Join the School of Art Art Education program for an immersive, day-long writing retreat for University of Arkansas undergraduate and graduate students, who are at any stage of the writing process. Hosted at the School of Art Fine Arts Center April 4.
Created and hosted by Dr. Kathy J. Brown, Endowed Assistant Professor of Art Education and Director of Graduate Studies in Art Education.
AGENDA
| 9 a.m. |
Breakfast and Introductions |
| 9:30 - 11 a.m. |
Panel and Q&A |
| 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Breakout Sessions/Workshops Foundational SuperPowers: Paraphrasing, Synthesizing and Transferring Securing Writing Time Amidst Overwhelming Responsibilities and Schedules Writing From Lived Experiences Writing as a Creative Force of Action |
| 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
Sustained Writing Time (select one room to work in) “Talking it Through” “Quiet Writing Room” “Pomodoro” (Timed Writing Method ) |
| 4 - 5 p.m. |
Retreat Wrap-Up |
Workshops
Do you have a research paper or project in progress? Join Dr. Brown in this interactive workshop to explore foundational magic such as paraphrasing, synthesizing and transferring knowledge. We will unpack techniques and put them into practice!
Retreat hosts
Dr. Kathy J. Brown, PhD., Endowed Assistant Professor of Art Education, is a practicing artist, former
K-12 art teacher and current Director of Graduate Studies in Art Education at the
University of Arkansas. Her research areas include Afrofuturism, African-American
cultural narratives, pedagogies of place, antiracist pedagogies and arts based research.
She is a member of academic journal review boards and in 2023 was an Amon Carter Museum
Community Artist.
Kennedi Richards, MA Art Education Graduate Assistant. A native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, who graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Art
Education from Arkansas Tech University. At ATU, she earned an honors diploma and
was recognized as a Who's Who recipient. Kennedi has served as the ARED Graduate Representative
this school year and facilitated art-making during a collaboration between UARK, LifeStyles
and their program participants. She is currently a teaching assistant in an undergraduate
community art class and helping to organize “Ink and Inspiration: Student Writing Retreat.” Recently, she was a judge for the Scholastic Art Awards at Crystal Bridges, evaluating
submissions in Drawing and Illustration, Printmaking, and Painting. Kennedi is now
teaching printmaking at the Community Creative Center in Fayetteville and an artist-educator
in the 2025 Crystal Bridges Mobile Art Lab.
Speaker Profiles
Dr. Rachel Zollinger is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and scholar. She received her PhD in Art
and Visual Culture Education with a minor in Science Education from the University
of Arizona. She has worked extensively in community spaces, museums, and other informal
learning sites developing and facilitating arts integration curricula and environmental
education programming. Her research interests and creative practice focus on the entanglement
of social and ecological systems and the materialization of knowledge practices and
orientations on present and future landscapes. Recent projects have ranged from drawing,
digital media, sculpture, site-specific installation, socioecological intervention,
and writing media. Her current research explores drawing practices, multispecies and
place-based pedagogies, and the development of ecocultural identity in relation to
science, environmental, and art education practices.
Dr. Emily Jean Hood is an artist, teacher, and researcher currently serving as Assistant Professor and
Coordinator of Art Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her work
explores mess as a site where materiality and sociocultural perspectives on art and
education converge. She is an award-winning art educator and co-editor of the book
Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences
in Education (Palgrave, 2018). Her scholarship has been published in Studies in Art
Education, Art Education, and International Journal of Education through Art, among
others.
Dr. Hyunji Kwon is an Associate Professor of Art Education and a Faculty Affiliate
in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of South Carolina.
Her research expertise includes trauma studies and art pedagogy, informed by her extensive
community work with trauma-affected individuals, including women living in transitional
homes and survivors of sexual violence. She has received prestigious awards and fellowships,
is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served
on editorial boards for prominent journals in the field. Currently, she is working
on an NEA-funded project focused on social emotional learning, as well as her solo-authored
book on trauma and art pedagogy.
Register
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