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EDUCATION

Ph.D. (2016) Curriculum Studies (Art Education), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

M.A. (2008) Art Education, Studio Inquiry, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

B.F.A. (2002) Art Education, with Distinction, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

D.E.C. (1997) Fine Arts (Diplôme d'études collégiales/College Diploma), John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC.

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2019 - Present Assistant Teaching Professor, Art Education

Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria

2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Resident Artist

Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, UBC

2018 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Lead, Rural eMentoring BC, Rural Education Action Plan (REAP) Initiative

Faculty of Pharmaceutical/Health Sciences, UBC

2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Lead, Implementing & Evaluating the PharmD Formative Assessment programme (PY2/PY3)

Office of Educational Support and Development, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

2012 - 2015 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Rita L. Irwin

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and The Teacher Education Office, UBC

2013 - 2015 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Ruth Beer

Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

2013 - 2015 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Kit Grauer

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC

2012 - 2013 Graduate Academic Assistant for The Heartful Pedagogy Conference: In Honour of Kit Grauer

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC

2009 - 2010 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Rita L. Irwin

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC

2006 - 2007 Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. David Pariser

Department of Art Education, Concordia University

GRANTS & AWARDS

2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award, The Canadian Society of Education through Art (CSEA)

2018 Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (ADGPS) Travel Award, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award, The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group, The American

Educational Research Association (AERA)

2017 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education, National Art Education Association (NAEA), Runner-Up Award

2015 The Gordon and Marion Smith Prize in Art Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, UBC

2014 Dean of Education Scholarship, Faculty of Education Graduate Student Endowed Awards, UBC

2014 Penny Gouldstone Prize in Art Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, UBC

2014 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant, Office of Graduate Programs and Research, UBC

2013 Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Arts-Based Conceptions of Water Competition, Finalist, UBC

2013 Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, UBC

2013 The Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy Travel Award, UBC

2013 Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Education, UBC

2013 Graduate Student Travel Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC

2012 Faculty of Education Graduate Award, PhD program, UBC

2011 Faculty of Education Graduate Award, PhD program, UBC

2010 Faculty of Education Graduate Award, PhD program, UBC

2009 Faculty of Education Graduate Award, PhD program, UBC

2009 Graduate Entrance Scholarship, PhD program, UBC

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

LeBlanc, N. & Irwin, R. L. (In Press). A/r/tography. In Noblit, G. (Ed.). Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Expected December 2019]

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (In Press). A Cosmopolitan Imagination: Reimagining National Identity through Art. Sunny/T Origins: Finnish Studies in Art Education journal. [Expected August 2019]

LeBlanc, N., Triggs, V., & Irwin, R. L. (In Press). Sub/versing Mentoring Expectations: Duration, Discernment, Diffraction. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. [Expected August 2019]

LeBlanc, N. (2019). “The 'Dream Scene': Exploring Participatory Socially Engaged Art Practices through Arts Based Educational Research”. The International Journal of Art and Design Education.

Hicks, V., & LeBlanc, N. (2019). Studio Conversations. Visual Arts Research. (Ed., Lillian Lewis).

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. (2019). A/r/tography. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2018). Teachers storying themselves into teaching: Comics as an emergent and relational form of research. LEARNing Landscapes, 11(2), 223–240.

LeBlanc, N., Davidson, S. F., Ryu, J., & Irwin, R. L. (2015). Becoming through A/r/tography, Autobiography and Stories in Motion.

The International Journal of Education through Art. Special Issue on Education through Art: Practice-Based Research in Art and Design,

11(3), 355-374.

LeBlanc, N. (2014). In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Beyond Representations of School Closure. Journal of Cultural Research in

Art Education, 31(Summer, 2014), 55-88.

LeBlanc, N. (2013). Photographing the Abandoned School. Canadian Art Teacher, 11(12), p. 48-53.

Szabad-Smyth, L., Chalas, A., Duval, C., Goodfrien, T., Holt, A., Largo, M., LeBlanc, N., & Reid, N. (2005). Personal narratives of spaces,

places and displacement as revealed in studio works. Canadian Art Teacher, 5(1), p. 6-15.

Book Chapters

LeBlanc, N., Davidson, S. F., Ryu, J., & Irwin, R. L. (2019). Becoming through a/r/tography, autobiography and stories in motion. In M. Morimoto, M. Sato & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), [A/r/tography: A Practice Based Research Methodology]. Japan.

LeBlanc, N. (2019). Performing interventions: A practice-led approach to doctoral research. In A. Sinner & R. L. Irwin (Eds.), Provoke: International perspectives on visual arts dissertations in education. Lapland University Press.

Boulton, A., Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2018). Encountering research as creative practice: Participants giving voice to the research. In L. Knight & A. Lasczik Cutcher (Eds.), Arts-research-education: Connections and directions (pp. 31-60). Springer Series: Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research.

LeBlanc, N. (2017). The abandoned school as an anomalous place of learning: A practice-led approach to doctoral research. In R. Siegesmund & M. Cahnmann-Taylor (Eds.), Arts-based research in education: Foundations for practice (2nd ed., pp. 174-189). Routledge.

Irwin, R. L., & LeBlanc, N., Ryu, J., & Belliveau, G. (2017). A/r/tography as living inquiry. In P. Leavy (Ed.), Handbook of arts based research (pp. 37-53). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Boulton, A., Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2016). Interventions and intraventions of practice based research. In P. Burnard, E. Mackinlay & K. Powell (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts research (pp. 248-258). New York, NY: Routledge.

Conference Proceedings

LeBlanc, N. (2015). In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Intervention as Innovation in Arts-Based Educational Research. In R. Marín Viadel,

J. Roldán & J. Mena de Torres (Eds.), (Re)presentations, glances, reflections in arts-based research and artistic research (pp. 155-169).

Proceedings from The 2nd Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research: Insights and Critical Reflections on Issues and Methodologies.

Granada: The University of Granada.

Irwin, R. L., Boulton-Funke, A., & LeBlanc, N. (2015). Radicant Art Teacher Education. In R. Marín Viadel, J. Roldán & F. Pérez Martín (Eds.),

Strategies, techniques and instruments in arts-based research and artistic research (pp. 25-44). Proceedings from The 2nd Conference on Arts-Based

and Artistic Research: Insights and Critical Reflections on Issues and Methodologies. Granada: University of Granada.

Published Artwork

LeBlanc, N. (2019). Arts-Based Research: A/r/tography. (G. Noblit, Ed.), Oxford University Press. 1 Digital Print.

LeBlanc, N. (2019). Provoke: International perspectives on visual arts dissertations in education (A. Sinner & R. L. Irwin, Eds.), Lapland University Press. Digital Prints: 217, 219, 220, 221, 222.

LeBlanc, N. (2017). Handbook of arts-based research (P. Leavy, Ed.), Guilford Press. Digital Print: 49.

LeBlanc, N. (2017). Arts-based research in education: Foundations for practice (2nd ed., R. Siegesmund & M. Cahnmann-Taylor, Eds.), Routledge. Digital Prints: 175, 177, 182.

LeBlanc, N. (2015). The International Journal of Education through Art. (S. MacDonald OBE & J. Malins, Eds.). Digital Prints 360, 365, 369.

LeBlanc, N. (2014). Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. (E. Garber, Ed.), 31. Digital Prints 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 72, 77.

LeBlanc, N. (2013). Canadian Art Teacher. (M.J. Emme, Ed.), 11(12). Digital Prints 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53.

LeBlanc, N. (2010). Conversations on Curriculum & Pedagogy. (W. F. Pinar & K. Meyer, Eds.), Vol. 4 (1). Cover image and Digital Prints 34, 35, 36, 37.

LeBlanc, N. (2005). Canadian Art Teacher. (M. J. Emme, Ed.), 5(1). Digital Prints 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53.

PRESENTATIONS (Regional* National** International***)

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2019, July). “Re/negotiating Representations of Canadian Identity through Contemporary Art.” The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA), World Congress, Vancouver, BC. ***

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2019, July). “Cosmopolitanism as 'Cultural Creativity' in Arts Based and Artistic Research.” The 6th Conference on Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research, Vancouver. BC. ***

LeBlanc, N., Irwin, R. L., Belliveau, G., Gouzouasis, P., & Pinar, W. F. (2019, May). “Re/negotiating Representations of Canadian Identity through Arts Based Educational Research.” The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference, Vancouver, BC. **

Irwin, R. L., & LeBlanc, N. (2018, October). “Postcards from Home: Inquiring through Art.” The African Regional International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) Congress. Walvis Bay, Namibia. ***

Irwin, R. L., & LeBlanc, N. (2018, June). “A Cosmopolitan Imagination: Reimagining National Identity through Art.” The European Regional International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) Congress. Helsinki, Finland. ***

Siegesmund, R., LeBlanc, N., Shields, A., Wicks, J. (2018, April). “Dreams and Possibilities of Significant Educational Research: Revisiting the Eisner/Gardner Debates on the Arts-Based Dissertation.” The American Educational Research Association (AERA) National Convention, Elliot Eisner SIG, New York, NY. ***

Siegesmund, R., Hofsess, B., LeBlanc, N. Prendergast, M., & Sousanis, N., (2018, April). “ScholARTists: Second Edition of Arts-Based Research in Education.” The American Educational Research Association (AERA) National Convention, Arts Based Educational Research SIG, New York, NY. ***

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2018, March). “Artists-in-Residence: Possibilities for Learning.” The National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Seattle, WA. ***

Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., & Triggs, V. (2018, March). “Then and Now: Co-mentoring in and through Time.” The National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Seattle, WA. ***

LeBlanc, N., & Shields, A. (2018, March). “The A/Visual in Visual Arts Doctoral Research.” The 5th Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, TATE Liverpool, UK. ***

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2017, November). A Cosmopolitan Imagination: Reimagining National Identity through Art. A paper to be presented at the 7th World Arts Alliance for Education (WAAE) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. ***

Irwin, R. L., & LeBlanc, N. (2017, November). Engaging with Communities through Artists-in-Residence. A paper to be presented at the 7th World Arts Alliance for Education (WAAE) Conference. Auckland, New Zealand. ***

Lin, C. C., LeBlanc, N., Irwin, R. L., Belliveau, G., Gouzouasis, P., & Leggo, C. (2017, May). O Canada! Reimagining Canadian Identity through

Arts Based Research Methodologies. Panel Presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference,

Toronto, ON. **

LeBlanc, N., & Boulton, A. (2016, May). Visual Inquiry in Art Teacher Education: A Non-Linear, Rhizomatic Process of Learning. Paper presented

at the Investigating Our Practices (IOP) Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. *

LeBlanc, N., Boulton, A., Irwin, R. L., & May, H. (2016, April). Pedagogies of Ontology: Interventions and Intraventions of Practice Based

Research. Paper presented at The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2016, March). Visual Inquiry: A Radical, Ethical, and Evolutionary Practice. Paper presented at the National Art Education

Association (NAEA) National Convention, Chicago, IL. ***

LeBlanc, N., & Boulton, A. (2016, March). Visual Inquiry in Art Teacher Education: A Canadian and American Perspective. Paper presented

at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Chicago, IL. ***

LeBlanc, N., Lin, C. C., Lalonde, M. (2015, June). Citizens of Tomorrow: Engaging Urban Youth through Community Arts Practice. Symposium at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) National Conference, Ottawa, ON. **

LeBlanc, N. (2014, October). Intervention in Arts-Based Educational Research. Paper presented at the annual Canadian Society for Education

through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Halifax, NS. **

Irwin, R. L., Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2014, October). Interventions and Intraventions of Practice Based Research. Paper

presented at the annual Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Halifax, NS. **

LeBlanc, N., & Grauer, K. (2014, October). The Bully Files: GIFTS & Social Emotional Learning. Paper presented at the annual Canadian Society

for Education through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Halifax, NS. **

LeBlanc, N., & Boulton-Funke, A. (2014, May). Intervention & Intravention: Difficulties & Affordances of Becoming Pedagogical through

A/r/tography in Visual Art Teacher Education. Paper presented at Investigating Our Practices (IOP) Annual Conference, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver, BC. *

Beer, R., & LeBlanc, N., (2014, April). Un/desired Landscapes: Acts of Sharing and Creating Knowledge Through Site-Specific Artwork.

Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, SIG: Arts Based Educational Research, Philadelphia, PA. ***

Spector, H., & LeBlanc, N. (2014, April). Hannah Arendt, Education, and Ethical Engagement. Paper presented at the American Association

for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2014, March). The Abandoned School: Intervention as Innovation in Arts-Based Research. Paper presented at the National Art Education

Association (NAEA) National Convention, San Diego, CA. ***

May, H., Irwin, R. L., LeBlanc, N., & Boulton-Funke, A. (2014, March). Through Intraventions: Generating Emergent and Ongoing Learning in

Art Teacher Education. Paper presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, San Diego, CA. ***

Stout, C. J., LeBlanc, N., Boulton-Funke, A., Rama, P., Tervo, J., Morrow, S., Quinn, T., & Cinquemani, S. (2014, March). From the Indispensable Collaborators: Graduate Students’ Perspectives of Teaching and Learning Emergent Research Methodologies, a new NAEA publication. Paper

presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, San Diego, CA. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2014, January). In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Intervention as Innovation in Arts-Based Educational Research. Paper presented

at The 2nd Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. ***

Irwin, R. L., Boulton-Funke, A., & LeBlanc, N. (2014, January). Radicant Art Teacher Education. Paper presentated at The 2nd Conference on

Arts-Based and Artistic Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. ***

Baker, K., LeBlanc, N., & Salbuvik, K. (2013, May). Heartfelt Pedagogy: Implications of Practice. Paper presented at the Heartful Pedagogy:

Honouring the Work of Kit Grauer conference, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. *

LeBlanc, N., & Boulton-Funke, A. (2013, May). Deleuze and Heidegger in Conversation with Arts-Based Research Methodologies.

Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Montréal, QC. **

LeBlanc, N. (2013, May). In/Visibility of the Archive: Intervention & the Abandoned School. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for Education

through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Montréal, QC. **

Irwin, R. L., Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2013, March). Intraventions of Becoming: Provoking Inquiry and Self-Knowledge in Art

Teacher Education. Paper presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Ft. Worth, TX. ***

Baker, K., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2013, March). A/r/tography as Intervention. Paper presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA)

National Convention, Ft. Worth, TX. ***

LeBlanc. N. (2013, March). In/Visibility of the Archive: Intervention & The Abandoned School. Paper presented at the 30th Seminar for Art Education

Research (SRAE): Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers Session, National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Ft. Worth, TX. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2013, March). Surrendering Mastery: Reflecting, Observing, and Critiquing Teaching Through Critical Drama Pedagogy. Paper presented at

the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Ft. Worth, TX. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2013, March). Photography as Inquiry: The Generative and Pedagogical Process of Making School Closure Visible. Paper presented at the

National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, Ft. Worth, TX. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2012, October). Photography as Inquiry. Paper presented at the Graduate Symposium, Canadian Society of Education through Art

(CSEA) National Conference, Edmonton, AB. **

LeBlanc, N. (2012, October). Artistic Inquiry as a Conceptual Exploration of ‘School.’ Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Education through

Art (CSEA) National Conference, Edmonton, AB. **

LeBlanc, N. (2012, October). Critical Drama Pedagogy in Teacher Education: Conceptualizing Teaching, Interpersonal Relationships and Communication

through Allegory. Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Education through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Edmonton, AB. **

Irwin, R. L., O'Donoghue, D., Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2012, October). Intervention / Intravention: A/r/tography Inquiry in

Visual Art Teacher Education. Paper presented at the Canadian Society of Education through Art (CSEA) National Conference, Edmonton, AB. **

LeBlanc, N. (2012, October). Searching for Spaces Between: The Abandoned School. Paper presented at the Spaces & Flows: International

Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Detroit, MI. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2012, May). Critical Drama Pedagogy in Teacher Education. Paper presented at Investigating Our Practices (IOP) Annual Conference,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. *

LeBlanc, N. (2012, April). In/Visibility of School Closure. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual

Meeting, SIG: Arts Based Educational Research, Vancouver, BC. ***

Irwin, R. L., O'Donoghue, D., Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2012, March). Interventions: Conceptualizing, Designing, and Examining

Democratic Participatory Research with Secondary Art Teacher Candidates. Paper presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA)

National Convention, New York City, NY. ***

Irwin, R. L., O'Donoghue, D. Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., & May, H. (2012, March). Intraventions: Pedagogy and Democratic Participatory

Research with Visual Art Teacher Candidates. Paper presented at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) National Convention,

New York City, NY. ***

LeBlanc, N. (2011, April). Pedagogy of Closure. Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS)

Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. ***

INVITED PRESENTATIONS & RESIDENCIES

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2019, May). “Canadian Viewpoints: Concealed and Revealed.” Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy Seminar Series, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

LeBlanc, N. (2017, April). Reimagining the Abandoned through Arts Based Educational Research Methodologies. Outstanding Dissertation Award Presentation for the Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). San Antonio, TX.

LeBlanc, N. (2017, March). Performing Interventions: A Practice-led Approach to Doctoral Research. Lecture in the Faculty of Education, The

University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.

LeBlanc, N., & Irwin, R. L. (2017, March). studiOCanada. Lecture in the Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.

LeBlanc, N. (2016, May). In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Beyond Representations of School Closure. Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture

(via Skype) for the course Arts Based Educational Research, The University of Granada, Spain.

LeBlanc, N. (2016, March). In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Beyond Representations of School Closure. Visiting Artist/Scholar Short Term

Residency, Columbus State University, Department of Art, March 1-10, Columbus, GA.

LeBlanc, N. (2016, February). The Bully Files. Paper presentation at The Citizens of Tomorrow Symposium, Museum of Anthropology,

University of British Columbia, Feb. 16, Vancouver, BC.

LeBlanc, N. (2014, March). The Force of the Abandoned School. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium:

Shifting Pedagogies, University of British Columbia, March 14-15, Vancouver, BC.

LeBlanc, N. (2013, September). Bodies of Water: In the Wake of Being and Becoming. Artwork & Paper presented at the Biannual University-Based

Institute for Advanced Study (UBIAS) International Conference, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), University of British Columbia,

Sept. 17-19, Vancouver, BC.

Irwin, R. L., O'Donoghue, Boulton-Funke, A., LeBlanc, N., D., Phelan, A., Gu Xiong & Shields, A. (2013, March). Rethinking Relationships between

Teaching, Learning and Art. Paper presented at the Wyman Lecture and Killam Conversation, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty of

Education and Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia, March 14, Vancouver, BC.

LeBlanc, N. (2013, January). Self-Study & Autobiography through Art Practice as Research. Guest Lecturer for the course Arts Based Educational

Research: A/r/tography (EDCP 514). Course given by Rita L. Irwin, Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of

British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

LeBlanc, N. (2009, January). Fine Arts as a Professional Opportunity. Guest Panelist, Career Day, Villa Maria High School, Montréal, QC.

LeBlanc, N. (2008, January). Fine Arts as a Professional Opportunity, Guest Panelist, Career Day, Villa Maria High School, Montréal, QC.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

2015 Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Inquiry Seminar II: Secondary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDUC 451B Section 307 (13 students)

2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Rita L. Irwin, University of British Columbia

Course: Arts Based Educational Research: A/r/tography (Graduate Seminar)

Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy: EDCP 514 Section 032 (Fall: 10 students)

2014 Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Inquiry Seminar I: Secondary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDUC 450B Section 307 (14 students)

2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Rita L. Irwin, University of British Columbia

Course: Arts Based Educational Research: A/r/tography (Graduate Seminar)

Faculty of Education, Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy: EDCP 514 Section 032 (Winter: 25 students)

2014 Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Inquiry Seminar II: Secondary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDUC 451B Section 307 (25 students)

2013 Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDCP 301 Section 110 (36 students)

2012 Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Printmaking Practices & Processes for Teaching K-12

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy: EDCP 402 Section 951 (26 students)

2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Communication Skills in Teaching: Secondary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDUC 316c: Section 307 (17 students)

2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDCP 301 Section 202 (35 students)

2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Principles of Teaching: Secondary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDUC 311 Section 307 (26 students)

2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary Art

Teacher Education Program: EDCP 301 Section 102 (35 students)

2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary Art

Teacher Education Program: ARTE 320 Section 101 (35 students)

2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

Course: Curriculum and Instruction: Elementary Art

Teacher Education Program: ARTE 320 Section 103 (36 students)

2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University

Course: Community Art Education: Professional Practice for Art Educators

Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in art education: ARTE 434 (8 students)

2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University

Course: Community Art Education: Theory and Practice

Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in art education: ARTE 432 (8 students)

ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY SERVICE

Editorial

2018 – International Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), The McGill Journal of Education / la Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill (MJE)

2018 – Reviewer, The International Journal of Education & the Arts (IJEA)

2018 – Reviewer, The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, The Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in

Education, Special Interest Group

2018 – Reviewer, The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Arts & Learning Special Interest Group

2018 Reviewer, The 2019 InSEA World Congress

2017 Reviewer, The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group Outstanding Dissertation Award, for The American Educational

Research Association (AERA)

2016 – Reviewer, The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group

Annual Meeting

2015 – Reviewer, Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal

2014 Reviewer, The International Journal of the Image (D. Cubby, Ed.)

2012 – 13 Reviewer, Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

2012 Reviewer, UNESCO Observatory Multidisciplinary Research in the Arts (MDRA), Special Issue on A/r/tography (Irwin, R. L. & Sinner, A., Eds.)

Committees & Other

2011 – 19 Webmaster, The World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE)

2011 – 19 Webmaster, A/r/tography

2014 – 17 Webmaster, Mentoring BC

2014 – 17 Webmaster, Pedagogical Assemblage

2015 – 16 Webmaster, Network of Arts Based Educational Researchers (NABER)

2012 – 13 Organizing Committee, The Heartful Pedagogy Conference: In Honour of Kit Grauer, Museum of Anthropology, UBC

2012 – 13 Webmaster, The Heartful Pedagogy Conference

2013 Photographer, Research Day: Education Research Matters, The Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, First Nations House of Learning, UBC

EXHIBITIONS

2019 Canadian Viewpoints: Concealed and Revealed. Lookout Gallery, Regent College, Vancouver, BC.

2018 From Mittens to Barbies: Provoking International Perspectives on Visual Arts Doctoral Research. The Tate Exchange, Liverpool, UK.

2015 Inquiry: An aesthetic of unfolding. Neville Scarfe, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2015 In the Wake of Becoming. The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC, Vancouver, BC.

2014 Select works from The Force of the Abandoned School (Juried). The Art History Visual Art Theory (AHVA) Gallery at the Audain Art

Centre in conjunction with The 37th Annual AHVA Art Graduate Symposium, UBC, March, Vancouver, BC.

2013 Arts-Based Conceptions of Water (Juried). The Biannual University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) conference,

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2013 Select works from Being-With The Abandoned School. Presented at The Performing Arts-Based Research Conference,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

2012 Select works from The Abandoned School. Presented at The Art Educators as Artists, The United States Scoiety fro Education through Art

(USSEA), National Art Education Association conference, New York, NY.

2008 The Inner Space/The Outer Place (Juried). The Fofa Gallery in conjunction with the Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA)

National Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

2008 The Faculty of Fine Arts Sixth Annual Graduating Students Exhibition (Juried). VAV Gallery (curated by Lynn Beavis), Concordia,

Montréal, QC.

2008 Beauty in Abandonment, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, QC.

2006 Évenement Interuniversitaire de Création Vidéo (EICV) (Juried). Fifteenth Annual Exhibition/Video Screening (Finalist), Montréal, QC.

2005 Format 12 x 12 Exposition Collective. Format L78 L’Espace Galerie, Montréal, QC.

2005 Original Art in Original Settings. Marchant Gallery, Lancaster, ON.

2003 The Distance Between Us. La Galerie Espace, Montréal, QC.

1998 SFAR Intersections Annual Exhibition (Juried). VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC.

1997 Graduate Exhibition (Juried). Gallery 89, John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC.

1994 Tenth Annual Art Contest, Le Centre Culturel Pierrefonds (First Place Purchase Prize, Oil Painting Category), Montréal, QC.

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Department of Language and Literacy Education, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

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