Handbook: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education
HANDBOOK is a collaborative intervention in art and design pedagogy. It offers faculty a radical rethink on how to work with queer and transgender students on their path to becoming artists and designers – from the first day of school through to seminars, studio classes, and critiques. HANDBOOK draws directly from student experiences to help faculty of all orientations bring equitable teaching practices and queer curricula into art and design classes.
This 112-page publication is produced in a limited edition of 1200 with a gatefold letterpress cover, printed by Nick Shick and Queer Publishing Project, on Vandercook Universal and No. 4 presses. HANDBOOK is designed by Cecilia Berkovic, with illustrations by Morgan Sea, and published by Queer Publishing Project and OCAD University Publications Program.
Handbook was a project of Queer Publishing Project, an active research group of over 100 students, former students, alumni, staff and faculty at OCAD University founded by Anthea Black, Shamina Chherawala, Nick Shick, Vicky Avramopolous, Taikun Kambashi, and Eli Howey. Our intersectional community aimed to centre the voices of queer and transgender students in post-secondary visual art and design pedagogy.
Edited by Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala
Graphic Design by Cecilia Berkovic
Production Coordination by Nick Shick and Anthea Black
Illustrations Morgan Sea Thomson
The Queer Publishing Project gratefully acknowledges the founding support of the BIG IDEAS fund, Office for Diversity, Equity, and Sustainability Initiatives at OCAD University and the OCAD Student Union.
HANDBOOK is available at the following libraries:
Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Artexte Information Centre, Montreal
Banff Centre, Paul Fleck Library and Archives, artist’s book collection, Banff
The Black Archives, Amsterdam, Netherlands
California College of the Arts, Meyer Library, Oakland
Concordia University, Montreal
Cornell University, Ithaca
Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
Maryland Institute College of Art, College Park
Metropolitan State University, Denver
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis
Monash University Library, Melbourne, Australia
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
National Gallery of Canada Library, Ottawa
NSCAD University, Halifax
OCAD University, Toronto
PaTi – Paju Typography Institute, Paju Bookcity, Seoul, South Korea
RMIT University Library, Melbourne, Australia
Tufts University, Tisch Library, Boston
UC Berkeley, Berkeley
University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford
University of Maryland, College Park
University of San Francisco
University of Waterloo, Kitchener-Waterloo
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
York University, Toronto