Gustave Weltsek PhD, (he, i, they) Associate Professor of Arts Education at Indiana University, School of Education. Gustave is a critical Artist Activist (Artivist) committed to the use of the arts as a means for social activism, community engagement and systemic policy change. Gustave teaches graduate courses in imaginative, critical creative pedagogies, post qualitative and performative inquiry and undergraduate courses in drama and theater in/as education. His research examines how a critical performative pedagogy (Weltsek et al. 2014; Pineau 2002) may function as a space for equitable social. His works appears in such journals as; Youth Theatre Journal, Arts Education Policy Review, Language Arts, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and includes; Deconstructing Global Markets Through Critical Performative Experiences in Puerto Rico: Visible Discourse(s), Multimodal Semiotics, and Analogous Reflection in Applied Theatre Inquiry for which he awarded the AATE Distinguished Research Award. He is the recipient of the 2023, 2021 and 2019 Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award. His national and international service includes board of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Theatre of the Oppressed (POTO), editorial review work with professional journals such as ArtsPraxis, The International Journal of Applied Theatre, and the International Journal of Design for Learning.

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