[Initially doodled on a piece of scrap paper, this portrait was drawn by friend, colleague, and co-conspirator Maggie Cavallo during the course we taught together— Art, Design, and Learning in Public— in response to a student-generated prompt to create “a blind contour drawing of a friend”.]
My practice lives in many spaces and with many people: across university, PreK-12, informal learning spaces, gatherings around and sprawled beyond the kitchen table with food and play, and unexpected moments on the sidewalk. In these spaces and more I wonder, explore, question, play, connect, and create as artist, as educator, as learner, as researcher, as designer, as co-conspirator, as friend.
Some spaces and people and relationships and projects with whom I’m committed:
I’m part of research, teaching, and cohort communities as a doctoral candidate in the department of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society at Boston College.
I design, facilitate, and study a queer and trans communal clothing making program, QTthreads, rooted in multidimensional struggles for self-determination, where we play with possibilities for expansive gender expression through creating and altering wearables; witness and encourage each other’s becoming; and dream queer and trans worlds together.
I co-organize an intergenerational and multi-institutional video-based data analysis group, IAL at NYU, grown from histories of micro-ethnographic and interaction analysis approaches to studying learning with care guided by ethical and political sensibilities and commitments.
I am part of a team designing and studying a making-based learning ecology (so far, resources, activities, physical and virtual structures) oriented toward nurturant STEM learning with youth receiving care in a pediatric hospital with the Nurturant STEM project at The Earl Center for Learning and Innovation at Boston University and in collaboration with partners in Baltimore, MD.
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I taught and learned and laughed with artists at Community Academy of Science and Health with Open Door Arts, where I also co-developed and curated our gallery vision and programs.
As student and co-teacher, I joined in collective dreaming while forming explorations of and possibilities for learning in socially-engaged and public participatory art at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
I squirmed and smiled and fell and laughed with fellow artist-teacher-learner-designer-friends navigating making experiences with young children at NuVu Studio’s PreVu program.
I wiggle and wander with a group of folks committed to finding and creating possibilities wherever we go.
