ColCat Heart Series

The ColCat Heart Series explores public scholarship beyond the academy by expanding classroom pedagogies into community spaces, integrating student, faculty and scholarly workshops and artistic creations beyond the classroom. Our shared lived experiences inform us throughout our class and scholarly work and the authors have benefited from casual conversations over food or with author’s of pieces we sit with during class. Through networked activities, our understanding of research through a multitude of lenses has connected each to reflect on work and create space for dialogue that ignites hope, healing, compassion and joy. Activities like classroom gatherings with scholars, art representation of readings, and designing workshops and jigsaws that connect across literature have augmented our ability to create counter storytelling and come to the other side of knowing.

The purpose of this project is to create community spaces for teaching, learning, expression and healing. To this aim, we look forward to inviting community members (not only within the academy) to facilitate workshops as well as craft works of art for a virtual exhibition that continues to collectively radically imagine education and healing.