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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 - are strong modalities for transdisciplinary boundary crossing in 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 prism that can help us understand self and society, offer social critique and illumination, and powerful tools for exploring and developing knowledge in meaningful deep learning and teaching. The arts can transform individuals and community and support flourishing.
We welcome artwork especially artwork that engages in boundary crossing, arts-based social advocacy and activism, field-notes that share arts-integration teaching and community engagement, arts-based research in Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM, blog post reflections and op-ed articles, reviews of books about STEAM and arts integration.
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
Supporting Teachers to Adopt Art-Based Pedagogy in Grade 10 Science Teaching: An Action Research
Rabina Maharjan Ms and Binod Prasad Pant Dr.
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
The Secret Science of Songs. Created by All Children Everywhere
Paul G. Morehouse PhD
Reflections
Issue Art:
The Radiance of Ether by Jessica Csanky