Inquiring Artfully: Provocations Toward Creative Exploration

A Workshop Series

In these workshops, participants are invited to experiment with provocations toward staying in the present, slowing down, and moving with intention that form the foundation for artful inquiry. We define artful inquiry as simultaneously aesthetic, embodied, curious, relational, transformative, and speculative. We reimagine how knowledge is created and shared, and invite participants to see the process of inquiry as art itself, alive, ever-evolving and responsive. These workshops are inspired by the praxis of our work with artful inquiry and the questions we both bring to our scholarship. We lean into movements as a way to invite the doing of artful inquiry, to provide permission and possibility to move beyond the traditional and accepted. We welcome researchers, instructors, students, and practitioners who are curious about expanding their repertoires of inquiry.


Why might you attend an Inquiring Artfully workshop?  

  • You might join us because you’re a researcher who wants to engage in critical, multimodal forms of knowledge production. 

  • You might join us because you’re a student (or researcher) who is interested in exploring artful ways of doing and engaging in inquiry and are wondering where to start. 

  • You might be an instructor, who is thinking of ways to shift your instructional strategies in the classroom and encourage critical reflexivity about the content and process of engaging in social science research.

  • Or, you might join us because you want to think about and explore the world differently.

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American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group Pre-Conference Workshop (2026) - Los Angeles, California - 75 minutes, in person

Celebrating 25 Years of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Georgia Workshop Series (2026) - Athens, Georgia - 120 minutes, in person

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Arts-Based Educational Research Special Interest Group Pre-Conference Session (2025) - 90 minutes, virtual