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Dr. Marzieh Mosavarzadeh

Dr. Marzieh Mosavarzadeh
Position
Assistant Teaching Professor, Art Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Contact
Office: MacLaurin A198
250-721-7894
Credentials

PhD (Art Education) University of British Columbia, MFA (Visual Arts) University of Calgary, BFA (Visual Arts) Tehran Azad University

  • Visual arts education and studio practices (K-12 and higher education)
  • Art education research and conceptual art
  • Relational and imaginative pedagogy
  • Ways of knowing through the arts
  • A/r/tography and arts-based methodologies
  • Place-based pedagogy and artmaking (making-place, place-making)
  • Community-engaged, participatory, and socially engaged art practices
My current project is an unfolding, arts-based inquiry into making–place through walking, material engagement, and relational pedagogy. I bring together my a/r/tographic commitments with imaginative pedagogy, where walking becomes both method and metaphor; an embodied and lived way of thinking–making with place and other presences. Across my teaching, research, and artistic practice, I trace how meaning emerges through slow, co-creative processes: through visual–textual pairings, the gathering of found materials, collaboration, and attentiveness to transience and in-betweens. My ongoing curiosity lives at the intersection of art education research and conceptual art, where I seek to dwell within artful and pedagogical practices that resist closure, inviting sustained attention to emergence, relational becoming, and the quiet, ongoing work of learning with and as place.
My teaching area is grounded in visual arts education and conceptual art across undergraduate and graduate contexts, with a focus on studio-based, inquiry-driven practices. I teach at the intersection of artmaking and pedagogy, where making is not only a mode of expression but a way of thinking, meaning-making, and coming to know. My courses invite students to engage art education as a relational and situated practice, drawing on place-based and arts-based approaches to attend to the material and social dimensions of learning. Through these engagements, I encourage students to consider how curriculum might be lived, felt, and continually (re)imagined as an emergent, responsive, and artful process.

Peer-reviewed Publications 

Mosavarzadeh, M., & Frattura, A. (2025). A walking poem. Visual Arts Research, 51(101), 34-37.

Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., & Irwin, R. L. (2025). Pairs together: A/r/tographic learning in relation with visual-textual propositions. International Journal of Art & Design Education.

Mosavarzadeh, M., & Ding, P. (2022). Hold me: Togetherness as an aesthetic experience. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 41(3), 376-388.

Mosavarzadeh, M., Mahlouji, Sh., Moussavi, Y., & Sarreshtehdari, E. (2022). Walking with water:(Re)making pedagogical relations through walking and artmaking. The Canadian Journal of Action Research, 22(2), 91-108.

Ikeda, S., Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., Arai, K., Aida, D., & Namai, R. (2020). A/r/tography attempted to include diverse values: Through “a narrative by three pictures project in Hiroshima”. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Studies in Education, 1, 275-284.

Lee, N., Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., & Irwin, R. L. (2019). Walking propositions: Coming to know a/r/tographically. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 38(3), 681-690.

 

Edited Books and Catalogues

Roldán, J., Viadel, R., Mosavarzadeh, M., Morimoto, K., Irwin, R. L. (Eds.). (2024). Visual methods, a/r/tography and walking. Editorial de la Universidad de Granada (Spain).

Lee, N. Y. S., Mosavarzadeh, M., Ursino, J. M., & Irwin, R. L. (2024). Material and digital a/r/tographical explorations: Walking matters. Springer.

Mosavarzadeh, M., & Morimoto, K. (Eds. & Curators). (2020). Making – Place: International postcard exhibition. InSEA Publications.

 

Book Chapters

Lee, N. Y. S., Mosavarzadeh, M., Ursino, J. M., Irwin, R. L. (2024). Introduction: Material and digital conversations: walking matters in a/r/tography. In N. Y. S. Lee, M. Mosavarzadeh, J. M. Ursino, & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Material and digital a/r/tographic explorations: Walking matters. Springer.

Mosavarzadeh, M. (2024). Pins, propositions, paths, potentials, and poetics of walking: Take one. In N. Y. S. Lee, M. Mosavarzadeh, J. M. Ursino, & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Material and digital a/r/tographical explorations: Walking matters (pp. 301-304). Springer.

Mosavarzadeh, M. (2024). And walking into the space between.... In N. Y. S. Lee, M. Mosavarzadeh, J. M. Ursino, & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Material and digital a/r/tographical explorations: Walking matters (pp. 305-318). Springer.

Lee, N., Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M., & Irwin, R. L. (2024). Walking propositions: Coming to know a/r/tographically. In R. L. Irwin, A. Lasczik, A. Sinner, & V. Triggs (Eds.), A/r/tography: Essential readings and conversations (pp. 418-432). Intellect.

Mosavarzadeh, M. (2024). From a desk in the a/r/tography lab into the future. In R. L. Irwin, A. Lasczik, A. Sinner, & V. Triggs (Eds.), A/r/tography: Essential readings and conversations (pp. 479-487). Intellect.

Mosavarzadeh, M. (2024). Making place a/r/tographically. In J. Roldán, R. Viadel, M. Mosavarzadeh, K. Morimoto, R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Visual methods, a/r/tography and walking (pp. 160-185). Editorial de la Universidad de Granada (Spain).

Mosavarzadeh, M. (2024). The birthday gift. In N. Y. S., Lee, R. L. Irwin, A. I. Baldus, D. T. Barney, D., & J. M. Ursino (Eds.), Pedagogical propositions: Playful walking with a/r/tography [book 1]: Encounters. International Society for Education through Art (InSEA).

Ursino, J. M., Irwin, R. L., Lee, N., Morimoto, K., Mosavarzadeh, M. (2021). Pedagogical affect and the curricular imperative in a moment of poesis. In A. Lasczik, D. Rousell, R. L. Irwin, A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles & N. Lee (Eds.). Walking with a/r/tography (pp. 17-36). Palgrave.

 

2025: Patience Stones: Material Inquiry as Slow Pedagogy: collaborative installation: Ken Morimoto & Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

2025: Acadia Art Program Pop-up: Tender Traces, installation, Acadia Park Commons Block, UBC, Vancouver 

2025: An AiRS program exhibition: I AM Resilience & Reciprocity, installation, Vancouver School Board Education Centre, Student Gallery, Vancouver

2023: Is it Still Living (curated by Yasaman Moussavi & Elmira Sarreshtehdari), video installation, Artspeak, Vancouver

2023: Ominous Chaos (curated by Bahar Mohazabnia), printmaking and installation, Centre A Gallery, Vancouver

2023: Longing for What Might Be (curated by Elmira Sarreshtehdari & Yasaman Moussavi), video installation, Hatch Gallery, UBC, Vancouver

2022: For A Spell (curated by Ghinwa Yassine), painting, text, and video installation, VIVO Media Art Centre, Vancouver

2019: Making-Place (curated by Marzieh Mosavarzadeh & Ken Morimoto), postcard exhibition, AHVA, UBC, Vancouver

2019: Mapping A/r/tography (curated by Nicole Lee), photography installation, Dorothy Somerset Building, UBC, Vancouver

2018: Neither Here, Nor There, printmaking and drawing, South Main Gallery, Vancouver

2017: Nextfest 2017, printmaking installation, Paint Spot, Roots on Whyte, the Old Strathcona Library and the Roxy Theatre, Edmonton