Multicultural Art Education and the Heterosexual Imagination: A Question of Culture

Abstract

This article discusses the place sexual diversity has within multicultural art education with a specific focus on the ways culture is discussed in multicultural arteducationdiscourses. Idraw on queer theory's contribution to issues of identity and subjectivity to address and rethink the concept of culture. I specifically analyze how the term “culture” operates in both mainstream and social reconstructive approaches in multicultural art and whether the term limits our understanding of the complex intersections of sexuality with race, ethnicity, gender, and social class.