Considerations on education, art, and politics:

experiences, alternatives, and resistance

Abstract

This article addresses the interfaces between education, art, and politics, focusing on the history of Brazilian art education based on legislation and teaching experience in Art-Education at the Ceará State University (Universidade Estadual do Ceará – UECE). It is found, having the analysis of legislation as a basis, that the recent creation of a Common National Curriculum Base (Base Nacional Curricular Comum – BNCC) generates, within the school, a reduced space for art teaching in Brazil. We shed some light on art formativity in human life; then, we interconnect legislation to school art practice; and, finally, we exemplify the alternative ways found by the population as mechanisms to guarantee access to art and culture in Brazil. The utopian nature of art is what makes it have always been an expression of longings for a future built to seek a fairer society, where socialization of the immaterial heritage of humanity is guaranteed by the school.