Cathy Adams
is a professor of educational computing in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. Her research investigates digital technology integration across K-12 and post-secondary educational environments; ethical and pedagogical issues involving digital technologies including Artificial Intelligence; and K-12 Computing Science curriculum and computational thinking (CT) pedagogy. Cathy employs a range of posthuman/postdigital methods in her inquiries including interviewing subject-objects, postphenomenology, phenomenology of practice, media ecology, and other new materialist and sociomaterialist approaches.
jelena aleksic
is a PhD student at RMIT University in Melbourne, and an artist/researcher in the fields of education and socially engaged arts practices. Her research explores relational creative practices between humans and nonhuman bodies of water. Her previous work with young people and students evolved around topics of visual practices and oral histories, storytelling and belonging with young refugees in Europe.
Carolina Bergonzoni
(she/her) is a dance artist, a somatic educator and practitioner, and an emergent scholar. She holds a PhD in Education, a BA and MA in Philosophy, and an MA in Comparative Media Arts. Her work, including her dance films, has been published, performed, and presented internationally. Carolina’s practices span between dancing, writing, and teaching from the body. She is the Artistic Associate of All Bodies Dance Project.
Rébecca Bourgault
is a visual artist, art educator, scholar, and community worker. An associate professor of art in Art Education at the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, Bourgault holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MFA from the University of Calgary. Her artistic and scholarly research has been exhibited and presented in the US and internationally. Her published work can be found in edited volumes such as the Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Art and Design (2019), Art as an Agent of Social Change (2020), Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education (2023), and Turning Points (2023). Current research interests include socially engaged art practices, arts research methods and pedagogies.
is a visual and sound artist, art historian, professor, lifelong walker, and mother of three, all roles that impact her current research on listening as an artistic practice. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering (Routledge, 2012) and Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (Demeter Press, 2019), co-edited with Charles Reeve. She has exhibited her art in solo and group exhibitions in the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. In 2016 she curated and wrote the exhibition catalogue for the first-ever retrospective of German artist Alice Lex-Nerlinger, hosted by Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, national board member of the Women’s Caucus for Art (US), regional coordinator of The Feminist Art Project, certified practitioner in Deep Listening, and Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College (KS/US).
Aurora Del Rio
is a multidisciplinary artist and Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University. Her research and artistic practice investigates how the reading of symbolic images interferes with the creation of personal and collective realities. Her current focus looks at the state of tension between what is considered ‘possible’ and ‘impossible’ in reading radioactive contamination. She is interested in the space of potentiality that originates when a definition is avoided or misplaced, and the liminal space of failure.
Christine D’Onofrio
is a practicing artist and educator living, working and learning on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. Exhibiting and practicing for over 20 years and as a pedagogue at the University of British Columbia, she activates artistic practice as a research method for critical inquiry, giving insight into new ontological potentials.
Hannah L. Drake
is Chief Creative Officer of IDEAS xLab in Louisville, KY, a dynamic artist-run nonprofit organization using the art of storytelling and community collaboration to positively impact public health and wellbeing. She is an award-winning poet, blogger, community activist, public speaker, and author of 11 books, whose work was profiled in 2021 in the New York Times. The (Un)Known Project—with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon and Ford Foundations—creates arts-based, culturally-responsive change initiatives, including artistic spaces on the banks of the Ohio River for racial justice and reconciliation.
is Senior Lecturer in Art Education and former Director of the Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Primary Programme at the University of Exeter, UK. With primary and early years expertise, Emese has worked in teacher education since 2005. She is particularly interested in researching the value of professional learning communities, artist-teacher practice, and the potential of art education to address sustainability/environmental issues. Previously, she was Vice President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD), Subject Lead for Primary Art, Craft and Design at Oak National Academy, a Member of the National Expert Subject Advisory Group for Art and Design Education, and a South West Regional Network Coordinator for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust. She is Co-Editor (with Nigel Meager) of the Pedagogy Volume of the International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019).
Damali Ibreck
has been a producer, curator and researcher within the arts education and community sector for 16 years. Currently a Doctoral researcher at Tate and Goldsmiths University, her focus draws on (in particular) East African diaspora experience to explore new methods of enabling equitable and reflective change.
Rabeya Jalil
is a visual artist and art educator based in Lahore. She received her undergraduate degree from the National College of Arts (2005), Lahore and a Masters in Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College on a Fulbright Scholarship (2013). Jalil’s creative practice includes painting, curriculum development, teacher-education and writing. She is a founding member and co-editor for the Journal of Art and Design Education Pakistan (JADEP), the first peer-reviewed publication about art and design education in the region and is co-director of Conversations, an online talk show about leading academics, curriculum design and teaching projects in art and design education. Jalil has presented at conferences globally including Lahore, Islamabad, New York, Chicago, and Istanbul. She has exhibited her artwork internationally. Currently, she is Associate Professor and the Head of Painting in the Department of Fine Arts at the National College of Arts, Lahore.
Estée Klar
holds a PhD Critical Disability Studies from York University. Her dissertation, Neurodiversity in Relation: An Artistic Intraethnography, is a collaborative work with Adam Wolfond, now a published writer and the first non-speaking
Linda Kourkoulis
is an artist, art educator, and researcher. Born in New York City, she earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. Linda is a professor and Curriculum Coordinator for the Art Education Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. A certified visuals arts teacher, she has taught PreK-12 in the NYC public school system and printmaking at the graduate level. She contributes to the field of art education with conference presentations, articles, book chapters, and as a journal reviewer. Her artwork is included in collections in New York, Athens, Amsterdam, and Mexico City. She maintains her printmaking, painting, and sculpture practice at her studio in New York.
David LeRue
is an artist, educator and PhD student based in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia. His painting practice explores the connection between landscape and the built environment, with a particular focus on how sporting events such as the Olympics permanently change their host cities. His SSHRC funded doctoral project, The Phantom Expos, explores the connection between sport, neighborhood histories and urban development, studying a proposed stadium development in Montreal’s Peel Basin. It combines landscape painting and public pedagogy to explore the perspectives of many stakeholders in proposed development projects. He is currently a painting instructor and collaborator with the Pointe St-Charles art school, a part time professor at Concordia, and teaches occasional workshops with Ross Creek Centre for the arts.
Stephanie Loveless
is a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. Her projects include a mobile web-app for geo-located listening, and sound works that channel the voices of plants, animals, and musical divas. Loveless’ sound, video and performance work has been presented internationally
Yolanda M. Manora
is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama where she is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Gender and Race Studies. She earned her PhD in English with a graduate minor in Women’s Studies from Emory University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. Her research and teaching focus on issues related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity in 20th and 21st century African American/BIPOC women’s literature, film, and expressive arts, and her scholarly and arts integrative research projects have been funded by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Fellow in the University’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI).
Katri Naukkarinen
is a Helsinki-based photographic artist and Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University. Her research in the field of contemporary art considers the limits of human vision and explores frequencies and scales beyond them. With the help of photography, science apparatus and poetry, Naukkarinen explores insights that might arise from within everyday environments, from the heres and nows, if that vision was expanded.
Rachel Payne
works at Oxford Brookes University as a Deputy Head Education and Student Experience. She was the subject leader of the Secondary Art/Design PGCE from 2004–2012, and since 2006 leads the MA Education: Artist Teacher Practice. Rachel passionately believes that communities of practice can have an empowering impact for art and design teachers by elevating professional voices, experiences and status. Research interests focus on emancipatory pedagogies in schools and higher education, which lead to transformative artist teacher practices. She champions visual methodologies and arts-based research, both her own and others. As a Past President for the National Society for Education in Art and Design and a member of the All-Party Parliamentary
Patti Pente
is an artist and professor of art education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Patti has been artist in residence at the Canadian National Institute for Nanotechnology, and continues to research digital and analogue innovations for art and art education. She is interested in contemporary art, with particular emphasis on educational potential within digital art processes, including Artificial Intelligence, digital ethical inquiry, creativity, nanotechnology, and GPS technology. The aesthetic nature of physical and virtual relationships to place is one significant focus in her work. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. pattipente.com
Nicole Rallis
is a settler of mixed European ancestry living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Quw’utsun peoples on Vancouver Island. She is a PhD candidate in curriculum studies and art education at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests include a/r/tography, poetic inquiry, embodied learning and land-based pedagogies. Nicole’s dissertation work investigates the ways that in-service art teachers in the Cowichan Valley are artfully engaging with the lands they work, live, and create with to think through important social, political, ecological and cultural issues. She is an editor and contributor to the book Walking in Art Education: Ecopedagogical and A/r/tographical Encounters (Intellect, 2024).
Roni Raviv
is a curator, creative practitioner and artist-educator within various cultural institutions in Israel, designing and facilitating workshops across all age groups, children to academics, within various cultural institutions. Her most recent exhibition collected live art lessons created by artists and designers.
Catherine M. Roach
is Professor of New College at the University of Alabama and a past fellow in the University’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI). She has twenty-five years of research and teaching experience on gender and sexuality studies in American popular culture. She is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction, including Good Sex: Transforming America through the New Gender and Sexual Revolution (Indiana University Press, 2022). A two-time Fulbright Award winner with a PhD from Harvard University, she has held visiting
Catherine Rosamond
serves as the chair of art education department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York City. She holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her art practice focuses on exploring the processes and materiality of paper, metals, wood, and other craft materials as a way to examine and consider their embedded meanings that supplement and support her artistic research. She has over two decades of experience as an artist-educator in museums and a community-based organization for individuals with developmental disabilities. She serves on the ED&I Commission for the National Art Education Association (NAEA).
Myrtle Sodhi
is a PhD student at York University in the Faculty of Education. She is an artist, writer, and researcher. Her research focus is ethics of care, Black feminist thought, and precolonial African thought and their application to re-designing systems and structures. Myrtle is a Mitacs grant recipient and is a nominated Vanier Scholar. She was awarded a Canada Council of the Arts award for her project, The Body Speaks, an integrative storytelling event reviving Afro-Caribbean storytelling through visual arts and performances. Her (research) creation attends to a process guided by trans-temporal collaborators who challenge ideas around relationships to art, productivity, and authorship. www.myrtlehenrysodhi.ca
Alice Wexler
received an EdD in Arts and Humanities from Columbia University, Teachers College. She received an MFA and graduated with distinction at the Royal College of Art in the UK. She was Professor of Art Education at SUNY New Paltz from 1999–2015 and continues to teach as an invited lecturer. In addition to numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, she has published several monographs: Art and Disability: The Social and Political Struggles Facing Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Autism in a Decentered World (Routledge, 2016), and an anthology, Art Education Beyond the Classroom: Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is co-editor of Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of Contemporary Art and Disability Studies (Routledge, 2020). Her latest monograph, Art and Resistance: Stories from the Stolen Generations of Western Australia (Anthem Press, 2024).