Joseph Madres is an artist, art educator, researcher, and activist. He is passionate about teaching, learning, community-cultivating, and forms of collaborative cultural production and symbolic creativity - ‘the arts.’ He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Teaching, Curriculum, and Society department in the Lynch School of Education & Human Development at Boston College. Joe is particularly interested in the transformative potential of the arts in providing possibilities for natural communities—the human and more-than-human constituents of local ecosystems—to imagine and realize alternative ways of living justly, equitably, and flourishingly together. Joe’s past experiences include coaching, substitute and part-time ELL teaching, teaching art full-time and as an artist-educator, camp counseling, managing and strategic planning for arts-based education nonprofit programs, grant writing, and researching and evaluating. He considers himself an a/r/tivist—a lived practice merging artmaking, research, teaching and activism—and encourages the youth and communities with whom he works to join him in becoming co-a/r/tivists to provoke transformative change at the local level.
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