Faculty members

Full-time

• Lorrie Blair

  Professor, Art Education
  Fellow, School of Irish Studies
  

  
  

  
  Qualitative and studio-based research methods in art education, art-based ethics, thesis writing, teacher identity, teacher training, youth culture, visual culture, popular culture, photography, arts-based learning, body image, qualitative methods, pedagogy, higher education, teachers in popular culture, outsider/folk art, censorship

• Juan Carlos Castro

  Chair and Associate Professor, Art Education
  

  
  

  
  complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies

• Richard Lachapelle

  Professor, Art Education
  

  
  

  
  aesthetic development, museum education, arts-based learning, museology, viewer response, adult education, expert/non-expert, contemporary art, visual arts, public art, new media, exhibition, museum educator training, art practice, appreciation of art, artist residencies, qualitative methods

• David Pariser

  Professor, Art Education
  

  
  

  
  teacher training, arts-based learning, critical thinking, creativity, aesthetic development, perception, psychosocial risk, cinema, visual representation, evolutionary psychology, juvenalia, gestalt perception, cross-cultural aesthetic response, ethnography, child development, youth development, models of graphic development, teacher identity, gifted children

• Anita Sinner

  Associate Professor, Art Education
  

  
  

  
  artwork scholarship, arts research, a/r/tography, arts-based pedagogies, international art education, history of education, material culture, life writing, social fiction, spatial design of classrooms, curriculum theory, sociology of education, community art education, and pre-service and in-service teacher education

• MJ Thompson

  Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
  

  
  

  
  performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment

• Kathleen Vaughan

  Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
  Professor, Art Education
  Co-Director, Textiles and Materiality cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
  Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
  

  
  

  
  socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics, interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland

• Vivek Venkatesh

  UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
  Director, Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance
  Professor, Inclusive Practices in Visual Arts, Art Education
  Creator, Grimposium
  Director, Project SOMEONE (Social Media Education Every Day)
  Co-Founder, Landscape of Hate
  Co-Founder, Landscape of Hope
  

  
  

  
  radicalization, hate speech, public pedagogies, youth engagement, research-creation, social media, performance

Part-time

Retired faculty

• Linda Szabad-Smyth