Sara Ishii-Bear

Sara Ishii-Bear, PhD

Dr. Sara Ishii-Bear is an interdisciplinary feminist artist/scholar with a background in Visual Art and Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies. Her ongoing research examines creative interventions into social justice issues, related to contemporary women of color feminist art, and Gloria Anzaldúan theorizing. Ishii-Bear’s current art draws on personal and familial experience, rooted in Japanese-American history of immigration, citizenship, and labor.

Ishii-Bear holds a PhD in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University, an MFA in Art and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and an MA in Feminist, Gender, and Women’s Studies from York University, Toronto.

 

Recent Publications

• “Creative Acts of Vision: Connecting Art and Theory through Gloria Anzaldúa’s Archived Sketches,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol 57, No 2, Summer 2023. 

• “Sketching Spirit in Everything: Exploring Spirituality, Interconnectivity, and Creativity in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Archived Drawings,” Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies, Vol 1, No 12, 2022. 

• “Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Social Justice-Oriented Pedagogy: Adaptations to Introductory World Art History Survey Courses,” Art History Pedagogy & Practice Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2022. 

• “Applying Gloria Anzaldúa’s Creative Works to Speculative Realism: Bridging Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism and Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Philosophy,” philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, Volume 11, Issue 1/2, 2021.

• “(Re)Marks of Abuse: Gender Violence in Contemporary Feminists of Color Art,” MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. Issue 7, June 2021. 

 

College of Arts & Sciences - Sara Ishii-Bear, PhD

Recent Works

"Projecting Your Issues Onto Me," Mixed-media on acrylic, 11 x 14 inches, 2020

"Untitled," from "Works on Paper." Mixed-media on watercolor paper, 6 x 6 inches, 2020

"Untitled," from "Works on Paper." Mixed-media on watercolor paper, 6 x 6 inches, 2020

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