dr. jessie l. whitehead

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contact information

Dr. Jessie L. Whitehead
Assistant Professor of Art Education
Graduate Coordinator
E-mail: whiteheadj3@southernct.edu
Phone: (203) 392-8913

education

Ph.D. in Art Education
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, Fla.
Dissertation: The Influences of Feminism and Ethnicity On Selected Women Artists of Color

M.F.A. in Printmaking
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Miss.

B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Miss.

Research Interests

Cultural Diversity
Feminist Theory
Curriculum

courses taught

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.

FYE 101 - Introduction to Intellectual and Creative Inquiry
The purpose of the course is to help first-year students explore issues relevant to a college education and new students at SCSU. It is to help first-year students have a better understanding of SCSU, discover campus resources, connect with new people and university life, and develop study and time management skills important to academic success. Intellectual and creative activity is the mode of navigation of topics that mainly fall within the following two categories: academic skills and university life.

Sample Conference Presentations

Theorizing Experience: Women Artists of Color, 2007 NWSA Conference, St. Charles, Ill.
Community of Imagination, 2007 NAEA Conference, N.Y.

Women Rights and the Visual, Summer 2007 Oxford Round Table, The University of Oxford, England

Semiotics, Art, and Experiences, 2006 NAEA Conference, Chicago, Ill.

Queer Folk of Color, 2006 NAEA Conference, Chicago, Ill.

Strange Bedfellows: Democracy and Lecture, 2005 NAEA Conference,
Boston, Mass.

Identity and the Creative Domain, 2005 NAEA Conference, Boston, Mass.

Sample Publications

Semiotics Process, Doubt and Pedagogy. In Semiotics and Visual Culture: Sights, Signs, and Significance, Deborah L. Smith-Shank, Editor. NAEA Press, 2004.

Democratic Community and Cultural Diversity, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Fall 2005.

Graffiti: The Use of the Familiar. Art Education, 57(6), November 2004.

Multicultural Teaching. Advisory NAEA, Fall 2004.

Book Review, Libby, G. R. Cuba - A History of Art. The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, 1997. NAEA News.