Faculty members
The Art Education department's full-time and part-time faculty explore all aspects of the teaching of art, from education in schools and universities, to bringing art to the community, to effecting social and personal change.
Full-time
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jessie beier
- Assistant Professor, Art Education
Research areas: Educational philosophy; research-creation; post-foundational methods; weird pedagogies; cinema, popular culture, media theory; sound studies; video, immersive installation, and digital media practices; AI, algorithms, and machine learning; energy humanities, extinction studies, (post)Anthropocene studies; queer theory; feminist STS; (post)psychoanalytic theory and pedagogies of desire. -
Lorrie Blair
- Fellow, School of Irish Studies
- Professor, Art Education
Research areas: 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 -
Aileen Pugliese Castro
- Senior Lecturer, Art Education
- BFA Specialization Program Coordinator, Art Education
Research areas: Elementary art education, early childhood art education, art teacher training, curriculum, imagination, children's books, watercolour painting -
Juan Carlos Castro
- Professor, Art Education
Research areas: 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 -
Sandra Huber
- Lecturer and Area Head, Interdisciplinary Studies
- Lecturer, Art Education
Research areas: feminist esotericism, witchy pedagogies, feminist material culture, occult media and communication studies, sleep studies, writing pedagogies, weird archives, disability studies, decolonial and critical race studies, posthumanism, interdisciplinary artistic methodologies with an emphasis on performance and ritual, research-creation, queer studies, psychoanalysis, poetics -
David LeRue
- Assistant Professor, Art Education
Research areas: Art Education; Community-Based Art Education; Critical Pedagogy; Grounded Theory; Oral History; Painting; Participatory Research; Research-Creation; Visual Methodologies -
David Pariser
- Professor, Art Education
Research areas: 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 -
MJ Thompson
- Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
Research areas: 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
- Professor, Art Education
- Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
- Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
- Undergraduate Program Director, Art Education
- Coordinator of the Community Art Education (BFA Major) program, Art Education
Research areas: 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
Part-time
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Andrew Forster
- Part-Time Faculty, Studio Arts
- Part-Time Faculty, Art Education
- Part-Time Faculty, Art History
- Part-time Faculty, Design and Computation Arts