Curricular Design

As an Associate Professor at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design I have had the opportunity to develop new courses for the Fine Arts Department. Within Fine Arts, we have a unique series of courses called Fine Arts Studio that combine liberal arts methodologies for research, creative writing, critical thinking, with studio processes and techniques. All are 3000-level courses for Juniors or Seniors: Below are new courses and existing courses that I revised.

Painting as Object (Fall 2025):

Working with the Collection (Spring 2025) :
This class was last taught in 2019 and had been specifically tied to one external institutional partner in the past. I broadened the scope of the course to have two tracks: 1) researching, curating and responding to one collection – The MCAD Collection; 2) researching how other local collections of plants, books, prints, objects are curated and organized. The students in the class are all avid collectors, so I wanted them to spend more time thinking about collection as an Artistic Practice, this idea was really solidified by our field trips to see “Ways of Knowing” at the Walker Art Center and our visit to the Tretter Collection at the UMN Andersen Library.

Art and Ecological Futures (Fall 2023):

REMIX: Quotation and Appropriation (Spring 23):
I created all new projects, content and revised course outcomes for this class.
> Create two new lectures:
> “Quilting as Collage”
> “How Hip Hop Sampling Impacted Art in 1980s”
> Completed four demos with new techniques to share with students: Monoprints with Water-
based Inks, Image Transfers with Acrylic, Scanograms, Tape Transfers and Collage Techniques.