Current Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, - June 2015 Union Institute & University- Cincinnati OH Concentration: Humanities and Culture Emphasis: Visual Culture/Media Literacy/Diversity
    Dissertation: Engaging Diversity through the Grotesque Body: The Sociopolitical     Efficacy of the Grotesque Body in Contemporary African and Western Visual Fine Art   and Popular Media

M.F.A. - August 2003
Central Michigan University - Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Concentration: Sculpture/ Installation Contemporary Theory/History intensive
 
B.F.A. - May 1999
Central Michigan University - Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Concentration: 3D/Metalsmithing/Sculpture Minor: Art History

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Mott Community College
FT Professor of Studio Art, Sculpture/Foundations/Art History Fall 2016-Current
 
University of Michigan – Flint
Lecturer II, Visual Arts/Studio/Art Therapy/Online: Fall 2003- June 2016
Women & Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty: 2013-16
 
Delta College
FT Faculty, Art History/Studio/Online: Winter 2013 Adjunct, Art History/Art Ed/3D/Online/Studio: Winter 2004- August 2016
 
Saginaw Valley State University
Adjunct Faculty: Art Appreciation/Art Writing & Communication: Winter 2015- Winter 2016
 
Mid-Michigan Community College Adjunct Faculty, 3D Design: Winter 2005
 
Central Michigan University - Art Department Graduate Assistant (instructor of record): Fall 2000 - Spring 2002 and Spring 2003
Gallery/Curator Assistant: Fall 2002-Summer 2003 Sculpture Teaching Assistant: Fall 2002 - Spring 2002

DISCIPLINES
Fine Arts/Studio Arts, Art History, Art Foundations, Contemporary Art Theory/History, Media /Visual Studies, DEIJA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Visual Communications, Curating, Creativity Studies, Critical Thinking

  
PUBLICATIONS
  • Journal: Fiber Art Now. Fiber Reimagined II! - Summer 2024.
  • Journal: Fiber Art Now. Excellence in Fibers IX Juried Exhibition. Vol 13/Issue 1. Winter 2024
  • Book: Cover art & Chapter 1. Artists Treading Water: Defining the Flint Water Crisis Through Art. Ed. Gale Glover. – August 2017
  • Book: “I am Living…” and “Finding my place in this world.” Facing College. Ed. Debra Gibes. – May 2017
  • Journal: “Engaging Grotesque Figurations in the College Classroom.” American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, Issue 35.2. -- Summer 2015
  • Journal: “Nomadic Borderlands: Fullness, A Dream of the Ideal, & The Divine.” Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry. -- Spring 2015
  • Book: “With No Responsibility” (Stephen Colbert as Spectacle), Chapter 9, Lost in Media The Ethics of Everyday Life, ed. Tony Kashani and Benjamin Frymer, Peter Lang GmbH, -- April 2013.
  • Exhibition Catalog: “Weaving a Persona” altered Book, New Fibers 2006, Fiber Arts Network of Michigan,-- May 2006.
  • Exhibition Catalog: “Impermanence” essay, Impermanence exhibition catalog, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University – Spring 2000.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
  • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: The Art of Grieving. Countway Library, Harvard Long Campus. Boston, MA. - November 2024     
  • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and      Injustice, LookOut Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI – October 2024
  • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and        Injustice, SCENE Metrospace, Lansing, MI – October 2024
  • Upcycle Art in the Park. Shiawassee Art Center. Owosso, MI - August 2024 
  • Fiber Reimagined II! Gravers Lane Gallery. Philadelphia PA - August 2024.
  • 2024 Michigan Fine Arts Competition. Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.  Birmingham, MI - June 2024.
  • Excellence in Fibers IX Juried Exhibition. Fiber Art Now. Vol 13/Issue 1 - Winter 2024
  • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and  Injustice, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Washington University School of  Medicine, St. Louis, MO – September 2023
  • Birds of a Feather, Juried Exhibition, Riverbank Arts, Northbanks Center, University of Michigan- Flint - March 2022
  • Of Revolutions, Revelations, Resolutions (and of those left forgotten in between), Solo Exhibition, Delta College Gallery, University Center, MI – January 2022
  • Hostile Terrain 94 Opening, Status, University of Michigan Flint, Flint, MI - November   2021
  • Parallel Views, Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art, Lansing, MI – November   2021
  • Reuniting, MUSE Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI – October 2021
  • All State Juried Exhibition, Studio 23, Bay City, MI – October 2020
  • Art in the Time of COVID, NOSSMi/MTA 2020 Conference Artistic Expressions, Virtual – October 2020
  • Suffer the little children, Solo Exhibition, Art Reach, Mt Pleasant, MI – July 2020
  • Women’s Centennial Exhibition, Art Reach, Mt Pleasant, MI – May 2020
  • The 19th Amendment at 100: Women’s Voices Then and Now, Swords into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery, Detroit, MI – January 2020
  • CitenSHIP, Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti, MI – August 2019
  • Mott Art Faculty Exhibition, Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint, MI -- August 2019
  • Flint City Artists, MUSE Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI --June 2019
  • Flint: More than just Water, an Exhibition, Dudserstadt Fine Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI -- April 2019
  • Motherhood, Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI – June 2018
  • ARTpath, Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Lansing, MI – June 2018
  • Postcard Salon, Muskegon Art Museum, Muskegon, MI -- February 2018
  • Artwalk Central, Art Reach, Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mt Pleasant, MI – August 2017
  • Lifeblood: Acceptable Contamination Standards, Solo Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery,  Mott Community College, Flint MI – November 2016
  • 2016 Open Competition, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan – Dearborn,   Dearborn, MI –June 2016
  • Artists Treading Water: Flint Water Crisis Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Michigan – Flint, Flint, MI – June 2016
  • Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition, Marshall Fredrick's Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI –June 2016
  • Artery Allies: Matthew Osmon Invitational, Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI– September 2015
  • Donor Mural, West Midland Family Center, Shepherd, MI – June 2015
  • Delta College Faculty Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – May 2011
  • Mothers Womanmade Gallery, Chicago IL, - November 2010
  • Regional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition, Award, Marshall Fredrick’s Sculpture  Museum, SVSU, University Center, MI -- July 2010
  • 47th Annual Greater Mich. Art Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – September 2008
  • Second Skin, Solo Exhibition, Northwood Gallery, Midland, MI – January 2008
  • Nomadic Borderlands, Solo Exhibition, Delta College Galleria, University Center, MI – January 2008
  • All They Survey, Buckham Gallery, Flint MI, January 2008
  • This is My Story, Creative Spirit Center, Midland MI, January 2008
  • Liminal, Red Ink, Flint, MI – August 2007
  • 46th Annual Greater Mich. Art Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – September 2006
  • From Our Perspective Women's Art Show, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI – September 2006
  • FIBERPLAY (Invitational), Creative Spirit Center, Midland, MI – June 2006
  • New Fibers 2006, FAN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI– May 2006
    • Traveling to: Art Gallery of Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI – August 2006
    • University of Michigan – Dearborn, Dearborn, MI – October 2006
  • Celebrating Her Story, Women’s Educational Center, University of Michigan – Flint, MI – March 2006
  • 45th Greater Mich. Art Exhibition, Merit Award, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – October 2005
  • Her Body: My body, University Center Art Gallery, University of Michigan-Flint, MI –  March 2005
  • 12 Women, Delta College Art Gallery, University Center, MI – March 2005
  • Devils and Dolls, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL – January 2005
  • Touching: life, Solo Exhibition, Studio 23, Bay City, MI – January 2005
 
 
PRESENTATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 
  • Lightning Talk - South African Art Study Abroad Exploration. LAND Conference. Liberal   Arts Network for Development. Henry Ford College. Dearborn, MI - February 2025
  • Featured Artist Talk - Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice, LookOut Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI –October 2024
  • Lightning Talk - “Neurodiversity 101” LAND Conference, Online, February 2024
  • Emcee - LAND Conference Student Film Festival, Liberal Arts Network for   Development - February 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Facilitator - Community of Practice, Beyond Mere Compliance to Inclusion, Mott   Community College -January-May 2022  
  • Emcee - Women in Education Art Exhibit Program. Mott Foundation Fundraiser- June 2021
  • Presentation: “Creating an Inclusive Classroom” NOSSMi, Webinar – October 2020
  • Presentation: “Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment” AMATYC, Webinar – June 2020
  • Lightning Talk: “Artists ACTing UP!” LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for   Development. Online, February 2020
  • Panel Moderator: "Teaching Liberal Arts Courses During the Pandemic" LAND   Conference, Online, February 2020
  • Presentation: “Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment” Mott   Community College Center for Teaching & Learning, Webinar – May & November   2020
  • Presentation: "Pride Cupcakes", Lily Conference, Traverse City, MI -- October 2019
  • Lightning Talk: "The Water Within", LAND Conference, Ann Arbor, MI -- February 2019
  • Workshop Presenter/Co-Organizer: Creating a Gender Affirming Campus, Mott   Community College, Flint MI
  • Lightning Talk: “Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students   through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project”, LAND Conference,   Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2018
  • Artist Talk: “The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art.” 2nd   Annual Smallidge Family Speaker Series. Buckham Gallery. Flint, MI – May 2017
  • Presentation: “Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students  through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.” Midwest Institute for   International & Intercultural Education 24th Annual Conference. The Ohio State-AGI,   OH – April 2017
  • Lightning Talk: “Seek & Find: Connections”, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network   for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2017
  • Workshop Presenter/Co-Organizer: “Business of being an Artist”, Workshop for  students, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. –   February 2017
  • Featured Speaker: Artists Treading Water: Flint Water Crisis Exhibition, University  Gallery, University of Michigan – Flint, Flint, MI – June 2016
  • Course Module Presentation: “Contemporary Artists as Stewardship Emissaries:  Exploring the Aesthetic Interweaving of Cultural Norms and Local/ Global  Stewardship”, Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 23rd  Annual Conference, Schoolcraft College, MI.– April 2016
  • Lightning Talk: “Act! Do Something”, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for   Development, Grand Rapids MI. – February 2016
  • Presentation: “Creating an Inclusive Classroom” NOSSMi, Webinar – October 2020
  • Presentation: “Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment” AMATYC, Webinar – June 2020
  • Presentation: “Inclusive Language in the Remote Learning Environment” MCC CTL, Webinar – May & November 2020
  • Presentation: "Pride Cupcakes", Lily Conference, Traverse City, MI -- October 2019
  • Workshop: "Postcards from the Peripheries", Border Symposium, University of  Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI -- September 2019
  • Lightning Talk: "The Water Within", LAND Conference, Ann Arbor, MI -- February 2019
  • Workshop Presenter/Co-Organizer: Creating a Gender Affirming Campus, MottCommunity College, Flint MI
  • Lightning Talk: “Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students  through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project”, LAND Conference,  Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2018
  • Presentation: “Facing College: Engaging International and Immigrant Students  through a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Storytelling Project.” Midwest Institute for   International & Intercultural Education 24th Annual Conference. The Ohio State-AGI,   OH – April 2017
  • Artist Talk: “The Aesthetic Lens: Engaging Sociopolitical Injustice Through Art.” 2nd Annual Smallidge Family Speaker Series. Buckham Gallery. Flint, MI – May 2017
  • Lightning Talk: “Seek & Find: Connections”, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2017
  • Workshop Presenter/Co-Organizer: “Business of being an Artist”, Workshop for  students, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2017
  • Featured Speaker: Artists Treading Water: Flint Water Crisis Exhibition, University  Gallery, University of Michigan – Flint, Flint, MI – June 2016
  • Course Module Presentation: “Contemporary Artists as Stewardship Emissaries:  Exploring the Aesthetic Interweaving of Cultural Norms and Local/ Global  Stewardship”, Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 23rd  Annual Conference, Schoolcraft College, MI.– April 2016
  • Lightning Talk: “Act! Do Something”, LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for  Development, Grand Rapids MI. – February 2016
  • Scholar in Residence: “Grotesque Bodies as Demands for Social Justice: Art of Late Apartheid and Post- Apartheid South Africa”, Featured Social Justice Speaker: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Mid-Semester Residency, Union Institute & University – September 2015
  • Paper/Presentation: “Wangechi Mutu: The Grotesque Female Body, Despised and  Desired” Abject Assemblages: Grotesque Women, Rednecks, and the Undead (Panel), National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI. – November 2015
  • Presentation: “Ask me why I’m RAD” (Reading Across Disciplines) : Our Assumptions of Student’s Cultural Knowledge”’ Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 22nd Annual Conference, Ivy Tech Community College – April 2015
  • Presentation: “Exploring ‘My Place(s) in this World’ through making art”, Midwest  Institute of International & Intercultural Education 21st Annual Conference,  Columbus State Community College – April 2014
  • Paper/Presentation: “Watching a Revolution: Visual Media as Social Media Narrative”, Feminist Interfaces?: Digital Spaces and Social Change (Panel), National Women's Studies Association 2013 Conference, Cincinnati, OH. – November 2013
  • Breakout Session Facilitator: “Will that be on the Test?” Adjunct Academy, Delta      College – August 2013
  • Facilitator: Faculty training for LMS: Adjunct Academy, Delta College. – January 2013
  • Paper/Presentation: “9/11 Aesthetic Response: The Role of the Arts and Humanities after National Trauma”, The Twelfth Residency Conference “Suffering”, Union Institute  & University – January 4, 2012
  • Facilitator: New Student Orientation and Intro Technology Sessions. Delta College – May-September 2012
  • Facilitator: Faculty training for LMS. Adjunct Academy, Delta College. – August 2012
  • Paper/Presentation: “Watching a Revolution: The Power of Visual Media in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution”, The Eleventh Residency Conference “Interdisciplinarity  Engaging Ambiguity”, Union Institute & University – July 6, 2011
  • Paper/Presentation: “On how to be a ‘Real Man’: Sexual Identity, Power, and the  Media”, Humanities and Power (Panel) The Eleventh Residency Conference  “Interdisciplinarity Engaging Ambiguity”, Union Institute & University – July 6, 2011
  • Paper/Presentation: “Hair: biology/ language/ identity/culture/place (The local-made- global in the art of Wenda Gu)” The 10th Residency Conference “Identity”, Union Institute & University – January 8,2011
  • Paper/Presentation: “Creativity as a Diverse Complex System”, The Ninth Semiannual Residency Conference “Engaging Stories”, Union Institute & University – July 8, 2010
  • Presentation: “Happiness in Australian Aboriginal Art and Ritual”, The Ninth  Semiannual Residency Conference “Engaging Stories”, Union Institute & University – July 8, 2010
  • Workshop Presentation: “Digital Appetizer”, Michigan Writing Project, Education  Conference, Saginaw Valley State University, April 2010.
  • Paper/Presentation: “Caring for Adolescent Girls of the World: Education as an  Effective Tool to Combat Social Injustice”, The Eighth Semiannual Residency  Conference “Power: Personal, Private, Public”, Union Institute & University –    January 7, 2010
 
 
COMMITTEES & SERVICE    
  • Grading Conference Program Committee - June 2025
  • FATE (Foundations in Art Theory & Education) DIEA Committee – 2024-2026
  • LAND (Liberal Arts Network Development) Coordinator of the Student Fine Art, Graphic Design, & Film Competitions - September 2019-Current
  • LAND (Liberal Arts Network Development) Steering Committee, Mott CC Rep -September 2016-Current
  • Mott DEI Council -Teaching & Learning. Mott Community College - 2022-2024
  • Mott Commitment Thought Team. Mott Community College - 2024
  • International Curriculum Sub-committee, International Institute Advisory Board, Mott Community College - September 2019-Current
  • Art & Design Club Adviser, Mott Community College - 2016-Current
  • Take Back the Night March & Speak-Out Planning Committee, Co-Sponsored Event: University of Michigan-Flint, Mott Community College, YWCA, Flint Community Groups - January-April 2022
  • Faculty Recruiting Workgroup, Mott Community College -January 2022
  • LGBTQAI+ Affinity Group, Mott Community College -September 2021
  • Council on Diversity Equity Inclusion, Mott Community College - October 2020 - 2022
  • Art & Design Department Co-Coordinator, Mott Community College - January-May 2020
  • Inclusive Spaces Task Force, Mott Community College, - September 2019- August 2020
  • Learning Management System Committee, Mott Community College - 2019-2020
  • MiTransfer Pathways. Mott Community College Fine Arts Representative. 2019
  • International Institute Advisory Board, Mott Community College –September 2016-current
  • Reviewer, Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry – July 2013-July 2015
  • Global Awareness Program Committee, Delta College – January 2016 - August 2016
  • Safe Space Representative, Delta College – November 2013 – 2016
  • Faculty Inquiry Group: Reading Across the Curriculum (RAD) (Gen. Ed. Assessment Audit), Delta College – January 2013- August 2016
  • Emergent Technologies Team, Delta College – May 2009- May 2011
  • Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence Advisory Board, Delta College - January 2005-May 2005, April 2006- May 2010, & Fall 2011-May 2012
  • Student Art Exhibition Committee, University of Michigan – Flint – September 2004 - May 2005
  • College of Communications and Fine Arts Curriculum Committee, Central Michigan University – 2002-03


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
  • Cultural Currents: Education and Society in the Indo-Pacific Region. CAORC-AIFIS 2025 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Indonesia. Council of American Overseas Research Centers. - June 2026
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2025 
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education. Washington DC –      April 2025
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Henry Ford College,  Dearborn MI – February 2025 
  • ABLE Conversation Symposium. Virtual. Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts  Education. - November 2024
  • Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium. Virtual. Research Institute, University of the Arts. Helsinki, Finland. - November 2024
  • Art For Other Worlds. Online Course taught by Mitch Speed. Berlin Art Institute. –  August 2024
  • 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference. Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Waterloo. Virtual.-- August 2024
  • How to decolonize your artistic practice with care and solidarity, Online Course taught by Kathy- Ann Tan. Berlin Art Institute. – June 2024 
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2024
  • South Africa Study Abroad Exploratory Trip. (Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town)   
    Collaboration with Durban University of Technology. - June 2024
  • AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success. Philadelphia, PA –March 2024
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2024 
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2023
  • Education Summit. Course Hero. Virtual. - June 2023
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education. Denver, Co – April 2023 
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2023
  • Participatory Activist Research: Reflexivity, Transparency & Accountability. Practice As Research Network. – June 2022
  • De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Fine Art and Textile Craft. Create/Feminisms, Middlesex University. - June 2022
  • DEI Micro-Credential, Mott Community College - May 2022
  • Building Community: A Conversation on Engaged Art History. California University of Pennsylvania. California, PA – April 2022
  • Transformative Portraiture: Visualizing Pain, Death, and the Afterlife, Virgil Wong, Morbid Anatomy -  January 2022
  • The Academy of the Wooden Puppet, Bernd Ogrodnik, The Puppet Loft at National Theater of Iceland - September 2021-August 2022
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2022
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2022
  • 100 Drawings: Creating Under Pressure, Fred Liang, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Virtual – August 2021
  • Cold Glass Working, Flint Institute of Art, Flint Michigan - July 2021
  • Introduction to Puppet Making Mastery, Bernd Ogrodnik, The Puppet Loft at National Theater of Iceland - July 2021
  • CraftWays 2021: Tending to Craft, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, Virtual - July 2021
  • REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, Arizona State University, Virtual – June   2021
  • Virtual Exchange Training Program, UniCollaboration - May 2021
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education, Virtual – April 2021
  • Art School Pedagogy 2.0. Teachers College, Columbia University and Maryland   Institute College of Art – March 2021
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2021
  • NOSSMi Conference, National Organization for Student Success, MI – October 2020
  • New Media Caucus Border Control Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI – October 2019
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Ann Arbor MI. – February   2020
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education, Columbus OH -- April   2019
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Ann Arbor MI. – February 2019
  • Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop: Sea Level Rise: An Installation Workshop   on Climate Change by Lauren Ewing, Provincetown, MA - July 2018
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2018
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education Conference, The Ohio  State - AGI, Wooster, OH – April 2016
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2017 Mott Curriculum Design Workshop, Mott Community College, Flint MI – November 2016
  • Lily Conference, Traverse City MI - October 2016
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education Conference, Schoolcraft College, MI– April 2016
  • National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI – November 2015
  • Global Stewardship, Norms, and Values Conference/Workshop, Midwest Institute for International/ Intercultural Education, Curriculum Development Workshop – August  2015
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 22nd Annual Conference, Ivy Tech Community College – April 2015
  • ETOM Technology Conference, St. Clair County Community College – November 2014
  • Team Based Learning, FCTE- PD Seminar, Delta College – September 2014
  • Equality Leadership Colloquium: Issues in Higher Education, Center for the Study of Equality and Human Rights, Eastern Michigan University – April 2014
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 21st Annual  Conference, Columbus State Community College – April 2014
  • National Women's Studies Association 2013 Conference, Cincinnati, OH. – November 2013
  • Gen Ed Mini-Conference - Promise & Paradox: Conversations about Thinking, Global Awareness & Citizenship in Digital Age, Mott Community College–November 2013
  • Safe Space Training, Delta College – October 2013
  • Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Conference/Workshop, Midwest Institute for  International/ Intercultural Education, Curriculum Development Workshop – August   2013
  • OEL Course Redesign Project Workshop, University of Michigan – Flint, Fall 2012
  • ETOM Technology Conference, Web 2.0 Technologies, Northwood University –  November 2012 
  • Theory and Methods of Reading Across Disciplines, Faculty Development EDU Course, Delta College – Spring 2012
  • The Five Pillars of Islam, an Introduction to the Essential Teachings of Islam and a Cultural Exploration, Creative 360, Enrichment Humanities Class – Spring 2012
  • Online Teaching Course: CTL 202, Managing Your Campus Web Course, Union  Institute & University – February 2012
  • Online Teaching Course, CTL 102c, PD Certificate, Union Institute & University –December 2011
  • Advanced Internet Teaching Techniques for Teachers, Delta College -- May 2009
  • ETOM Technology Conference, Web 2.0 technologies, Lawrence Technology  University –September 2008
  • Boro Flame-worked glass (Glass Sculpture), Delphi Glass -- February 2008
  • Techniques for Critical thinking in students (seminar), Delta College -- January 2008 Classroom Management (seminar), Delta College -- January 2008
  • Kiln Formed Glass, Delphi Glass – November 2007
  • Interdisciplinary Teaching, Faculty Development Course, University of Michigan–Flint –August 2007
  • Internet Teaching Techniques for Teachers, Delta College -- May 2006
  • Intensive Course Development, Faculty Development Course, University of Michigan– Flint– August 2005  
  • Faculty Introduction to Online Teaching, Faculty Dev. Course, University of Michigan– Flint –August 2000

 
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS, & COLLECTIONS  
  • President's Commitment to Excellence Award - Interim President Shaunda Richardson-Snell Mott Community College - October 2024
  • Michigan State University: Installation/Sculpture: Pandemic: Weight-Bearer (BUT MYRIGHTS!) & Almost Immune (2022). Purchased 2024 
  • Michigan State University: Installation: Pandemic: Vestiges of the Unconfirmed (2023) –Purchased 2024 
  • Michigan State University: Community Project - Pandemic: What is the Weight of a Name...(2024) - Purchased 2024  
  • Asia Rising Workshop Module Development Grant, “Yohaku No Bi: Beauty of the Void.” Japan/Southeast Asia module for 2 Dimensional Design, Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education - June 2021
  • President's Commitment to Excellence Award - President Beverly Walker-Graffia. Mott Community College - August 2020
  • OER Adaption & Adoption Grant, Art Appreciation, Mott Community College – May 2018
  • Innovation Grant: Pride Cupcakes, Mott Community College, Flint, MI – May 2018
  • Award of Teaching Excellence, National Society of Leadership and Success, Mott Community College Chapter, Flint, MI – December 2017
  • Honorary Member (Student nominated), Golden Key Honors Society, University of Michigan-Flint, Fall 2012
  • Sculpture Award, “Regional Biennial Sculpture Exhibition (juried)”, Marshall Fredrick’s Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI July 2010
  • Innovation Incubator Grant, “Learning through Engagement of New Media and Multiple Literacies” collaborative teaching project. Delta College – Winter 2010
  • Green Arts Project Grant, Not my problem: The environment and other rubbish exhibition catalog, Student BFA Exhibition – Dec. 2007
  • Merit Award, 45th Annual Greater Mich. Art Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – Oct. 2005
  • Merit Award, 44th Annual Greater Mich. Art Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI – Sept. 2004
  • Best of 3D, 2004 All Area Exhibition, Studio 23, Bay City, MI – July 2004
  • Best of Show, 2003 All Area Exhibition, Studio 23, Bay City, MI - July 2003
 


COURSE DESCRIPTIONS (alphabetical) 

Art and Understanding: Course Theme: Socially Engaged Art. An introductory exploration of art history and the visual arts with an emphasis placed on the interaction between the practice of the visual arts and attempts to understand the human condition in past and present cultures around the world. Selected contemporary and historical issues in the visual arts will be examined through analysis, writing, and oral communication. Recommended for students wishing to fulfill the arts communication intensive requirement of the General Education program. Prerequisite: ENGL 111.
 
Art Appreciation: This introductory course for the beginner in art focuses on a study of a variety of visual arts through media, style, genre, historical period, and culture. The course provides a broad understanding and appreciation of artistic expressions from a wide variety of perspectives. Not an elective for art, design or BFA majors.
 
Artist Bookmaking: Methods of preparing images and text to be expressed as a bound book. Artists’ books, journals, electronic book works.
 
Art Education: Introduction to art for prospective teachers. Develops the ability to stimulate the creative interests of children in art. Acquaints the student with a variety of methods and materials adjusted to various grade levels.
 
Art Experience (non-majors): Designed for students not majoring in Art to provide an enriching experience to two- and three-dimensional media: to include drawing, painting, graphic media, clay and other sculptural media. It is designed primarily for the general degree student who wishes to have some art experience. There will also be an emphasis on art appreciation.
 
Art History: Prehistory to Early Renaissance: This course examines the history of art from earliest prehistoric eras through the early Renaissance period in Europe, the Mid-East, and Northern Africa, and focuses on painting, sculpture, and architecture. Students will gain an understanding of the art practices, art media, and art social roles across time and cultures, through the use of lectures, videos, images, discussion, presentations, reading, and gallery/museum visits. Students will develop an understanding of the creation of art as linked to the cultural and historical context.

Art History: High Renaissance to Contemporary: This course examines this history of art from the Renaissance period through the 20th century in Europe and North America, focusing on painting, sculpture, and architecture. Students will gain an understanding of how the art practices, art media, and art social roles evolved in Europe and North America over the last 500 years, through the use of lectures, videos, images, discussion, presentations, reading, and gallery/museum visits. Students will develop an understanding of the creation of art as linked to the cultural and historical context. 
 
Art of the Fiber and Textile: Introduction to the medium of fiber in a variety of forms, such as weaving, needlework, installation and natural raw materials; aspects of material culture generated by techniques for working in fiber art. Does not address costume design or other fashion-related art forms.
 
Contemporary Art History (online &F2F): Examines Contemporary Art using contemporary theoretical methods. Engages in readings, discussions, and written analysis of globally recognized artists, artworks, and stylistic trends.
 
Design 2-D: Introduction to underlying concepts for making and analyzing two-dimensional art. Use of design elements and principles with basic color theory to achieve specific goals for visual communication.
 
Design 2-D with Virtual Exchange Project: 6 week Collaboration with Screenprinting course at University of Sonoro, Mexico.
 
Design 3-D: Visual fundamentals of three-dimensional design. Basic experience in expression of personal ideas in form, using a variety of techniques and methods.
 
Design 3-D  with Virtual Exchange Project: 4 week Collaboration with Applied Sciences course at Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
 
Directed Readings in Media Culture (online): Independent study with advanced students on Media and Visual Culture.
 
Drawing I: Freehand drawing using basic drawing materials. Exploration of the figure, still life, other traditional and non-traditional sources for visual imagery. Emphasis on the visual concept and its relationship to techniques and materials.
 
Exploring Diversity: Explores themes, issues, perspectives and experiences related to diversity. Provides an opportunity to reflect and practice an interdisciplinary approach to the study of diversity in a global world. Credit may be earned in only one of the following: SSI 288W, SSI 289W, EDU 388W, EDU 389W, IHU 280W, or IHU 281W. (45-0)
 
Figural Sculpture: Life sculpture course concentrating on technical and artistic problems involved in sculpting the human figure in a variety of materials and employing a variety of sculptural processes.
 
Figure Drawing: Traditional life drawing course concentrating on technical and artistic problems involved in drawing the human figure. Exploration of a variety of media and compositional concerns with emphasis on the finished drawing as an esthetic statement.
 
International Studies in Interdisciplinary Humanities: Provides an interdisciplinary study-travel experience focused on examining two or more aspects of the Humanities in a region outside the United States. Involves reading, writing, and travel.
 
Intro to Art Therapy (Civic Engagement course; online, hybrid & F2F): An introduction to the fields of art therapy, Art as Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapies. Course considers the history and science of the practice, contemporary protocols, and basic techniques as they relate to other fields such as public health, mental health, education, and social work. The course is designed as an introduction to and exploration of the basic theories, practices, and populations prevalent in the fields of Art Therapy, Art as Therapy, and Expressive Arts Therapies.
 
Intro to Studio Arts: Introductory course involving students in several areas of studio art including (but not limited to) drawing, two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design using a variety of drawing, painting, and sculpting materials. Designed for non-art majors who want a hands-on studio experience; does not replace the foundation courses required for those majoring in art.
 
Intro to Visual Arts (online &F2F): Examination of the essential characteristics of the visual arts, intended to develop in the student a discriminating appreciation of these arts. Lectures, tapes, slides, reading, and gallery tours.
 
Mixed Media: Intermediate course exploring a variety of techniques and media, including collage and assemblage. Focus on ready-made objects as well as newly formed objects and their assembly to create innovative art in a sculptural direction.
 
New Fiber Arts: Intermediate course exploring a variety of techniques in fibers including weaving, felting, assemblage, stitching, dying and installation processes.
 
Sculpture: Investigation of a variety of media and technical processes, including carving, modeling, fabricating and casting. Emphasis on development of personal imagery and awareness of contemporary influences.
 
Senior Seminar (BFA): Necessary and practical information related to artists entering the art world. Technical items such as matting, framing, photographing and displaying art; writing contracts; and dealing with commissions. Senior BFA exhibition included as part of the course grade.
 
Studio Practices: This is a first-year experience course for Studio Arts Majors. It is an introduction to working in a shared studio setting, art and studio practices of professional artists, exploration of different careers in the visual arts, and exploring art resources in the surrounding communities. The course focuses on what it means to be a visual artist and related resources through discussion, studio tours, artist talks, museum lectures, and active learning introducing students to a diverse range of ideas, processes, and contexts shaping the experience and practice of visual art today.

Study Abroad for Art (South Africa): Introduction to visual art as a way to explore and communicate political, societal, cultural and environmental issues affecting both local communities and the global world. Course combines visual art practices, media, research, and projects, including a short-term study abroad experience. Students will develop visual projects that actively engage with selected local/global issues. Course includes preparatory assignments, and an interdisciplinary final project created in collaboration with college/university students of the host country. 

Visual Communications Theory & Process (online): Introduction to contemporary graphic design. Theory, professional practices, creative workflow, career paths, digital graphics hardware and software usage, copyright, ethics. Cross-listed as Com 160.


World Art Survey (online): Surveys world cultures and their art forms through time.
Focus is on the historic and contemporary cultural arts of Africa, of North and South
America.
 
Woodshop Orientation: The Woodshop Orientation introduces students to general woodworking safety practices and basic woodworking materials and techniques. It is an introduction to the materials, processes, and procedures that are utilized in subsequent studio courses. Students will learn to safely use hand tools, power tools and woodworking machinery, as well as basic woodworking terminology. This is not a proficiency course but rather is a basic introduction to the woodshop safety and processes relative to art/graphics class projects that utilize the woodshop facilities in the Visual Art & Design Center.