Journal Details
Teaching Artist Journal
Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 9
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1541-1796
Online ISSN: 1541-180X
Aims & Scope
The Teaching Artist Journal is a print quarterly (also available online) that serves as a voice, forum, and resource for teaching artists and all those working at the intersection of art and learning. Each issue includes a wide variety of writing about the most innovative and powerful work being done by teaching artists across the US and around the world. TAJ is a research initiative of the Office of Academic Research, Columbia College Chicago, and is published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. More information about TAJ can be found at TAJournal.com.
TAJ encourages unconventional and novel approaches to writing about the practice and theory of teaching artistry, including narrative work, photo essays, graphic presentations, and experimental writing in the Practice, Research, Theory section and the Essays, Reflections, experiments section.
If you have questions about submitting an article to TAJ, contact: Nick Jaffe Chief Editor, TAJ TAJournal@colum.edu 773-793-4643
The mission of the Teaching Artist Journal:
- To advance effective, innovative practice by teaching artists and to document such practice.
- To serve as a vital, international forum, a practical and theoretical tool, and a point of connection for teaching artists of all kinds.
- To advocate for the interests of teaching artists.
- To forge new connections and new methods of communication among arts educators.
- To share the artistic, educational and social insights gained by teaching artists with the broader fields of education and arts practice.
- To advocate for access to work in the arts for all people.
Submission reuirements for the various sections of the Journal are as follows:
Practice, Research, Theory (feature articles)
- 4000 words maximum length.
- Work not previously published.
- Practice, Research, Theory section articles are subject to peer review prior to acceptance.
- Citations and references in MLA or APA style.
- Electronic submissions in MS Word format - email to TAJournal@colum.edu.
Ideas/Reflections/Experiments
- Opinion pieces, polemics, experimental and creative writings about the teaching artistry.
- 2000 words maximum length.
Resource Exchange Section - book, Web, and other resource reviews:
If you would like to submit a review for this section, or submit a book or other resource for review, please contact, Becca Barniskis, Resource Exhange Editor: beccabarniskis@gmail.com
Research Review Section - reviews and discussion of relevant research:
If you would like to submit a review of teaching artist or arts education related research, please contact Dan Serig, Research Review Editor: danserig@gmail.com
ALT/Space - Stories and Perspectives from the Field:
ALT/Space (TAJAltspace.com) is an online and print blog written by a team of TA correspondents from across the U.S. and around the world. If you are intersted in blogging about your work as a TA and the context in which you do it please contact ALT/Space Editor Malke Rosenfeld: malke.rosenfeld@earthlink.net
Letters to TAJ
TAJ strongly encourages reader response and dialog. Please submit all letters in MS Word format to: Nick Jaffe Chief Editor, TAJ TAJournal@colum.edu
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
