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resources for teachers
- Syllabus statements – reusable components for syllabi that point students to resources on-campus and provide information on accessibility and inclusion. Can be reused by VCU professors or instructors anywhere.
courses
recent graduate courses
- VCU ARTE 600/800 – “Intervening, Serving, and Engaging in Art Education (and Beyond)” (Service Learning Designated Course, New Course)
- VCU ARTE 611/701 – “Issues, Theory, and Literature in Art Education” (New Course)
- “What is the Service of Art Education: Critical Theory and Radical Communities of Practice” Summer Intensive Course, AALTO University, Helsinki, Finland
- VCU ARTE 703 – “Contemporary Philosophy and Art Education” (New Course)
- VCU ARTE 665 – “Curriculum Development and Evaluation”
- VCU ARTE 600/800 – “Art Education and Restorative Justice: Combatting the School to Prison Pipeline” (Service Learning Designation, New Course)
- VCU ARTE 701 – “Issues in Art Education”
- VCU ARTE 670 – “Technology in Art Education” (Service Learning Designated)
- ARTE 600 – “Gender and Sexuality and Art Education” (New Course)
recent undergraduate courses
- VCU ARTS 291 – “Examined Life: Rethinking Popular, Visual, and Media Culture”
- ARTE 402/502 – “Secondary Materials and Practicum”
- (Service Learning Designated)
- ARTE 409/509 – “3D Art Experiences”
teaching with incarcerated youth
As a core member of VCU’s Open Minds faculty I actively engaged with inmates (residents) at the Richmond City Justice Center as an instructor of art, visual culture, and art history. These experiences broadened my research to include concerns related to the school to prison/confinement pipeline and the creation of a service-learning course on that very topic where students engaged with classroom teachers to create units of instruction that addressed issues related to mass incarceration in the United States of America. After inviting Mark Strandquist to visit my class at the jail as a visiting artist in 2015 and participating in his Windows from Prison project, I became more involved with the Performing Statistics project at ART180 in Richmond, VA. Performing Statistics, a project by Art180 and Legal Aid Justice Center, connects incarcerated teens with an incredible group of artists, designers, educators, and Virginia’s leading policy advocates to transform the juvenile justice system. My role has been as curriculum coordinator to tie the works of art and issues explore through the workshops to k12 Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools. That curriculum was published by ART180 and is
available for download via the Performing Statistics website.