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Welcome to The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal, a transdisciplinary, global, theory-practice, open access, online journal that invites artists, researchers, educators, arts-based community organizers and activists, students and young voices who integrate the arts in their work.
We expand STEAM (Arts in STEM) to include arts integration in social sciences, humanities, and community-engaged work. The arts - in all its forms and modalities - bring transdisciplinary boundary crossing processes and mindsets for research, education, and practice. Through the arts, we engage in sense-making, discovery, learning, contemplation, and transformative work for positive social impact and flourishing. The arts are a refractive prism to understand self and society, as social critique and illumination, for exploring and developing knowledge, in meaningful deep learning and teaching, and critical in transforming individuals and community toward flourishing.
We welcome artwork, arts-based social advocacy and activism, arts-based research in Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM, blog post reflections and op-ed articles, reviews of books about STEAM and arts integration, and arts-integration lesson plans.
Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1 (2026)
Editorials
STEAM+: Arts Integration and the Future
Shamini Dias
Spotlights
Articles
Decolonising Narratives Through Sonic Artistry and Weaving Dialogues: A Trans-Indigenous Exploration
Adam Manning and Sara Motta
The UnSmart Home: A STEAM Approach to Coding Though Drama and Creative Play
Jennifer R. Roberts
The Team in STEAM: Integrating Disciplinary Practices into Project-Based Experiences
Margaret L. Borden, Meghan Raftery, David Reese, and Michelle Richter
Artwork
Home: Transforming a Public Arts Grant into a Community Project
Scarlett G. Baily
Diagrammatic Contemplation
Khang Nguyen
Chromatic Meditations
Jessica Csanky
Mita y Mita: Bilingualism Beyond Identity Borders
Belén S. Yudess
Field Articles
Integrating STEAM Through Honeybee Education in Southern Appalachia
Gary Padgett and Haley Holt
Fiesta de Día de Muertos: Integrating Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, and Cultural Heritage in an Elementary School Celebration
Mayra Urbina and Linda Judith Palafox
Fiesta de Día de Muertos: Integración de artes visuales, artes literarias, artes escénicas y patrimonio cultural en una celebración escolar de nivel primaria
Mayra Urbina and Linda Judith Palafox
Show and Tell: Integrating the Arts into Transdisciplinary Public Health and Community Organizing Education
Bree L. Hemingway and Margaret Hawkins
Reflections