Very few studies and/or data exist on the potential of exhibitions as spaces of knowledge/research dissemination. To this end, members of the research team organised five major exhibitions of women’s community arts/crafts in Canada or New Zealand:

Women Seeing, Hearing and Touching Social Justice: The Power and Pedagogy of the Expressive Arts

AERC/CASAE Conference

June 2004, University of Victoria, Canada

The Subversive Quilt, International Quilt Festival

January 2004, Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa

Fiesty Fabrics, School of Continuing Education

January 2004, Mount Manganui, New Zealand/Aotearoa

Women and Community Arts, International Celebration of Adult Learners Week

September 2005, University of Victoria

Women’s Arts/Crafts and Adult Education

Exhibition in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies

December 2005, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria