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Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Masters in Art Education      Graduation Date: December 2013

BKC International House, Moscow
Cambridge CELTA Certification – Grade B – Awarded October 2006

Carnegie Mellon University, School of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Major: Fine Art       Graduation Date: May 2005
Member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society
Graduated with both school and university honors

Assistant Professor of Art Education – August 2023 – Present
Miami University, Oxford, OH
Developed and instructed art education courses, including establishing fieldwork relationships, fostering curricular connections with Indigenous scholars at the Myaamia Center, and directing Miami’s Saturday Art program.

Coordinator– April 2024 – Present
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education
Coordinated with board members CSTAE programs, including soliciting, reviewing and awarding annual Buffington START Grant recipients, setting and running regular meetings, reviewing conference proposals, and facilitating caucus conference sessions.

Temporary Assistant Professor of Art Education – September 2022 – May 2023
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Developed and instructed art education and studio courses in the departments of Education and Arts & Art History. Developed a new art education course for the Art & Art History department focused on digital materials and places. Served on Graduate and Curriculum committees.

Coordinator-Elect – March 2022 – April 2024
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education
Collaborated with CSTAE Coordinator and Past Coordinator on revising interest group bylaws, awarding research and teaching grants, running meetings at conferences, coordinating with JSTAE journal editors, and managing CSTAE affairs.

Research Assistant, Coding for Quantitative Arts Research – June 2020 – May 2022
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Developed Python scripts for audio feature extraction of large corpuses of YouTube mashups and their source songs, as part of a grant-funded research project. Generated both static and interactive web-based visualizations of extracted data to facilitate analysis and share data.

Digital Curator – March 2019 – March 2021
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education
Participated in my capacity as an officer in caucus meetings. Maintained caucus website and social media accounts. Distributed calls for papers for the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education.
Co-facilitated the planning and implementation of a significant restructuring of the Caucus’s online curricular resource archives.

Instructor, Pre-Service Art Education (Undergrad) – August 2019 – May 2022
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Developed and instructed undergraduate Introduction to Art Education, Interpreting Art Experience: Social and Behavioral Perspectives, and Interpreting Art Experience: Educational Perspectives courses. Facilitated exploration of arts issues with interdisciplinary groups and groups of pre-service art education instructors, and arranged fieldwork opportunities in area schools.

Instructor, Summer Youth Art Programs – July-August 2012-present
The Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC
Developed curriculum for and taught beginner and advanced sessions of a video game design course for elementary and middle school students, as well as experimental new media “Digital Arts Mash-Up” and creative coding classes for middle schoolers.

Lead Curriculum Designer – January 2014 – June 2018
CurrentLab, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Researched and developed on-line teaching resources and curricular modules for use in an NEA grant-funded teacher training workshop designed to instruct art educators on how to teach video game design. Ensured modules aligned with state and national standards of learning and drew meaningful connections between technology and contemporary art.

Digital and Studio Arts Teacher, High School – August 2014 – June 2018
Patrick Henry High School, Ashland, VA
Developed and taught new media and traditional arts projects to high school students in Graphic Arts I & II, and Art II, III & IV courses.

Adjunct Instructor – January 2014 – May 2014
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Developed and co-taught a syllabus for an undergraduate student teaching seminar course. Instructed an undergraduate course in disability-inclusive art education, observing and providing feedback to pre-service teachers working with preschoolers with diverse needs.

Instructor & Coordinator – January 2014 – May 2014
ART 180, Richmond, VA
Developed and led a web design course for a youth leadership team at a local arts non-profit. Taught HTML and CSS coding, and coordinated with designers, developers, and the non-profit’s communications team to develop projects that provided students the opportunity to contribute to the upcoming redesign of the non-profit’s website.

Research Assistant – January 2014 – May 2014
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Conducted qualitative analysis of data in a grant-funded research project examining community-engaged art education practice, food literacy, and the phenomenon of food deserts.

Instructor – July-August 2012-2015
St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, VA
Developed and taught three art courses for elementary and secondary students, including a green screen video course, a mixed-media integrated science course, and a course exploring different strategies of portraiture, in a creative arts summer camp.

Founding Editor – August 2012 – May 2015
VOKE, Richmond, VA
Co-founded VOKE, an online art education journal for publishing visualized research. Solicited and edited contributions, and developed and distributed promotional materials both online and at national and state conferences. Designed and developed website and underlying content management system for the journal.

Adjunct Instructor, Technology in Art Education – August 2012 – December 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Developed and executed a syllabus for an undergraduate course on Computer Technology in Art Education. Instructed teaching and studio practice with a variety of new media art forms and secured opportunities for student teachers to instruct public school students in an after school technology club.

Facilitator – January 2012 – January 2013
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Developed and led art engagements with undergraduate VCU nursing students at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as part of “The Art of Nursing,” a program to encourage sensory and critical acuity in nurses-in-training through experiences with works of art.

Teaching Assistant – Aug 2011 – May 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Forged relationships with area teachers to provide observation and teaching opportunities for student teachers. Observed and provided feedback to student teachers in elementary and special ed practicum courses.

Preschool Teacher – Nov 2008 – Jun 2011
College Hill Children’s Center, Lancaster, PA
Taught and planned lessons, art, and language activities for pre-school-aged learners at a Keysone Stars 4-Star, NAEYC accredited center.

ESL Kindergarten Teacher – Sep 2007-Jun 2008
AKCENT International House Prague. Prague, Czech Republic
Taught English lessons to elementary and preschool-aged learners in public schools throughout Prague, as well as lessons with adult learners.

Teacher of English – Oct 2006-Aug 2007
BKC International House Moscow. Moscow, Russian Federation
Taught English classes to a wide variety of ages and levels of learner, ranging from Kindergarten-aged to adult learners.

Program Coordinator, Tutor, Counselor – Oct 2005-Aug 2006
KEYS AmeriCorps and The Collegiate YMCA. Pittsburgh, PA
Coordinated CHANGES inter-school exchange and community service program. Provided homework help and proficiency preparation for students of several area high schools. Conceived and led art and other structured activities for school-age children in afterschool and summer camp programs.

2024 From Digital Literacy to Critical Digital Ecology: Curricula as Digital Places in Art Education.
Visual Arts Research, vol. 50, issue 1.

2024 Digital Place-Futures Outside a Colonial Metaversal Imaginary: Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley’s WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT as Critical Digital Place-Craft.
The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, vol. 43.

2024 Critical Digital (Counter)Placemaking, with Oscar Keyes.
Art Education, vol. 77, issue TBD (manuscript accepted for publication).

2022 Glitching Form: Subverting Digital Systems That Capture the Physical World, with Aaron Knochel.
Art Education, vol. 75, issue 4.

2022 Land-based Art Intervention: Disrupting the Settler Colonial Curriculum of Public Parks, with Michelle Bae Dimitriadis.
International Journal of Education Through Art, vol. 18, issue 2.

2022 Uncertain Matters: Material to Form Curricula for Digital Design and Fabrication, with Aaron Knochel. European Journal of STEM Education, vol.6, issue 2.

2022 Remembering Dr. Melanie Buffington:Three Reflections on Her Impact and Influence, with Hannah Sions & Carlisle Kramer. Translations, February 2022.

2021 What critical sensitivities to digital materials have we developed in the pandemic moment? How might we carry them forward?.
Editorial for Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education in NAEA News, vol. 63, No. 4.

2021 Visual Historiography: Drawing Time as a Method to Cultivate Varied Temporalities and Heterodox Avenues of Historical Inquiry.
Studies in Art Education, vol. 62, No. 1.

2020 Forms and Bodies: Using Digital Fabrication to Interface the Virtual and Corporeal.
Art Education, vol. 73, No. 5, pp.47-54.

2020 System Error: Versatility and Facility as Empowering Values for the Digital Arts Classroom.
Art Education, vol. 73, No. 3, pp.22-28.

2019 Book Review: Playing with feelings: Video games and affect.
Visual Culture & Gender, vol. 14, pp. 29-31.

2017 Chapter Staying current: Developing digital literacies for the creative classroom.
With Ryan Patton.
In Teaching Computational Creativity, Michael Filimowicz, & Veronika Tzankova, eds. Cambridge University Press.

2016 “This art is up here, but the students at this school are down here.”
Guest editorial for LGBTQ+ Issues Group in
NAEA News, vol. 58, No. 4, p. 27.

2016 Food Landscapes: Cooking, Community Service and Art-Making with Teens.
With Kate Agnelli, Elizabeth P. Cramer, Melanie L. Buffington, & Jessica Norris
Journal of Community Practice, vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205-214.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2016.1168757

2012 Bringing Forth Creativity: The Role of Art Education in Fostering Creative Thought, in Topics in Arts Integration: A National Coalition for Arts Integration

2012 The Arts =/= Creativity: Talking Points from the Arts Education Partnership Forum, in The VAEA Newsletter, Fall 2012

2024 “Thinking Beyond the Zoom-Room to Craft Digital Places for Learning,” NAEA National Convention

2023 “Creative Coding: Interactive, Critical, and Accessible Digital Artmaking,” OAEA State Convention

2023 “Culturally Sensitive Art Education in a Community,” with Kristina Fox and Stephanie Danker, Miami University Graduate Research Forum

2023 “Culturally Sensitive Art Education in a Community,” with Kristina Fox and Stephanie Danker, Miami University Graduate Research Forum

2023 “The Lederer Park Placards Project: An Arts-Based Intervention in the Colonial Curriculum of American Public Parks,” PSU Sustainability Teaching Roundtable Series: Cultivating Land-based Justice and Sustainability Through Art Inquiry

2023 “Telling Stories and Building Communities Through Data Visualization Research and Pedagogy,” panel, NAEA National Convention

2023 “Bending Toward Justice: Iterative Curriculum as Design-Based Research for Culturally—Responsive Teaching with Creative Technologies,” with Oscar Keyes and Aaron Knochel, NAEA Research Preconference

2023 “Curricular Possibilities for Culturally Responsive Teaching in Maker Education,” with Aaron Knochel, ART+ Conference

2022 “Critically Crafting Digital Places: Cultivating Critical Sensitivities to Unsettle Settler Sentiments of Digital Place & Foster a Virtual Class Community,” with Oscar Keyes, NAEA National Convention, 2022

2022 “Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education,” with Christina Donaldson, Andrea Elliott, Debra A. Hardy, Matthew Isherwood, Emily Grace Keenlyside, Sangmin Lee, Paulina Camacho Valencia, & Hsiu-Chun Yang, NAEA National Convention, 2022

2021 “Land We Care About: Ethical, Artful Disruption to Settler Colonial Territorial Project,” with Dr. Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Alexandra Russell, Izzy Healey, & Rosemary Aviste, S3A Symposium, 2021

2021 “Making Stuff that Matters: Material to Form Curricula For 3D Printing,” NAEA National Convention, 2021

2021 “Data Visualization Working Group Visual Art Renderings of Sound Data,” with Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd, Dr. Kimberly Powell, and Ilayda Altuntas, NAEA National Convention, 2021

2021 “The Art of Social Theory: CSTAE Digital Curriculum Portfolio,” with Dr. Cala Coats, Dr. Emily Hood, and Rabeya Jalil, NAEA National Convention, 2021

2021 “Critically Crafting Digital Places”, part of the Doctoral Research Pecha Kucha panel, AERI Symposium, 2021

2020 “Making Stuff that Matters: Material to Form Curricula For 3D Printing,” PAEA State Convention, 2020

2020 “Asymmetric Play: Feminist Digital Arts Pedagogy and the Gendered Politics of Video Games,” NAEA National Convention, 2020

2019 “Mobile Atelier for Kinesthetic Education (MAKE 3D),” PAEA State Convention, 2019

2019 “Creative Coding in the Arts Classroom,” PAEA State Convention, 2019

2019 “Display Adaptor: Confronting the Challenges of Exhibiting New Media Work by Students,” NAEA National Convention, 2019

2019 “Digital Arts Mash-Up: Experimentation, Exploration, and Play in a New Media Arts Camp,” NAEA National Convention, 2019

2019 “Lossy Compression: Gendered Elisions and Omissions in New Media Arts Narratives,” PSU Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

2018 “Creative Coding in Art Education: Computational Materials as Art Materials,”panel, NAEA National Convention, 2018

2017 “Creative Code: Experiments in Interactive Beauty with Secondary Art Students,” NAEA National Convention, 2017, and VAEA State Convention, 2016

2016 “Art Education Technology and Social Theory in Art Education: Connecting Special Interests,” NAEA National Convention, 2016

2016 “Ludic Pedagogy: Teaching Video Game Design for the Art Classroom,” NAEA National Convention, 2016

2015 “Ludic Pedagogy: Teaching Video Game Design for the Art Classroom,” VAEA State Convention 2015

2015 “Press Start to Begin: Game Design for the Art Classroom,” NAEA National Convention, 2015

2014 “Leveling Up: Art Educators Teaching Digital Game Design,” NAEA National Convention, 2014

2014 “What is Visualized Research? The Story of Voke, a Digital Platform for Art Education Research” NAEA National Convention, 2014

2014 “Press Start to Begin: Digital Game Design for the Art Classroom,” VAEA State Convention 2014

2014 “Learning from Digital Game Design: Developing Digital Literacies for the Creative Classroom,” Games+Learning+Society Conference 10

2013 “Constructing Arts Knowledge: Constructivist Art Explorations in an Inclusion Preschool Classroom,” Intersections: Arts and Special Education Conference.

2013 “Ride the STEAM Train with Video Game Making,” VAEA State Convention 2013.

2013 “VOKE: Visualized Research to Encourage Emerging Voices in Art Ed,” VAEA State Convention 2013.

2013 “Developing ‘Agency’: Pre-Service Art Educators Learning Digital Game Design,” Games+Learning+Society Conference 9.0

2013 “The Art of Nursing: A museum-based Interprofessional Education Model to Enrich Clinical Reasoning Through Art,” NAEA National Convention 2013.

2013 “National Coalition for Arts Integration: A Conversation Between State Programs and a Graduate Research Team,” NAEA National Convention 2013.

2013 “Learning from Digital Game Design, Part Two: Teaching Game Design,” NAEA National Convention 2013.

2012 “Is it Time for a National Coalition for Arts Integration? A Conversation Between State Programs and a Graduate Research Team,” AEP Spring 2012 National Forum: Are We There Yet? Arts Evidence and the Road to Student Success.

2024 Harlan E. and Suzanne Dudley Hoffa Dissertation Award in Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University

2024 J. Scott and Susan MacDonald Miller Center for Student Disability Services Disability Advocate Award, Miami University

2023 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education Runner Up, National Art Education Association

2020 Edward & Betty Mattil Award, The Pennsylvania State University

2018 University Graduate Fellowship awarded, The Pennsylvania State University

2017 VAEA Central Region Secondary Art Educator of the Year

2012 Graduate School Thesis/Dissertation Assistantship awarded, Virginia Commonwealth University

2011 School of the Arts Graduate Studies Graduate Teaching Assistantship awarded, Virginia Commonwealth University

2005 Samuel Rosenberg Senior Art Award

2004 Student Undergraduate Research Grant awarded for “Anaglyph Hieroglyph” project

2004 Samuel Rosenburg junior art award

2003 Joseph B. Ellis sophomore art award

2002 Harry Holland freshman art award

2020 Scholarship Recipient Exhibition, Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2019 Art at the Center: Transdisciplinary Creativity, The Borland Project Space, State College, PA

2018 Over the Rainbow: Queer and Experimental Shorts for Kids of All Ages, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 Homeostasis Lab Pavilion, The Wrong, Online Exhibition

2017 Prove You’re Not a Robot, The Gatewood Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, NC

2015 Sad.gif, The Temple of the Cosmic Mothership, Richmond, VA

2012-13 Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities

2010 “SyFy Fact or Faked, episode 11”, broadcast, featured video from Spotted Dream Owl Project

2010 Open Thread v.2 Pre-Release, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA

2010 Multimedia Festival, The Senator Theatre, Baltimore, MD

2009 Tav Issue 2 Pgh Release Show, Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, Pittsburgh, PA

2006 Halloweird, touring program

2006 CARTUNE EXPREZ, touring program

2006 100% Centennial, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 From the Underground Volume 9, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada

2005 Indie Cartoons for Kids of All Ages, Melwood Screening Room, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 Spectacular Spectacular, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 Little Golden Show, The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2004 The Pittsburgh Student Animation Festival, Pittsburgh, PA.

2004 "Transmissions From the Stupid," The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.

2004 "The Wind Cave," Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University. 2004.

2003 “The 33-Petaled Rose Channeling Ceremony,” Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University.

2003 “Retrospective: The Totally Awesome Show,” Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon
University.