Javier Cardona Otero is an interdisciplinary artist, critical educator, and facilitator of arts experiences as education. His artistic and pedagogical scholarship, presented throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, seeks to investigate sociocultural capitals, particularly concerning issues of identity, race, gender, class, and the environment. As a teaching-artist specialist in using the arts as an aesthetic form and a dialogical medium, Javier rehearses and inquires on art-making as research and embodied artwork as pedagogy. Javier is a Curriculum and Instruction PhD candidate in the Arts Education Program at Indiana University’s School of Education, Bloomington.
