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National Art Education Association Conference (NAEA). April 13-15, 2023 in San Antonio-
​Peer Reviewed Sessions

​Countering Anti-Asian Racism: Telling Little Stories to Disrupt Metanarratives (Livestreamed)
Saturday, April 15, 2023 - 5:05pm-5:55pm

Co-Presenters: Dr. Patty Bode & Dr. Ahran Koo
Come hear stories of personal and classroom experiences that counter the metanarratives that fuel anti-Asian racism. Commit to challenging dominant majoritized views of what is meant by "Asian," thereby dispelling the model-minority myth, investigating diversity of cultures and languages, responding to visual culture and phenotype and physique presumptions, and critiquing minoritization perpetuated by classroom practices. 

This session is being presented live in San Antonio, TX, and will be livestreamed for virtual attendees in real-time. The livestream feed will become available at the date and time listed above. The feed will be recorded for post-session viewing.


Higher Education Forum 2: Academics Navigating the Job Market: Challenges, Responsibilities, and Nuanced Approaches (Panel)
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:30pm-2:50 pm
This session seeks to create space for productive discussion on unaddressed issues and nuanced perspectives related to the higher education job market from those on all sides of the conversation. 

Cindy Davis , University of North Texas, Texas 
Academics Navigating the Job Market: Challenges, Responsibilities, and Nuanced Approaches 

Ramya Ravisankar
Diversifying the job search process: Strategies for seeking administrative, non- academic, and private sector employment opportunities. 

Robert Quinn, East Carolina University, North Carolina 
The Water is Wide: I Can Cross O’er  

Dr. Peter Vietgen, Brock University, Canada 
Issues of Decolonization in the Hiring Process 

This session is being presented live in San Antonio, TX, at the time and date above.


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NAEA- Toward Disrupting Research Dispositions: Doing the Work of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Times of Precarity

I'm attending an NAEA Webcast this week! 

At a moment when equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives are being challenged in education (including studio art classrooms), this timely webinar features a panel of art education scholars who will share research catalyzed by EDI issues—including race, class, sexuality and gender, ability, poverty, and first-generation experiences. The panelists, who are all members of the College Teaching of Art Working Group, conduct research in a wide range of contexts and places. Each member will highlight how they attend to equity, diversity, and inclusion in their research practice, and how this impacts their teaching. For these panelists, “research” is understood as something learned by art education researchers in their efforts to grow and contribute to the work of unmaking oppressive structures in higher education art and design. 

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Women of Color in Design

​​On March 4th and 11th, I was part of an initial cohort of women of color who participated in an equity-centered design thinking workshop.

It was powerful, compelling, and overwhelming to be among women of color working to uncover and address issues of accessibility and systemic oppression that emerge when women of color are not involved in the process of co-design and co-creation of their communities. 

Here's more information from the partners involved in facilitating the workshop. 
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2o23 Columbus Arts Festival

In January 2023, I was honored to serve as a juror for the Columbus Arts Festival. The jurors for 2023 were Daric Gill, Lance Johnson, Char Norman, Tariq Tarey, and me. We spent three days narrowing down 800+ applicants, which was very difficult because all of the applicants were superb.

The Columbus Arts Festival will take place this summer, June 9-11, 2023.
https://www.columbusartsfestival.org/


Recently Published

​I contributed Chapter 11 titled "Kollywood Over Bollywood: Breaking Up the Monolithic Narrative of Being Indian in America" in the book Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm Edited by Ryan Shin, Maria Lim, Oksun Lee, and Sandrine Han. 
  • Book Description
    Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm collects and explores the professional and pedagogical narratives of Asian art educators and researchers in North America. Few studies published since the substantial immigration of Asian art educators to the United States in the 1990s have addressed their professional identities in higher education, K-12, and museum contexts. By foregrounding narratives from Asian American arts educators within these settings, this edited volume enacts a critical shift from Western, Eurocentric perspectives to the unique contributions of Asian American practitioners.

    Enhanced by the application of the AsianCrit framework and theories of intersectionality, positionality, decolonization, and allyship, these original contributor counternarratives focus on professional and pedagogical discourses and practices that support Asian American identity development and practice. A significant contribution to the field of art education, this book highlights the voices and experiences of Asian art educators and serves as an ideal scholarly resource for exploring their identity formation, construction, and development of a historically underrepresented minoritized group in North America.
  • Preview: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Counternarratives_from_Asian_American_Ar/h9iYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover
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Got the book in print! Thanks Routledge!


​I wrote a review of the film Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (https://icarusfilms.com/if-kentr​) for the journal Visual Inquiry
  • The scope of the journal is broad and is aimed at facilitating a wide spectrum of perspectives. It is essentially a medium for engaging the rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art that takes place in the classroom, studio, and beyond. However, the seriousness of journal is not out weighed by making critical topics accessible and readable to a large constituency of readers. It is a forum to be reflective on the process of creating and teaching art, embrace teaching art in a variety of contexts, engage art appreciation experiences, share scholarship in teaching artistry, and celebrate the rich traditions of art making and teaching.

  • More information about the issue available here: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/viq/2021/00000010/00000003

Work in Progress...

  • User Experience (UX) design research, graphic design 
  • Empowering non-profit organizations through design guidance and education
  • exploring online collaborative research/artmaking practices 
  • Research into the impact of the arts in healthcare settings
  • decolonial practices- specifically what is at stake when we diffract de/post-colonial theory through posthumanism/new materialism
  • Research into gift economies and alternative models to capitalism as related to art and design
  • interrogations into agency and authorship through artmaking
  • new materialism/post-human onto-epistemologies, entanglements, quantum entanglements (through Barad) and artmaking
  • material explorations/entanglements through artmaking
  • inquiry into material/materiality through diffractive artmaking practice
  • collaborative installation, performance, and sculpture
  • analog & digital drawings/doodles/thinking​