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Conducting a Dissertation by Implication: Showing Up as Relational Method in Community-Engaged Arts-Based Research

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Developing arts-based research that integrates community members making and testimony requires finding willing and eager participants. While existing scholarship in community-based art education emphasizes the need for ethical engagement with participants and communities, it often frames finding community partners as a logistical hurdle rather than a relational endeavour. This paper draws on two embedded arts-based doctoral dissertations to propose ‘showing up’ and getting involved in community as a relational approach to embedding for community-engaged arts-based research situated within broader forms of relational ethnography. We argue getting involved offers core benefits for researchers and community sites, and propose strategies for arts-based researchers developing community projects.

Source: The Canadian Review of Art Education / Revue canadienne d’éducation artistique

DOI: 10.26443/crae.v52i1.2515

Authors: David LeRue, Arianna García-Fialdini

Institution: Concordia University

Language: English

Topic: Artistic and Creative Research

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Concordia University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7142642685

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