Dr. Cala Coats is an Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator for the Art Education Department in the School of Art. She is also a Global Futures Scholar with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU. Her research focuses on intersections of ethics and aesthetics with an emphasis on nomadic inquiry, public pedagogy, and socially engaged art. She is currently writing a book on curiosity and New Materialisms in education. Dr. Coats has published in a range of journals, with book chapters in The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education; What Happens at the Intersection of Teaching and Conceptual Art; Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change (Routledge), and Bridging Communities Through Socially Engaged Art (Routledge). In 2021, she was awarded Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association. She is currently the Co-Associate Editor ofThe Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. She served as Co-Editor for the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, v. 41 (Theme: Encountering Uncertainty). In 2019, she organized the symposium, Imaginative Futures: Arts-Based Research as Boundary Event, and a week-long curriculum and studio workshop for regional art educators at ASU.