Research
My primary area of research is artists outside the margins, which includes women artists, and artists of color. My investigation looks at the role these artists play in society, and the need to more fully integrate them into classroom art curricula. Aspects of my research have resulted in the article, "The Invisibility of Blackness" published in Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association, and "Theorizing Experience: Four Women Artists of Color" in Studies in Art Education.
Contact Information
Dr. Jessie L. Whitehead
E-mail: whiteheadj3@southernct.edu
Phone: (203) 392-8913
Education
Ph.D., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
M.F.A., Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
B.F.A., Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS
courses
ART 270 - Introduction to Art Education
An undergraduate-level introduction to the foundation of the field of art education. History, research, and theory of art education in regards to child development in art are investigated.
ART 371 - Art Education (Secondary Level)
An undergraduate course that involves planning and developing specific strategies and procedures for implementing art instruction at the upper middle and secondary school levels. Art materials, equipment, techniques, and subject matter appropriate to these age groups are investigated.
ART 573 - Women, Art, and Education
A seminar and cooperative learning course which addresses issues of sexism, racism, cultural bias, elitism, historical and contemporary perspectives of women's contributions to the arts as artists, educators, philosophers, historians, patrons, and collectors.
ART 572 - Seminar In Secondary Art Education
Issues and related studio/aesthetic experiences in teaching adolescent art including teaching strategies, current research, resources, subject-content, creativity, aesthetics, and the role of the secondary art teacher in society.
Selected Conference Presentations
Cultural Heritage, Stereotypes, Racism, Environment: Big Ideas, 2008 NAEA Conference, New Orleans
Women Rights and the Visual, Summer 2007 Oxford Round Table, The University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Theorizing Experience: Women Artists of Color, 2007 NWSA Conference, St. Charles, IL
Community of Imagination, 2007 NAEA Conference, NY
Semiotics, Art, and Experiences, 2006 NAEA Conference, Chicago, IL
Queer Folk of Color, 2006 NAEA Conference, Chicago, IL
Semiotics, Art, and Experiences, 2006 NAEA Conference, Chicago, IL
Strange Bedfellows: Democracy and Lecture, 2005 NAEA Conference, Boston, MA
Identity and the Creative Domain, 2005 NAEA Conference, Boston, MA
The Invisibility of Blackness
