For nearly two decades, I have worked in the worlds of arts & culture, teaching & learning, and the arts as a social practice. I've written extensively on teaching, reading & writing, creativity, spirituality & faith, food & culture, consciousness & self-expression. Explore select examples below:
ESSAYS | ARTICLES
ThoughtCo
2017 "An Introduction to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences"
2017 "The Power of Literacy Narratives"
BRIGHT
2017 "Why You Should Talk to Ghosts"
The Equity Collective
2017 "Toward a Social Justice Imperative in Education: When the Mission Alone is Not Enough"
Community Arts Network/Arts in the Public Interest
2004 "In Search of Story: Celebrating the Power of Story in India"
2005 "Mapping Within: The Making of a University-Community Partnership"
Teachers & Writers Magazine
2003: "Teaching Bei Dao and Pablo Neruda: Through the Lens of Leaving" v34 n5 p3-7 May-Jun
2004: "When the World is Too Much with Us" Spring
2005: "Museum of Learning: A Conversation with Steve Seidel" Winter
2005: "My Scream is Made of Whispers" Spring
2005: "Falling in Love with the Wind" Winter
2007: "Inventing New Forms: 3 Experiments for Teaching Poets" v39 n2 August
Teaching Tolerance
2005: "Witness" n27 p20-23 Spring
Children's Book Council
2006: "The Poem as Prayer"
Habla Best Practices in Arts & Education
2007: "Speaking through the Sun"
Teaching Artist Journal
2003: "Message in a Bottle: A Magical Teaching Moment at Crown Academy" Fall
2009: "Learning to Love this More: Mentorship for the New Teaching Artist" v7 n3 p155-164
ThoughtCo
2017 "An Introduction to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences"
2017 "The Power of Literacy Narratives"
BRIGHT
2017 "Why You Should Talk to Ghosts"
The Equity Collective
2017 "Toward a Social Justice Imperative in Education: When the Mission Alone is Not Enough"
Community Arts Network/Arts in the Public Interest
2004 "In Search of Story: Celebrating the Power of Story in India"
2005 "Mapping Within: The Making of a University-Community Partnership"
Teachers & Writers Magazine
2003: "Teaching Bei Dao and Pablo Neruda: Through the Lens of Leaving" v34 n5 p3-7 May-Jun
2004: "When the World is Too Much with Us" Spring
2005: "Museum of Learning: A Conversation with Steve Seidel" Winter
2005: "My Scream is Made of Whispers" Spring
2005: "Falling in Love with the Wind" Winter
2007: "Inventing New Forms: 3 Experiments for Teaching Poets" v39 n2 August
Teaching Tolerance
2005: "Witness" n27 p20-23 Spring
Children's Book Council
2006: "The Poem as Prayer"
Habla Best Practices in Arts & Education
2007: "Speaking through the Sun"
Teaching Artist Journal
2003: "Message in a Bottle: A Magical Teaching Moment at Crown Academy" Fall
2009: "Learning to Love this More: Mentorship for the New Teaching Artist" v7 n3 p155-164
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts & Learning
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning tells the story of Project AIM, the arts integration mentorship project of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This book offers an expansive model for art integration that places relationships—between people, processes, concepts, and curricula—at the center of effective teaching practice. AIMprint develops a theory of practice that incorporates both the varied and collective interests of teaching artists, teachers, principals, college faculty, program administrators, and public school students. The authors provide concrete examples of how to create a community of learners at every level of an arts partnership; access higher-order thinking strategies that link art and literacy learning; utilize engaging templates for the development of high-quality arts-integrated curriculum and instruction; and build reciprocal partnerships between colleges and universities and between teaching artists and public schools, in order to improve the quality and texture of education in the lives of school children.
BLOGS
TENDER POLITIC 2008-2009
I created this site for Museum of Contemporary Art as the lead facilitator for the teachers' summer institute entitled Personal Manifestos, Public Contradictions, based on the work of Jenny Holzer. Teachers examined the power of text as image to create art interventions. This site was updated as a live curricular document. The institute examined the links and gaps between belief and action. I researched and produced all content for the blog.
STANZAZBREAK 2006-2010
I created this site to share the best, most compelling poetry and participatory poetics residencies and projects with young people in Chicago and beyond. It was an ongoing exploration of why poetry and imaginative writing is a catalyst for school change, community development and human rights education.
TENDER POLITIC 2008-2009
I created this site for Museum of Contemporary Art as the lead facilitator for the teachers' summer institute entitled Personal Manifestos, Public Contradictions, based on the work of Jenny Holzer. Teachers examined the power of text as image to create art interventions. This site was updated as a live curricular document. The institute examined the links and gaps between belief and action. I researched and produced all content for the blog.
STANZAZBREAK 2006-2010
I created this site to share the best, most compelling poetry and participatory poetics residencies and projects with young people in Chicago and beyond. It was an ongoing exploration of why poetry and imaginative writing is a catalyst for school change, community development and human rights education.
CONFERENCES
2006 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, Portugal, "Autobiography as an Act of Resistance"
2009 Habla Center for Language and Culture, Mexico, "A Curriculum Manifesto," Idea Talk
2009, 2013 Harvard Arts in Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Continuing the Conversation
2004 Forging Identities, Linking Diversities, Katha Story Institute, Delhi, India
2004 Curriculum & Pedagogy, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, "Autobiography as an Act of Resistance"
2009 Southeast Center for Arts Education, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Teaching Artist Mentorship
2007 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, California
2006 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education, Portugal, "Autobiography as an Act of Resistance"
2009 Habla Center for Language and Culture, Mexico, "A Curriculum Manifesto," Idea Talk
2009, 2013 Harvard Arts in Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Continuing the Conversation
2004 Forging Identities, Linking Diversities, Katha Story Institute, Delhi, India
2004 Curriculum & Pedagogy, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, "Autobiography as an Act of Resistance"
2009 Southeast Center for Arts Education, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Teaching Artist Mentorship
2007 San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, California
LECTURES | TALKS
2017 The College of New Jersey: Q&A with Kenyan Artist Kawira Mwarichia, To A Revolutionary Type Love
2008 Harvard Graduate School of Arts in Education: "New Relationships in the Arts & Learning" -- with Cynthia Weiss
2011-present Goucher College: "Notes on Arts & Culture in Zanzibar" & "Project AIM -- New Relationships in the Arts and Learning"
2008-2009 Ontario Institute of Studies in Education: "New Relationships in the Arts & Learning"
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: "Teaching is Believing," panel presentation
2006-2008 Columbia College Chicago, Center for Community Arts Partnerships: Summer Faculty, Summer Teacher's Institute
2008-2009 Columbia College Chicago: Teaching Artist in the Classroom Guest Lecturer
2008 Eugene Lang Community College: Core Faculty for Arts Integration Institute
2003 Kalamazoo College: Hillberry Literature Symposium, guest alum speaker
2017 The College of New Jersey: Q&A with Kenyan Artist Kawira Mwarichia, To A Revolutionary Type Love
2008 Harvard Graduate School of Arts in Education: "New Relationships in the Arts & Learning" -- with Cynthia Weiss
2011-present Goucher College: "Notes on Arts & Culture in Zanzibar" & "Project AIM -- New Relationships in the Arts and Learning"
2008-2009 Ontario Institute of Studies in Education: "New Relationships in the Arts & Learning"
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: "Teaching is Believing," panel presentation
2006-2008 Columbia College Chicago, Center for Community Arts Partnerships: Summer Faculty, Summer Teacher's Institute
2008-2009 Columbia College Chicago: Teaching Artist in the Classroom Guest Lecturer
2008 Eugene Lang Community College: Core Faculty for Arts Integration Institute
2003 Kalamazoo College: Hillberry Literature Symposium, guest alum speaker