pericles published an interview with Krystal Barrett from the Center for Artistic Activism that includes a generous mention of my role in connecting C4AA and Project Pericles. I am grateful for the ongoing conversations and collaborations around art, democracy, and civic engagement.