Global Art Histories was designed as the quintessential art history subject. It combines public lectures, private tutorials, and an immersive sketchbook research project, resulting in ambitious collaborations. This presentation critically reviews the development of this subject, and how it rose to attract to more than 700 registered audience members nationwide in 2024.
In this presentation, we will look behind the scenes of "The Art of Everywhere Else". A/Prof Sam Bowker will discuss AI-resistant assessment strategies including observational drawing, the design and reflective use of vibrant lectures, and student-directed uses of museum collections as accessible learning resources. These are the result of his experiences as a museum educator, curator and academic, and they emerge from re-centering Islamic art toward a critical regionalist, decolonising, craft-aware and justice-driven challenge to Eurocentric models of art history and visual culture.
This work is indebted to the support of Wagga Wagga City Council, the nationwide networks of ArtsNational (formerly known as ADFAS), Eastern Riverina Arts, the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Charles Sturt University.
