Abstract Three-dimensional (3-D) printing, a male-dominated field, is also a process, medium, and form that feminist artists have explored to denounce patriarchal practices and hail critical social justice consciousness. In this article, two feminist art educators present pedagogical strategies to introduce feminist artists who work with 3-D printing, along with how to develop site-specific art lesson plans, using ChatGPT to assist in generating art lesson plans, for teaching 3-D printing as feminist activism. Issues of power, knowledge, and affect are central to a vast array of concerns that feminist artists, scholars, educators, and activist address, and are integral to the work of the feminist artists (e.g., Mary Visser, Marcy Milks, Amy Karle, Noga Karpel, Morehshin Allahyari, and Anousha Payne) included in our study. For example, the authors discuss Iranian-born U.S. artist Morehshin Allahyari, who considers her use of 3-D sculpting processes of reconstructing Iranian cultural treasures as feminist activism. In this article, we provide content, prompts, and strategies to teach 3-D printing inspired from feminist artists who use 3-D scanners and 3-D printers as tools of investigation in their art.
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