The Art + Design Department stands with our Black students and coworkers in the fight against racism and discrimination of any kind.
Using art and design to communicate the history and intersectionality of human lives is central to our mission through education and civic engagement.
We are willing to listen, learn, and do better to reverse the systemic injustices that have targeted the Black Community.
We will do better.
The Student Advisory Committee is interested in your opinions. Email for an invitation to the next meeting.
Have you had an experience or an idea that you want to share with the Art and Design Department's representatives on the RCOAL Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Council? Do you have a concern that you want to see addressed? Please drop an e-mail on Fatih Benzer or Colby Jennings to share your story and have your voice heard at the College level.
2020-21 Exhibition schedule coming soon.
2019-20
January 27-February 22, 2020 – Exhibition
Zora J Murff, photographer whose work is known to deal with the complex intersections of race and American society, teamed up with Rana Young, on an exhibition with the theme of family in “Take It From Here” at the Brick City Gallery.
Departmental 2020-21 Visiting Artist/Scholar Series schedule coming soon
Visiting Scholars for ART 460: Critical Studies in Art Education, Fall semester, 2020
Zoom meetings are at 2:00-4:30 CST. Contact Dr Steve Willis for registration information
September 15: Teresa Torres de Eça, Ph.D. (Portugal) works as art teacher in Alves Martins Secondary School (Portugal) and as a researcher-collaborator with the Research Center in Arts and Communication /Open University of Lisbon (CIAC) and the University of Algarve, Portugal. She is the past President of the International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA), and President of the Portuguese Visual Communication teachers (APECV). Her research interests focus on participatory research, social engaged arts, transcultural educational projects, and art education activism. She edited the Portuguese visual arts education journal Imaginar (2000 – 2011), and served as the assistant editor of the International Journal of Education Through Art (2008- 2014). Currently, she co-edits the InSEA e-magazine IMAG and the arts education research journal Invisibilidades. She organized several E- books and written articles about art education. As a plastic artist, she has produced several exhibitions and conducts activist art in education international projects.
September 22: Mousumi De, Ph.D. (India/USA) is an Assistant Professor the University of the Redlands. Her research and practice involve using visual arts, media, and new media for peace and social justice education, global citizenship education, education for sustainable development, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and social development of minority and marginalized communities. Other research interests include arts-integrated learning, art-based social and emotional learning, indigenous and multicultural art, intangible cultural heritage, peace media, and community media.
September 29: Hazel L. Bradshaw-Beaumont Young, Ph.D. (Jamaica) is a Professor at Delaware State University and serves as the coordinator of the Art Education program and the Assessment Fellow for the Department of Art. She earned a Ph.D. in Art Education from The Ohio State University, an MS in Art Education with a concentration in Art Therapy from Buffalo State University, and a BA in Art Education, Textile Printing, and Weaving from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica, West Indies. Dr. Young currently serves as the chair of NAEA's Committee on Multiethnic Concerns (COMC). As a native of Jamaica, she served for twenty-two years as faculty at The University of the West Indies, Shortwood Teachers’ College, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, and Wolmer’s Girls High School. At Shortwood, she served in many administrative positions, such as department chair, consultant with the Joint Board of Teacher Education at the University of the West Indies and the Ministry of Education in the areas of Special Education and Educational Research, the Caribbean Examinations Council, and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
October 13: Ryan Shin, Ph.D. (South Korea/USA) is Associate Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arizona, former Co-Editor of the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Editor of Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement (IGI-Global), and Co-Editor of Pedagogical Globalization: Traditions, Contemporary Art, and Popular Culture of Korea (InSEA publication). He is the president of the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA), the recipient of the USSEA Ziegfeld Service Award (2013), and the Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year (2010). His research interests include global visual culture, critical discourse on minority visual culture, global civic learning and engagement, and new media and technologies in art education. His articles have appeared in Studies in Art Education, Art Education, Visual Arts Research, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and International Journal of Education through Art.
October 20: Allan Richards, Ph.D., a native of Jamaica, completed post graduate degrees in Mexico and the United States. He taught K-12, undergraduate and graduate students in art, mathematics, biology, and agricultural science before joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Richards has lived, worked, studied, completed research, taught, and visited more than 22 countries, which continues to influence his research and teaching in Art Education. Funded by a grant from the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Kentucky, Richards and his colleagues’ research focuses on improving the quality of life for persons with dementia and their caregivers through learning in the visual arts. His research has also focused on addressing issues of individuals who are deprived of social, political, and economic equality and justice. To build global consciousness and engender a more sustainable international community of fairness, justice, and peace, Allan Richards believes art education is fundamental and a powerful vehicle that engages students to foster and sustain human rights. Dr. Richards served as Assistant Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University, Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Chair of the President’s Commission on Diversity both at the University of Kentucky. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee for Praxis II Art Education, Past President and currently Vice President of the United States Society for Education through Art (USSEA), North America World Councilor for the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), and Program Chair and Graduate Advisor for Art Education at the University of Kentucky.
October 27: Carlee Bradbury, Ph.D. (USA) As the daughter of a book collector, she has always been fascinated with what people find precious and how they collect or archive these objects. Her research focuses on medieval art and culture, which allows her to investigate topics like historical collections or hoards of objects. She teaches art history as an Associate Professor at Radford University and frequently uses creative projects to help her students engage with the past.
Courtney Weida, Ph.D. (USA) Before starting elementary school, she remembers being obsessed with the idea of treasure. She loved tales of pirates and jewels and relished movies that included secret compartments and magical amulets. She also used to dig in her backyard, scour the basement, and sift through her mother’s jewelry in hopes to find some ancient, forgotten, secret objects. Treasure, with its preciousness and stories, is interesting to children with good reason. Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Art Education at the College of Education & Health Sciences at Adelphi University, she treasures the works of her students and her daughter, while as an artist, seeking and collecting continue to resonate.
November 10: Angela Saldanha, Ph.D. (Portugal) Ângela Saldanha has postdoctoral degrees in Digital Media Art at the Open University, Lisbon with Travelling, Between Travels. She holds a Ph.D. in Arts Education from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. She is a Master in Visual Arts and a Degree in Design from the University of Aveiro. She has several academic backgrounds in the area of multimedia, ceramics and contemporary artistic production. As an artist she exhibits her works constantly, nationally and internationally, producing works of an activist nature, of community involvement, and of critical reflection on society. She works as a volunteer in several primary and secondary schools in the country with special educational needs in the development of artistic pedagogical tools for a diversified, contextualized, and sustainable education. She is vice-president of the Association of Teachers of Expression and Visual Communication (APECV) and a member of the European Council of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA). She actively participates in national and international projects and events on Contemporary Art and Education, being a jury member of several contests of Artistic Expression and Election of the Creative Professor.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi tells the definitive history of racist ideas in America. Kendi shows that racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred and offers tools to expose racist thinking.
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Historian Ibram X. Kendi weaves a combination of ethics, history, law, and science to examine antiracist ideas that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F Saad.
Saad’s workbook challenges the reader to do the essential work of examining white privilege, what allyship really means, anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, cultural appropriation, and how to change the way you view and respond to race.
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it, Alice Procter.
Stemming from the development of her Uncomfortable Art Tours, Procter details the colonial history of our museums and the inability of the art world to recognize that it often unconsciously perpetuated the inequalities created by colonialism.
Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts, Aruna D’Souza
D’Souza reflects on three incidents in the history of the American art scene and lays bare how the art world’s persistent struggle with race has influenced how museums, curators, and artists wrestle with the notion of free speech and the specter of censorship.
Mounting Frustrations: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power, Susan E Cahan
Cahan examines three controversial exhibitions in New York’s elite art galleries that incorporated Black culture and art, uncovering the art world’s deeply complicated racial politics.
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates examines the history of racism and slavery and makes a case for how our country can begin to make reparations.
The Fight to Decolonize the Museum, Adam Hochschild
Through a survey of the Royal Museum for Central Africa outside Brussels, Hochschild examines the haunting colonial history of museums and the slow path to decolonialization.
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