Conference Presentations on Education, Art and Learning
List of presentations given at national and international conferences.
Exhibition Project “QR_U (an open school) ~ Questions, Responses & Unofficial Conversations”
An interactive social practice art and exhibition project I created with fellow artists Lois Klassen, Elisa Yon, and Adam Stenhouse. The project existed as a 10-day school-within-a-school at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in December, 2011 and online at http://qruopenschool.ca/. Participants were presented with a series of questions about their relationships with art, learning and technology.
Journal article “Opening up to a Digital Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy” (2011)
In this article co-written with Jody Baker, we argue for the integration of open source culture and current remix practices into art and media curriculum. We reflect upon previous online teaching experiences as we develop a pedagogical approach for a course examining remix culture.
Journal Article “Performing an Intervention in the Space Between Art and Education” (2014)
This article in the International Journal of Education through Art discusses an artist-teacher residency staged at a university that examined relations between art, learning and teaching. It begins with a short discussion of the pedagogical turn in contemporary art and interventionist art practices before describing the artist-teacher residency. This residency was initiated to examine how teacher candidates come to understand pedagogy in their field.
InSEA Doctoral Research Award in Art Education (2017)
Awarded from the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA). The award recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of visual arts education.
PhD Dissertation Award, Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA) (2014)
Annual blind review award for best 2013-2014 doctoral thesis in matters of interest to visual art education in Canada.
PhD Dissertation “Educating Artists Beyond Digital: Understanding network art & learning as contemporary pedagogy”
In this research I examine the notion of ‘network’ in art, learning, and teaching by examining the practices of seven contemporary artists who also teach in universities.
Journal Article “Shifting the Curriculum: Decentralization in the Art Education Experience” (2011)
This article published in the journal Art Education examines the decentralized approach to art curriculum from a pedagogical point of view, acknowledging advantages and disadvantages for art educators, and its contribution to a curriculum that captures the current cultural aesthetic experience.