Across this issue, authors identify a myriad of contemporary social, cultural, economic and geopolitical issues that increasingly tangle with art and design education. Such twenty-first-century flows (and woes) include cultural colonization and westernization; nationalism and US exceptionalism; traumatic stress and compassion fatigue; climate-change-driven species extinction; image-based sexual abuse and the emergence of AI. Collectively, this issue’s contributions nudge us towards agency in art education – ethically responding to and reshaping global flows.
Joy G. Bertling (Sun,) studied this question.