Preferred Name
Celeste Boseman
Creative Commons License
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Date of Graduation
8-16-2025
Semester of Graduation
Summer
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
School of Art, Design, and Art History
First Advisor
Hannah Sions
Second Advisor
Karin Tollefson-Hall
Third Advisor
William Wightman
Abstract
This study investigates the ways in which the artists and artworks depicted throughout their K-12 art education influence students’ personal sociocultural identity development. By utilizing a self-reporting survey and individual interviews, this study explores the perspectives of current university students; their exposure to diversity in their K-12 art education; and the curricular perspectives that influence their identity. The artists and the artwork that art educators show in the classroom are only one aspect of what makes up a student’s art curriculum; this research project demonstrates the impact those artists can have on students’ identity development. The results of this study provide insight as to how the perspectives of university students could contribute to the field of art education. Further, the study demonstrates how students’ sociocultural identities can influence the curricular choices of art educators.
