Artfullearner

My Background

I am an artist, art historian, curator, and educator. My specific interests within the field of art include the integration of contemporary art within educational environments and interdisciplinary curricula. I have a Master's in Art History as well as K-12 Art Education. I enjoy a variety of artistic styles and disciplines, but I am most focused around art that is collaborative and socially engaged. I also have been a leading scholar and curator of American Figurative Expressionist art, especially art from Provincetown, MA and New York City during the mid to late 1950s and early 1960s. As an art educator, I am drawn to the theories and methodologies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Viktor Lowenfeld.

My Aims

My goals within Wikipedia are:

Research, suggest, write, and contribute to articles featuring women, BIPOC, and religious minority artists.
To strive to maintain and promote equity and social justice within the arts and education fields.
Make learning more accessible to diverse populations.
Ensure that articles are neutral, non-biased and represent an intersectional perspective.

Reading List

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire)
Experience and Education (Dewey)
Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)
Education for Socially Engaged Art (Helguera)
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play (Resnick)
Educated (Westover)
Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratislav and Franz Kafka (Kamenetz)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (Adams)

Wikipedia subjects of interest

Artists

Sandy Skoglund (Contemporary conceptual artist) ✓
Leslie Anne Anderson (Cuban-American museum curator and art historian that specializes in Scandinavian art and both European and American regional artists). ✓
Jane Benson (British-American conceptual artist) ✓
Seph Rodney (Jamaican-American art critic and writer).
Alice Taylor Gafford (1886-1981) (African-American artist and art educator) - Article could use more work/research.
Lizz Brady/Broken Grey Wires (U.K. artist who makes work about mental health and the stigma around mental illness).
Stephanie H. Shih (ceramic artist who addresses the Asian diaspora by sculpting mass produced pantry items). ✓
Lee Brozgol (1941 - 2021) (artist and social worker). ✓
Peter Passuntino (American figurative expressionist painter).
Jay Milder (American figurative expressionist painter).
Irving Kriesberg (1919 - 2009) (American figurative expressionist painter).
Lester Johnson (1919 - 2010) (American figurative expressionist painter) - Article needs a lot of work/research, formatting, and more citations.
Selina Trieff (1934 - 2015) (American figurative expressionist painter) - Needs formatting/editing/more citations. ✓ (W.I.P)
Elvira Leite (Portuguese artist and arts educator).
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (American artist collective and educators) - Articles needs more work/research and updates to reflect the current work of Studio K.O.S.
Ted Stamm (American artist) - Needs more artwork and career related content.
Susan James (Musician) - American folk/rock musician.
Raque Ford (American contemporary artist, exhibited in the 2021 edition of MoMA PS.1's Greater New York)
Die Jim Crow (the first record label in America run by formerly and currently incarcerated individuals).
Yasmin Williams (American guitarist/multi-instrumentalist) - Needs more content.
Bettina Grossman (American artist) ✓ - Needs more content in light of the artist's legacy and posthumous resurgence.
Judy Gelles (American photographer)
Harold Zimmerman (Artist and Arts Educator)

Art Movements/Styles/Concepts

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Draft:Susan James (musician).