Cala Coats

Coats, C. (2023). New materialisms and embodied inquiry in education: Curiosity’s collective potential.Radical Politics and Education Series (T. Lewis & D. Ford, Series Eds.). Bloomsbury Academic (Under Contract – in progress for 2023 publication).

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters 

Coats, C., Singha, S., Zuiker, S., & Riske, A. (2022). Imagining our neighborhood of nonhuman residents: Sensorial attunement as ecological aesthetic inquiry. In M. Sharma & A. Alexander (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education. Routledge Taylor & Francis (accepted, in press).

Coats, C. (2021). Listen to the smell of distress. J. Lucero (Ed.), What Happens at the Intersection of Teaching and Conceptual Art(in press).

Coats, C. (2019). Transversalizing aesthetic practices: Engaging the vital force of community art work. Sabbaghi, V. & Wexler, A. (Eds.). Bridging communities through socially engaged arts(pp. 137-143). Routledge. 

Coats, C. (2018). The walls tell the story: Making as collective force in the evolution of an earth home community. E. Garber, L. Hochtritt, & M. Sharma (Eds.).Makers, crafters, educators: Working for cultural change, (pp. 43-46). Routledge. 

Coats, C. (2017). Feeling the sting of being a tattooed mother in the public eye. In (S. Travis, A. Kraehe, E. Hood, T. Lewis, Eds.) Pedagogies in the flesh: Case studies on the embodiment of sociocultural differences in education, (pp. 61-64). Palgrave. 

Coats, C. (2016/2020).Artist-cum-Farmer: The collective aestheticization of farming as civic engagement. In (R. Shin, Ed.) Convergence of contemporary art, visual culture, and global civic engagement, (pp. 185-209) IGI Global. Doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch011 and In Environmental and Agricultural Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1233-1257). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9621-9.ch056

Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Articles

Coats, C. (2020). Stickiness as methodological condition. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 40, 16-28. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jstae/vol40/iss1/3/

Coats, C. (2019). Realize collective value: Generating immeasurable potential through creative micro-economies and self-organized cultural activity. Art Education, 72(5), 40-46. (Special Issue: Entrepreneurialism and Creative Destruction; acceptance rate: 30%) https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2019.1621628

Coats, C. & Clyne, D. (2017). Welcome swarms: Opening up to art education’s force in a democratic global society. Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association, 70(1), 44-49.https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2017.1247572

Coats, C. (2015). Materializing transversal potential: An ecosophical analysis of the dissensual aestheticization of a decommissioned missile base. The Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 32, 127-160. http://www.jcrae.org/journal/index.php/jcrae/article/view/45

Coats, C. (2014). Thinking through the photographic encounter: Engaging with the camera as nomadic weapon.International Journal of Education and the Arts, 15(9), 1-23. http://www.ijea.org/v15n9/

Coats, C. (2014, Summer). Tracing suburban desire. Visual Arts Research, 40(1), 17-18. https://doi.org/10.5406/visuartsrese.40.1.0017

Coats, C. (2012). Act locally: Considering possibilities with local art collectives. Trends: The Journal of the Texas Art Education Association, 2012, 48-49. https://www.taea.org/TAEA/Docs/2012/TAEA-2012-November-Trends.pdf

Invited Academic Journal Articles

Coats, C. (2020). Commentary: Embrace art education’s indiscernibility. Art Education, 73(4), 44-47. (Special Issue: The Future of Art Curriculum). 

https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2020.1717818

Coats, C., & Shields, A. (2019). Inviting the waste of studio practice: Cala Coats and Alison Shields in conversation. Visual Arts Research, 45(1), 103-109. (Special Issue: Women art educators in higher education: Conversations on studio practices). https://doi.org/10.5406/visuartsrese.45.1.0103

Editor, Peer-Reviewed 

Coats, C., & Sharma, M. (Eds.). 2021. Theme: Encountering Uncertainty, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 41. 

                  Editorial: Encountering uncertainty: Shifting Orientations through Imagination and Disruption, (pp. 2-6). https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jstae/vol41/iss1/

Coats, C., & Justice, S. (Eds.). 2018. Special Issue: Disrupting the everyday: Encountering awareness and new curiosities. Trends: The Journal of the Texas Art Education Association. 

                  Editorial: Disrupting the everyday: Encountering awareness and new curiosities, (p. 4). https://www.taea.org/TAEA/Docs/2018/TRENDS-2018.pdf