Stephanie Springgay is an artist and curator who lives and works in Tkaronto (Toronto) and a Professor and Director of the School of the Arts at McMaster University. Their community and socially-engaged practice and scholarship includes collaborating with students and teachers in K-12 public schools on issues related to social justice, place-based learning, and contemporary art as pedagogy (www.thepedagogicalimpulse.com). She is also the director of the research-creation collaboratory WalkingLab (WalkingLab.org). WalkingLab studies and advances the theory and practice of critical walking methodologies through interdisciplinary arts practices and public walking events including walking tours and field schools (www.walkinglab.org). She is interested in engaging different publics through the arts to address issues related to climate change, food security, LGBTQ+ activism, migration and extractivism. She has published widely on contemporary art, radical pedagogies, and affective learning and her most recent book Feltness: Research-Creation, Socially-Engaged Art and Affective Pedagogies (Duke, 2022) won the University Art Associations book award in 2023.
