Viewfinder Call for Abstracts: Digital NAEA
Hannah Heller, Hallie Scott, Kabir Singh, Viewfinder Editorial Board
Viewfinder, an online publication focused on the intersection of museum education and social justice from the National Art Education Association’s Museum Education Division, is looking for article abstracts for a new issue. We encourage museum education professionals and students of all levels to submit an abstract by the EXTENDED DEADLINE April 14, 2020.
While we are disappointed to not be able to connect and share ideas in person at NAEA, Viewfinder is excited to continue to serve the NAEA community as a digital platform for exchange. This is a moment for innovation around dynamic and creative emergent forms of communication, teaching, and learning, particularly around social justice. In this spirit, we are dedicating this issue of Viewfinder to fostering conversations and highlighting presentations that could not happen in person at the conference.
We are seeking proposals for abstracts in line with Viewfinder’s overall aims of showcasing work by museum educators focused on social justice. Given this issue’s desire to share ideas that would otherwise have been presented at NAEA, we are open to a variety of media: images, annotated slideshows, videos, and, of course, writing — or feel free to propose your own format!
Submit your proposal here.
— The Viewfinder Editorial Board
Hannah Heller (she/her)
Hannah Heller is an NYC based freelance museum educator, and has taught and worked on research and evaluation projects in several cultural institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Whitney Museum of American Art, El Museo del Barrio, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Art & Art Education program at Teachers College, and holds a MA in Museum Education from Tufts University. Her current research focuses on anti-racist pedagogies and ways to mitigate the effects of whiteness in gallery teaching practices. Follow her on Twitter @museum_matters!
Hallie Scott (she/her)
Currently the Specialist, University Audiences at the Hammer Museum, Hallie is committed to facilitating programs that center young people and generate exchange and learning between educators. Her previous experience includes overseeing teen programs as an Education Specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum; working as the Education Director at the Wassaic Project, a contemporary art center and residency in Dutchess County, New York; and teaching art history courses as a Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College. She has a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Art History from City University of New York, Graduate Center, and wrote her dissertation on artists, architects, and dancers who developed experimental education initiatives in the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently the Community Engagement chair on the board of Museum Educators of Southern California.
Kabir Singh (he/him), Editor-in-Chief
Kabir Singh is an educator and writer based in Los Angeles. He has been teaching in art museums since 2008 and is dedicated to working towards greater equity in education and the arts. Kabir is a VTS Trainer for the organization Visual Thinking Strategies, where he leads professional development for educators nationwide in a constructivist pedagogy that teaches thinking through conversations about visual art. He also regularly teaches in the galleries of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California and supports teacher professional development at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Kabir serves as the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Museum Education Division Pacific Regional Representative and is the Editor-in-Chief of Viewfinder, the division’s online journal that examines the intersection of museum education and social justice. Kabir holds an EdM in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Art History from Columbia University. Follow him on Instagram or Twitter @singhkabir.
