Instructor:

“Public Art.” School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. (Third Year Course, Winter 2017).

Calendar Description: This course explores the ideas, designs, and processes of artworks and projects conceptualized to be situated or staged in public spaces. The objective of this course is to identify and investigate the contexts surrounding selected works of public art, which may include media works, sculpture, and landscape installation, from a global perspective.

Course Descriptions: This course offers a selective examination of developments in the site-specific, staged, and public arts. We will explore a range of artworks that utilize the physical space of the public sphere to underscore the larger political, economic, environmental, and social contexts of their production. This course focuses on critical reading and will explore examples from installation, activism, photography, performance and participatory arts, sculpture, exhibition practices, and media works. Issues covered in this course are organized thematically; each week we will address a different subject in order to explore the trajectories of public art during the modern and contemporary periods.

“Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century.” Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. (Third Year Course, Fall 2015).

Calendar Description: Selected problems in the development of Canadian painting and sculpture in the modern period.

Course Description: This course offers a selective examination of developments in Canadian painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, exhibition practices and performance during the Twentieth Century, especially as they inform the production and critique of the history of Canadian art. This course focuses on critical reading and will explore visual and cultural production in Canada during the Twentieth Century; addressing larger political, cultural, and economic contexts. The literature in this course is drawn from a range of scholars and sources addressing themes of nationalism, multiculturalism and immigration, landscape traditions, indigenous art production and representation, ideas of the North, folk art, environmentalism, gender and sexuality, war art and monuments, tourism and museum practices.

“Issues in the History of Canadian Art.” Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. (Third Year Course, Fall 2013).

Calendar Description: A selective examination of issues in Canadian art history and historical practice, especially as they inform the production and critique of the history of Canadian art.

Course Description: This course offers a selective examination of issues in Canadian art history and historical practice, especially as they inform the production and critique of the history of Canadian art. It will explore visual and cultural production in Canada and will address the larger political, cultural and economic contexts. This course will focus on art, visual culture, exhibition practices, and material and cultural production from early First Nations art practices to modernity in Canada. Although largely historical, each week will call upon Modern and Contemporary references in order to analyze the development of issues in Canadian art.

Teaching Assistant:

“Introduction to the History of Western Art.” Department of Visual Arts, Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario. (Online Course 2016).

“Histories of Contemporary Art.” Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. (2013)

“Appropriation in Art and Culture.” Department of Art, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. Marker/Grader (Online Course 2012).

“Introduction to Visual Culture/Introduction to the History of Western Art.” Department of Art, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. (2008/2009)

“Introduction to Visual Culture/Introduction to the History of Western Art.” Department of Art, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. (2007/2008)