What’s Going on Here? Considering the Anti-Racist Possibilities of Visual Thinking Strategies

By: Hannah Heller, Ed.D., Ashley Mask, Ed.D., and Daniela Fifi, Ed.D.

This article, co-written by three art museum educators and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) coaches, explores VTS’ potential as an anti-racist teaching tool. The authors unpack VTS’s historical and methodological limitations, as well as its capabilities for cultivating social-emotional learning skills necessary for race talk, such as moving through discomfort, acceptance of ambiguity, letting go of the narrative, and balancing multiple ideas at once.

This article appears on page 115 of Museological Review Issue 26.