BOOK

What do you do that can’t be measured? In this innovative debut on both the practice and study of critical educators, Restler answers back with radical care. Radical care in teaching and research; radical care as embodied and affective; radical care as justice work up against real and imagined deficits and racial capitalist scarcities. Drawing on a collaborative visual study with New York City public school teachers and her own art-research practice, Victoria Restler offers up a framework for radical care as relational, liberatory and fundamentally immeasurable. Order HERE.

Victoria stitches together research, art, theory and practice, the everyday, and the extraordinary to offer a new kind of medicine. A medicine made radical by its simplicity, radical by its rituals. This book is a map and a ministry for a time like this. It is a call to care and love at a time when we need these things most.

Vashti DuBois, Executive Director/Founder, The Colored Girls Museum

RECENT POEMS

American Jewish Sonnet (pair). electric pink poetry magazine.

On Looking. Panorama Journal.

The World. Panorama Journal.

Poem for seventeen humans and the space we built together during a time we never could have imagined. In M. Pindyck & R. Vinz, Eds., A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers: Reorienting Classroom Practice (Bloomsbury).

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Restler, V. (2023). Reference/ Referents: Studies in and Against the White Space of the Campus Library. In B. Bickel, R. Irwin, & R. Siegesmund (Eds.) Reflections on Arts Based Educational Research by Authors of Outstanding Dissertations, Springer.

Hamlin, J. & Restler, V. (2021). Picturing Whiteness: Working with images to visualize and resist white supremacy in educational spaces. Art Education Journal.

Restler, V., Luttrell, W., & Chapin, D. (2021). A Place to be Together: Cultivating Spaces of Discomfort and Not Knowing in Visual Analysis. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 22(1), 22-48.