Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images. In this new Common Threads collection, Jorge Lucero draws on the archive of the journal Visual Arts Research to present articles focused on the place of collage in fine art and education. Guided by the twinned concepts of mereness —collage's reputation as a trifle—and easiness —the technique's accessibility to all—the authors explore how subversive, debased, and effortless the collage gesture can be. What emerges is in and of itself a collage, one that groups disparate scholarship into a whole that reveals how the technique may serve as a method of scholarship and as a wellspring of vibrant, even radical, pedagogical utility. Contributors: Michael Biggs, Ian Buchanan, Daniela Büchler, Paul Duncum, Charles R. Garoian, Kit Grauer, Anniina Suominen Guyas, Kathleen Keys, Jorge Lucero, Dan Nadaner, Ryan Patton, Janet N. Stevenson, Robert W. Sweeny, and Stuart Thompson.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Mere and Easy Common Threads: Collage as a New Sort of Some Thing - Jorge Lucero The Little Hans Assemblage - Ian Buchanan Teenagers and Their Bedrooms - Kit Grauer Arts-Based Educational Research as a Site for Emerging Pedagogy and Developing Mentorship - Anniina Suominen Guyas and Kathleen Keys Three Funerals and a Wedding: Art Education, Digital Images, and an Aesthetics of Cloning - Robert W. Sweeny Research into Practice and A/r/tography: A Study of Kinship - Michael Biggs and Daniela Büchler Collage as a Symbolic Activity in Early Childhood - Janet N. Stevenson and Paul Duncum Art Education in the Silent Gaps of Visual Culture - Charles R. Garoian Fragments of Post-modern Times: A Collage - Stuart Thompson "Why" Project: Art in the Aftermath - Ryan Patton Mental Imagery and Art Education - Dan Nadaner |Jorge Lucero currently serves on the faculty of the School of Art + Design's art education program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.