Art Is Homeless, Endless, and Edgeless—That’s Why It Can Change the World

L iving through a worldwide pandemic of staggering human loss, witnessing Black Lives Matter on a local and global scale, and experiencing seemingly unstoppable climate change, was to feel isolated, powerless, and aimless. I wondered what Studies in Art Education Vol. 61 (Studies 61) authors might offer as a collective vision for uncertain futures. A question took shape, which implied the marginalized and dispossessed with little access to governance and limited public agency in decision making offered hope for the future. Reading the contributions to Studies 61 unfolded on two levels. First, to get a sense of how a cohort of art educators confront fundamental issues, a curatorial process of collecting and mapping was applied. This journey created a series of storied threads along the way—endnotes—that map moments of personal connection where knowledge, circumstance, and consequence merge with the potency of learning from lived experience.