Director, Creativity & Innovation at CC

Education

Professional Positions Held (selected)

Director of the Creativity Lab, Colorado College (2023-present)

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Education Department, Colorado College (1996-2023)

Faculty Fellow in Creativity and Innovation, Colorado College (2021-2023)

Faculty Research Fellow, Provost's Office, Colorado College (2020-2021)

Director of Museum Education, Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (2017-2020)

Mellon Faculty Fellow for the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Alliance (2016-2017)

Assistant Chair, Education Department, Colorado College (2016-2017)

Interim Chair, Spring Semester, Education Department, Colorado College (2014)

Associate Director of Education Programs/Director of K-12 Programs, Education Department, Colorado College (2003-2010)

Co-Director, Partnership for Civic Engagement, Colorado College (2008-2011)

Director, College Aiding Program, Education Department, Colorado College (1999-2008)

Honors

First Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Alliance (2016-2017)

Mortar Board Honoree of the Year; Honors Convocation, Colorado College (2006, 2009)

Order of Omega Honoree, Colorado College (2007)

Partnership Award, Center for Service and Learning, Colorado College (2007)

Service-Learning Advocacy and Support Award, School District 11, Colorado Springs (2007)

Teacher of the Year: Arts, Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs (1993)

Teacher of the Year: Pioneer Elementary, School District 20, Colorado Springs (1993)

Courses Taught at Colorado College (selected)

ED370 Arts Integration: Creating Critical Thinkers and Connected Communities (ED520/ED529 Teaching the Expressive Arts in the Elementary Grades for MATs) (1996-2017)

ED210 Power of the Arts, Theory and Practice; Cornerstone Initiative Couse (2004-2022)

ED478 Advanced Methods: Critical Pedagogies in Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction (2015-2016)

ED580 Specialized Internship Program (2012-2017)

ED120 Youth Empowerment (2013-2015)

ED556 Action Research for Secondary and K12 MATs (2010-2011)

Professional Involvement (selected)

Board of Directors, Museum of Dance, San Francisco (2022-present)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education (KC PIE), Washington DC (2017-2020)

Arts Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs (2004-present)

Supervisor of Secondary Art Student Teachers, Colorado College (2007-2013)

Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society Chapter Counselor, Colorado College (2006-2012)

Secondary Clinical Liason, Coordinator of Secondary Supervisors, Colorado College (2004-2006)

Committee Work at Colorado College (selected)

FAC Performing Arts Implementation Committee for Strategic Planning (2018-2019)

Co-Chair for Strategic Planning Subcomittee for Bemis School of Art; Implementation Committee for Bemis School of Art (2016-2018)

IDEA Space Advisory Board (2014-2017)

Strategic Planning Action Team: Center for Immersive Learning and Engaged Teaching (2013-2017)

Grant and Funding Work (selected)

Key team member on $1,024,000 grant: Humanities for Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practice and Social Justice, Colorado College (2021-present)

Supported work to secure and report-out on various grants for the FAC museum (2017-2020)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education Teaching Artist grant (2019)

Supported Advancement team on $1million estate gift

Special Projects (selected)

Researched, designed, piloted Visual Notebooks (VN), a pedagogical approach that decolonizes traditional methods of education by providing students and teachers with a notebook/materials to respond to a series of prompts at the start of each class through visual mark-making. A majority of students in nine classes that piloted VN (85%) agreed that the method contributed to their learning process and recommended VN be used in other courses. VN address CC’s Institutional Antiracism Commitment by introducing modes of learning that have been excluded from traditional, colonial-based academic inquiry, and by providing space that centers various identity perspectives as assets. (2022-present)

Created Multiple Narratives, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation to connect K- 12 writing to art while collaborating with CC students, local 4th/5th graders, docents and curators at the CS Fine Arts Center. Project shifts the act of looking at art from an art-historical model (privileging information about the art itself) toward more inclusive realms (focusing on student voice). Created to incorporate critical pedagogies that question authoritative voice, knowledge and cultural equity. Included substantial educational technology component that utilized the art museum to honor students’ voice and perspective (2016-present)

Presentations and Professional Development Offerings (selected)

Empowering Student Voice through Art, Crayola Webinar Panelist, International (remote) (2021)

Prioritizing Visitoe Voice NAEA Museum Subdivision Preconference Presentation (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives Quantum 10: Equity in Education International Conference (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives: An Approach to Looking at Art, Call 2Art Unconference (remote) (2020)

Arts Integration as Critical Pedagogy, for ED478: Advanced Methods: Inclusive Pedagogies in Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction, Colorado College (2017-2019)

Continuing Professional Education (selected)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education Meeting and Conference, Washington DC (2018-2020)

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) National Training Through Advanced Practicum (2018-2020)

Difference Matters, Dr. Brenda Allen, Fine Arts Center, CC, Colorado Springs (2019)

Alliance of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) National Conference (2018, 2019)

Professional Memberships

Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG)

American Alliance of Museums (AAM)

National Art Education Association (NAEA)

Colorado Art Education Association (CAEA)