Let's make zines! Using arts-based methods to conduct deep analyses of qualitative data

A Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy workshop

Speaker: Professor Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

The purpose of this workshop is to open up a methodological discussion about the role of the visual arts in qualitative research writ large, and then to practice using drawings to work with our data using strategies from creative nonfiction writing and arts-based research work.

This workshop asks you to come to the session with a small body of descriptive qualitative data with which you would like to work. It would also be helpful if you brought copies of any artifacts or important visual representations from your fieldwork (or elsewhere) that you would feel comfortable using for collage purposes (optional). Together we will identify, transform and open up important moments from our research into tiny jewel-box zines to share resonant meaning in our work. Participants will complete one zine of their own for distribution, trading or library-building, or as analytic tools for future writing.