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

 

 

GRADUATE courses TAUGHT

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.

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.

Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Study in Art Education

Course designed to help students formulate an understanding of culture and multiculturalism and how the concepts pertain to the teaching of art.

Issues  and Practices in Art Education

Seminar focused on varied approaches to issues of art and practices relevant to art education.

Art in Childhood Education

A study of literature and research in the field, and inquiry into methods and materials, designed to prepare elementary and early childhood teachers to educate young students in responding to and creating art.

Selected Conference Presentations

Contemporary Women Artists and Social Transformation, 2010 NAEA Conference, Baltimore

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