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Gathering work from contributors in international law, political science, sociology, and history, New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice explains current trends in responses to post-conflict and post-authoritarian nations and offers original empirical research to help define the field for the future.

Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society. Social justice arts education confronts oppression and inequality arising from factors related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexuality. This edition of Common Threads investigates the intersection of social justice work with education in the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, and literature. Weaving together resources from a range of University of Illinois Press journals, the editors offer articles on the scholarly inquiry, theory, and practice of social justice arts education. Selections from the past three decades reflect the synergy of the diverse scholars, educators, and artists actively engaged in such projects. Together, the contributors bring awareness to the importance of critically reflective and inclusive pedagogy in arts educational contexts. They also provide pedagogical theory and practical tools for building a social justice orientation through the arts.

This book is a collection of articles that reflect on various connectivities between art and social justice and media which are pertinent to studying contemporary societies. How different forms of media and art, in the broadest possible meaning of these terms, reflect on, relate to, and campaign for social justice is an important topic to consider as artists, academics and activists. The subject matter of the book is also contextualized, with attention being paid to historical, cultural and

This thesis will encompass the exploration of five of my works, which are representative of my thirty-five-year career in art and artistic practice. throughout diverse media, eras, and conceptual concerns, I remain an artist committed to spirituality and social change. Through my work, I teach and try to bring forth the spirit. The work that I am discussing in this thesis includes, paintings, creative writing, poetry and music. My paintings are physical; they explore paint and surface, print and voice. I engage in the plastic arts, and verbal expression, a painted or collaged thought, poem or song. The LRMFA Program has given me the opportunity to investigate where my current artistic practice is positioned. Through the incredible generosity of the professors, visiting artists, and my colleagues in the LRMFA program I have had the opportunity to spend time with my work, and create out of the experiences I have lived, and the new experiences I have encountered in the program. My work expresses a Symbolist aesthetic in image, the work is both spiritual and political in thought. I strive to bring socio-political ideas into the abstract work. My work communicates with the inner self and the outer world. The artist creates and the viewer is transformed. I am seeking the muse, and challenging myself to respond through my paintings to create a visual vocabulary that communicates socio-political issues. My work is an attempt to bring the viewer into a space where they can become open to the forces of imagination and spirit. I believe that art can transform us, or take us to a new awareness through color and form. The art of painting becomes an act of spiritual practice, because I enter the painting with body and mind, searching for the images as I wander through the canvas. Using the elements of color, form, and size, and by exploring different mediums, I want the viewer to travel with me to a place where they can "feel" the spirit awakening in them. My motivation to continue to paint, is very simple, I love to paint. I will continue to work across multiple disciplines, and to continue to search for ways to bring socio-political issues into the work. I am inspired as I leave the LRMF A Program to continue to work to find clarity in this "in between space", between social justice and spirituality.