Dena Bagi curates pedagogies that harness the ontological assets of clay. Influenced heavily by clay’s earthly cycle, Dena collaboratively curates workshops, projects and symbiotic learning environments with the communities they serve. Dena’s curatorial research includes the creation of a new pedagogic methodology, Clay Cycle. The methodology has roots in clay’s epistemic capacity, allowing its ‘user’ to reflexively curate pedagogical programming alongside participants with lived experience.
Dena teaches undergraduate and postgraduate-level at Manchester School of Art in and around the area of curation, social curation and gallery-based engagement. Before working in an academic context, Dena led health-based pedagogical programming in the gallery sector. She has a PhD from The University of Sunderland.
