Abstract

Living and working with Ojibwe participants in northern Minnesota informed a phenomenological approach to my three-month multi-sited ethnography. This research encompassed aspects of oral history and arts inquiry to investigate artistic processes, personal histories, and community relations of Ojibwe participants. I sought situational meaning generated between Ojibwe participants and my varied roles as an arts researcher, apprenticing artist, laborer, house caretaker, student and friend in order to articulate relational understandings of arts-mediated experiences. These experiences generated narrative content as collage and continuously directed the flow of the study, shifted my inquiry process, smudged my positionalities, and carefully informed my reflexive research ethics.

Keywords: intercultural arts research, ethics of care, decolonizing methodologies, phenomenology, narrative

How to Cite:

Slivka, K., (2015) “Methodological Considerations for Intercultural Arts Research: Phenomenology, Ethnography, Collage Narrative, and Ethics”, Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education 2015(1), 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/2326-7070.1486

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Kevin Slivka