Contents

Introduction

Reaching a Milestone: IVLA at 50
Danilo M. Baylen

Reading the Visual

1. Engaging with Endpapers: A Visual Literacy Experience Upon Opening a Picturebook  
Geri Chesner 

2. Using Graphic Novels to Illustrate Empathy
Lee Okan

3. Discourses of Power in Historical News Photographs: Bain News Service and Representation in the Age of Imperialism
Denitsa Yotova

Experiencing the Visual

4. Visual Genealogy of Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Selfies: Same Phenomenon, Different Phase of History         Margaretha Häggström

5. Papers, Pencils, and Crayons: A Case Study in Building Visual Literacy Skills for College Students
Pamela Wicks and Meg Bero

6. Introducing Graphic Facilitation and Recording
Sharlene Kennedy

7. Funny Feeling – Introducing a Performance Art Approach to Visual Literacy
Elke Mark

Crossing Disciplines

8. Constructing Arts-based Literacy Practices through Kwame Alexander’s “The Playbook”
Anne Katz

9. Surveying Visual Literacy Guidelines for Information Design Application
Randy Howe

10. Design: Changing Zeitgeist, Changing Communication
Phillip Gallagher

11. Creativity and the Development of New Ideas: the Generative Potential of Visual Literacy.                                 Brad Hokanson