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Heather G. Kaplan

Associate Professor
Art

Office Building: Fox Fine Arts Center
Office Room: A455A
Phone: (915) 747-7849
Email: hgkaplan@utep.edu

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

2024 Inaugural High Impact Teaching and Learning Award - Office of the Provost (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
2024 Residential Fellowship Position for Early Childhood - Clyfford Still Museum (07/01/2024-07/31/2024)
Pocosin Summer Artist Residency - Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft (05/01/2024-05/31/2024)
Manuel Barkan Memorial Award - National Art Education Association (04/01/2024-04/30/2024)
Second Place Award - Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival, Light Art Space (07/01/2023-07/31/2023)
Third Place Award - WHAM Art Center (01/01/2023-01/31/2023)
Third Place Prize - From the Ground Up (10/09/2021)
First Place Prize - Ruminations Exhibition (07/31/2021)
Aaron and Sylvia Wechter Family Excellence Fund (01/01/2021)
Collected Work - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art (09/15/2020)
Catherine Kistermacher Award - El Paso Art Association, Selected by Kate Green curator of EPMA (10/01/2019-10/31/2019)
COLA career enhancement award - College of Liberal Arts (07/03/2019)

Education

Ph D in Art Education, The Ohio State University (2016)

Artistic and Creative Performances and Exhibits

Art - Exhibition, One-Person - Plateau (07/01/2025). Flint, MI. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Earth and Fire, (02/01/2025). Wheeling, WV. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Garden Reverie, Juror Leigh Taylor Mickelson (01/11/2025-03/08/2025). Baltimore, MD. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Yellow Springs Ceramic National Exhibition, Juror Chris Staley (12/06/2024-12/14/2024). Yellow Springs, OH. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Southern Miss Ceramics National, Jurors Tom and Elaine Coleman (10/14/2024-11/08/2024). Long Beach, MS. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Lush 3: A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Jamie Bates Sloane (09/12/2024-11/16/2024). Tequesta, FL. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Visions in Clay, Juror Kevin Snipes (08/29/2024-09/20/2024). Stockton, CA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Workhouse 14th Annual Clay International, Juror Matt Kelleher (07/27/2024-10/20/2024). Lorton, VA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay, Juror Anne Thiam (05/31/2024-06/22/2024). Cape Cod, MA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Contemporary Clay, 10th International Biennial Juried Exhibit, Juror Alleghany Meadows (05/24/2024-06/25/2024). Junction, Colorado. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Animal Attractions, Jurors Taylor Robenalt and Tiffany Leach (03/22/2024-05/12/2024). St. Petersberg, FL. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, One-Person - Muddle, Cull, & Coalesce (03/01/2024-04/30/2024). Missoula, MT. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Earth and Fire, Juror Shoji Satake (02/23/2024-03/30/2024). Wheeling, WV, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay National, Juror Matt Mitros (02/01/2024-03/29/2024). Goleta, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Contemporary Clay, 10th International Biennial Juried Exhibit (01/01/2024). Junction, CO. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, One-Person - Partial Narratives (10/06/2023-11/03/2023). Carbondale, CO, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Art Works in Publication - Suburban Desert (10/01/2023-10/31/2023). Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Origin, Juror Kensuke Yamada (09/09/2023-11/04/2023). Baltimore, MD, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - 13th Annual Workhouse Clay International, Juror George Rodriguez (08/05/2023-10/22/2023). Lorton, VA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival (07/01/2023-07/31/2023). Silver City, NM, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - The Human Figure in Clay, 19th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, Juror Biliana Popova (06/03/2023-06/24/2023). Tujunga, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay Bash: A Triennial Ceramics Juried Exhibition, Juror Jennifer D. Martin (05/21/2023-09/03/2023). Clinton, NJ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Off Center, Juror Garth Johnson (04/08/2023-05/20/2023). Roseville, CA, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Shapes of Influence, Juror Jennifer Holt (03/18/2023-04/29/2023). Springfield, IL, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - 44th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Juror Ariel Zaccheo (02/10/2023-04/23/2023). Mesa, AZ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Study is What You Do with Other People, UTEP Faculty Biennial (01/19/2023-04/07/2023). El Paso, TX, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - All Things Clay, Judge/Juror David Bradley (01/03/2023-01/30/2023). Surprise, AZ, USA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Lush 2: A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Brian Rochefort (10/13/2022-12/10/2022). Tequesta, Florida. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Southern Miss Ceramics National, Juror George Rodriguez (10/10/2022-11/04/2022). Long Beach, Mississippi. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Visions in Clay, Juror Rachel Gotlieb Curator of Ceramic Arts, Crocker Art Museum (09/01/2022-09/23/2022). Stockton, California. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay National XVI, Juror Diane Kenney (08/19/2022-09/30/2022). Carbondale, Colorado. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Sculpture National, Juror Meaghan Gates (08/12/2022-09/24/2022). New Orleans, Louisiana. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Workhouse 12th Annual Clay International, Juror Tony Clennell (08/06/2022-10/09/2022). Lorton, Virginia. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Flora, Fauna, and Fiction, Juror Sara Catapano (08/05/2022-08/31/2022). Missoula, Montana. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Food Glorious Food (07/01/2022-07/01/2023). Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Reflections in Clay, Juror Jamie Bates Sloane (07/01/2022-07/30/2022). Silver City Clay Festival. Silver City, New Mexico. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Ceramics Biennial 2022, Juror David R. MacDonald (06/17/2022-07/31/2022). Guilford, Connecticut. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Fire and Fiber (06/03/2022-07/29/2022). Las Cruces Potter's Guild. Las Cruces, New Mexico; Deming, New Mexico. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay A Southern Consensus, Juror Asia Mathis (05/13/2022-06/25/2022). New Orleans, Louisiana. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Contemporary Clay 2022, Juror Fong Choo (05/13/2022-06/25/2022). Grand Junction, Colorado. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Well Grounded: Small Feats of Clay 2022, Juror Marsha Shindler (03/02/2022-03/26/2022). Lincoln, California. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Competitive - Clay National XV: The Narrative Figure, Jurors Kyle and Kelly Phelps (09/21/2021-10/12/2021). Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Where the Wild Things Are, Juror David Scott Smith (09/03/2021-09/25/2021). Missoula, MT. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - From the Ground Up XXX: Juried Regional Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Joshua R. Clark (08/06/2021-10/09/2021). Las Cruces Potter Guild. Las Cruces, NM. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Ruminations: 2021 International Juried Exhibition, Juror Sanam Enami (07/02/2021-07/31/2021). Silver City, NM. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Botanical Abundance: The 17th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, Juror CJ Jilek (06/05/2021-07/10/2021). Tujunga, CA (virtual). Heather Kaplan.
Art - Art Works in Publication - Greener Pastures (06/01/2021-06/01/2021). San Angelo, Texas. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Art Works in Publication - Play performance (06/01/2021-06/01/2021). Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, Juror Aida Birritteri (02/23/2021-03/23/2021). Philadelphia, PA (virtual). Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - The 23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Juror Jo Lauria (07/01/2020-09/30/2020). San Angelo, TX,. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - UTEP Faculty Exhibition (01/30/2020-04/17/2020). El Paso, TX. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Exhibition, Group - Westward HO! An Exhibition of Contemporary Craft of the Southwest, Curator Curator Gail M. Brown (12/07/2019-02/01/2020). Wayne, PA. Heather Kaplan.
Art - Art Works in Publication - Where There's Smoke (09/30/2021). Heather Kaplan.

Publications

Wrestling the Tentacular: Compost and Contamination Making Children, Clay, and Video. Bloomsbury (2025), Heather G. Kaplan.
Riding the Bus with Racists: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Complexity of the Border InSEA Publications (2024), Heather G. Kaplan.
In Dialogue: Initial Steps Toward Inquiry, Meaning Making, and Democracy Art Education 77 1 (2024), Heather G. Kaplan.
Tracing Images of Precarity: Sketching, Mourning, and a Relational Making Practice Visual Arts Research (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
Education as Affective: Making Visual Journals During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 40 1 (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
Spontaneous Cosmic Becomings/Cut together-apart in Conocimiento: Cosmic Generator and the El Paso Spontaneous Shrine Journal of Posthumanism (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
Pórtate Bien con la Maestra: The Problem with Quality in a Borderlands STEAM Makerspace Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (2023), Heather G. Kaplan, Diane E. Golding.
Framing Precarity Through Images of the Grievable Life of Children Studies in Art Education 62 4 (2021), Heather G. Kaplan.
The Art of Engineering ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access (2021), Diane Golding, Heather G. Kaplan.
Border Tuner and Teeter-Totter Wall: Two works of Participatory Public Pedagogy Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art/Intellect 10 1 (2021), Heather G. Kaplan.
Serendipity as a Curricular Approach to Early Childhood Art Education Art Education Journal 73 6 (2020), Heather G. Kaplan.
Questions of New Materialist Ethics Bloomsbury Academic (2020), Heather G. Kaplan.

Presentations

Body, being, and babies: Ethical considerations of the infant and toddler programming at the Clyfford Still Museum (2024), Volume Chicago, IL, Heather G. Kaplan.
Residential Fellowship Roundtable (2024), Volume Denver, CO, Heather G. Kaplan.
Kitemaking as Rupture and Reconsideration (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.
Thinking relationality: Precarity, the border, and young children, 2023 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award Paper Presentation (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.
Pórtate bien con la maestra: Journal of Social Theory Author Roundtable (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.
Making and Using Molds (2024), Volume Missoula, MT, Heather G. Kaplan.
Muddle, Cull, & Coalesce Artist Talk (2024), Volume MIssoula, MT, Heather G. Kaplan.
Thinking with the border in (Early Childhood) Art Education (2024), Heather G. Kaplan.
New materialist, prosthetic convergences of children, clay, and video (2023), Volume Tucson, AZ, Heather G. Kaplan.
Where is the child?:Imagining the field(work) of contemporary early childhood research in art education post covid. (2023), Volume Tucson, AZ, Heather G. Kaplan.
Partial Narratives (2023), Volume Virtual: Carbondale, CO, Heather G. Kaplan, Undine Brod.
Kitemaking as questioning: Rupture and reconsideration: Global Perspectives of Early Childhood Education: Ruptures and Reimaginings (2023), Volume Cannakale, Turkey, Heather G. Kaplan.
Marking up the myth that children should be seen and not heard (2023), Volume San Antonio, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
The case for early childhood’s (childhood studies’) inclusion in art education: Where are children in art education’s vision for equity, diversity, and inclusion? (2023), Volume San Antonio, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
Pórtate Bien con la Maestra: How the Border Questions Quality, (2022), Volume Tucson, Arizona, Heather Kaplan, Diane Golding.
Education as Affective: Making Visual Journals During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2022), Volume Athens, Georgia, Heather G. Kaplan.
Little Polly Flinders, Artistic/Aesthetic Inquiry, and the Myth that Children Should be Seen and Not Heard (2022), Volume Vancouver, Canada, Heather G. Kaplan.
Tracing Images of Precarity: Sketching, Mourning, and a Relational Making Practice. (2022), Volume Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, Heather G. Kaplan.
From the Ground Up artist talks (2021), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Heather G. Kaplan.
Yinka Shonibare (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
Art and Engineering in Kindergarten (2021), Volume Long Beach, CA (Virtual), Diane Golding, Heather G. Kaplan.
Exploring image, ideas, and process with printmaker Nabil Gonzalez (2021), Volume El Paso, TX (virtual), Heather G. Kaplan, Nabil Gonzalez.
Recent Work (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
The intersection of early childhood and art: A Conversation about materials, aesthetics, and artist identities (2021), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Heather G. Kaplan, Gigi Yu, Jennifer Combe.
Exploring Materials for Student Artistic Agency and Teacher Confidence in Art Making. (2021), Volume Fresno California (virtual), Heather G. Kaplan.
Roberto Lugo: Critical Discussions of Hip-hop, Ceramics, and Visual Culture (2021), Volume Chicago, IL (Virtual), Heather G. Kaplan.
Matter and Mysticism: Mika Rottenberg and El Paso Strong (2020), Volume Mc Allen, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
Rethinking the Logic of the Border Wall through Artistic Technologies and Public Pedagogy (2020), Volume Mc Allen, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.
Storytelling as a Process and for Processing (2020), Volume University Park, PA, Heather G. Kaplan.
Transformative Pedagogies for Early Childhood Art Education (2020), Volume Minneapolis, MN (cancelled), Heather G. Kaplan.
Fear and Loathing in the Early Childhood Art Class: Short Attention Spans and Other Myths (2020), Volume Minneapolis MN (cancelled), Heather G. Kaplan.
Framing Precarity: Art Education and Images of the Grievable Life of Children (2020), Volume El Paso, TX, Heather G. Kaplan.

Grants

Reimagining the US/Mexico Border Through Multimodal Storytelling
Sculpture and Makerspace Practices and Problem Solving in a Jewish Elementary School

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section
Fall 2025	ARTE 4357 - Experiential Practicum	17612
Fall 2025	ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking	16014
Fall 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	16537
Summer 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	31464

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2025	ARTE 4357 - Experiential Practicum	17612
Fall 2025	ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking	16014
Spring 2025	ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy	27421	Syllabus
Spring 2025	ARTE 3347 - Literacies of Art	27420	Syllabus
Spring 2025	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	20766	Syllabus
Fall 2024	ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy	10814	Syllabus
Fall 2024	ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking	17398	Syllabus
Fall 2024	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	18015
Spring 2024	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21050	Syllabus
Spring 2024	ART 3339 - Special Studies	28306
Spring 2024	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	25945	Syllabus
Fall 2023	ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy	10949	Syllabus
Fall 2023	ARTE 3307 - Introduction to Art Education	11282	Syllabus
Spring 2023	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21141	Syllabus
Spring 2023	MAIS 5393 - Final Project	21822
Fall 2022	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11747	Syllabus
Spring 2022	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	21180
Fall 2021	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11747
Fall 2021	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	14568
Fall 2021	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	11310
Spring 2021	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21591
Spring 2021	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	21301
Fall 2020	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11841	Syllabus
Fall 2020	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	11364	Syllabus
Spring 2020	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21792	Syllabus
Spring 2020	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	29301
Spring 2020	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	21466	Syllabus
Spring 2020	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	26633
Fall 2019	ARTE 5397 - Directed Research in Art Educa	19561
Fall 2019	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11962	Syllabus
Fall 2019	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	19524
Fall 2019	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	11449	Syllabus
Spring 2019	MAIS 5393 - Final Project	23276
Spring 2019	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	21278	Syllabus
Spring 2019	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	24250	Syllabus
Spring 2019	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	21551	Syllabus
Fall 2018	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	12105	Syllabus
Fall 2018	ART 5395 - Graduate Seminar	11563
Fall 2018	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	12106	Syllabus
Fall 2018	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	11553	Syllabus
Spring 2018	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	22064	Syllabus
Spring 2018	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	21352	Syllabus
Spring 2018	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	24595	Syllabus
Spring 2018	TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art	21637	Syllabus

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy	10814	Evaluation
Fall 2024	ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking	17398	Evaluation
Spring 2024	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21050	Evaluation
Spring 2024	ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art	25945	Evaluation
Fall 2023	ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy	10949	Evaluation
Fall 2023	ARTE 3307 - Introduction to Art Education	11282	Evaluation
Spring 2023	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21141	Evaluation
Fall 2022	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11747	Evaluation
Fall 2021	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11747	Evaluation
Spring 2021	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21591	Evaluation
Fall 2020	ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art	11841	Evaluation
Spring 2020	ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices	21792	Evaluation

Bio

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Awards and Honors

2024 Inaugural High Impact Teaching and Learning Award - Office of the Provost (11/01/2024-11/30/2024)
2024 Residential Fellowship Position for Early Childhood - Clyfford Still Museum (07/01/2024-07/31/2024)
Pocosin Summer Artist Residency - Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft (05/01/2024-05/31/2024)
Manuel Barkan Memorial Award - National Art Education Association (04/01/2024-04/30/2024)
Second Place Award - Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival, Light Art Space (07/01/2023-07/31/2023)
Third Place Award - WHAM Art Center (01/01/2023-01/31/2023)
Third Place Prize - From the Ground Up (10/09/2021)
First Place Prize - Ruminations Exhibition (07/31/2021)
Aaron and Sylvia Wechter Family Excellence Fund (01/01/2021)
Collected Work - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art (09/15/2020)
Catherine Kistermacher Award - El Paso Art Association, Selected by Kate Green curator of EPMA (10/01/2019-10/31/2019)
COLA career enhancement award - College of Liberal Arts (07/03/2019)

Ph D in Art Education, The Ohio State University (2016)

Artistic and Creative Performances and Exhibits

Start Date

2025-07-01

End Date

Type

Art - Exhibition, One-Person

Title

Plateau

Start Date

2025-02-01

End Date

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Earth and Fire,

Start Date

2025-01-11

End Date

2025-03-08

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Garden Reverie, Juror Leigh Taylor Mickelson

Start Date

2024-12-06

End Date

2024-12-14

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Yellow Springs Ceramic National Exhibition, Juror Chris Staley

Start Date

2024-10-14

End Date

2024-11-08

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Southern Miss Ceramics National, Jurors Tom and Elaine Coleman

Start Date

2024-09-12

End Date

2024-11-16

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Lush 3: A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Jamie Bates Sloane

Start Date

2024-08-29

End Date

2024-09-20

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Visions in Clay, Juror Kevin Snipes

Start Date

2024-07-27

End Date

2024-10-20

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Workhouse 14th Annual Clay International, Juror Matt Kelleher

Start Date

2024-05-31

End Date

2024-06-22

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay, Juror Anne Thiam

Start Date

2024-05-24

End Date

2024-06-25

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Contemporary Clay, 10th International Biennial Juried Exhibit, Juror Alleghany Meadows

Start Date

2024-03-22

End Date

2024-05-12

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Animal Attractions, Jurors Taylor Robenalt and Tiffany Leach

Start Date

2024-03-01

End Date

2024-04-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, One-Person

Title

Muddle, Cull, & Coalesce

Start Date

2024-02-23

End Date

2024-03-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Earth and Fire, Juror Shoji Satake

Start Date

2024-02-01

End Date

2024-03-29

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay National, Juror Matt Mitros

Start Date

2024-01-01

End Date

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Contemporary Clay, 10th International Biennial Juried Exhibit

Start Date

2023-10-06

End Date

2023-11-03

Type

Art - Exhibition, One-Person

Title

Partial Narratives

Start Date

2023-10-01

End Date

2023-10-31

Type

Art - Art Works in Publication

Title

Suburban Desert

Start Date

2023-09-09

End Date

2023-11-04

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Origin, Juror Kensuke Yamada

Start Date

2023-08-05

End Date

2023-10-22

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

13th Annual Workhouse Clay International, Juror George Rodriguez

Start Date

2023-07-01

End Date

2023-07-31

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Grace: Expressions Through Clay, Exhibition in conjunction with Silver City Clay Festival

Start Date

2023-06-03

End Date

2023-06-24

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

The Human Figure in Clay, 19th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, Juror Biliana Popova

Start Date

2023-05-21

End Date

2023-09-03

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay Bash: A Triennial Ceramics Juried Exhibition, Juror Jennifer D. Martin

Start Date

2023-04-08

End Date

2023-05-20

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Off Center, Juror Garth Johnson

Start Date

2023-03-18

End Date

2023-04-29

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Shapes of Influence, Juror Jennifer Holt

Start Date

2023-02-10

End Date

2023-04-23

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

44th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Juror Ariel Zaccheo

Start Date

2023-01-19

End Date

2023-04-07

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Study is What You Do with Other People, UTEP Faculty Biennial

Start Date

2023-01-03

End Date

2023-01-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

All Things Clay, Judge/Juror David Bradley

Start Date

2022-10-13

End Date

2022-12-10

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Lush 2: A Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Brian Rochefort

Start Date

2022-10-10

End Date

2022-11-04

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Southern Miss Ceramics National, Juror George Rodriguez

Start Date

2022-09-01

End Date

2022-09-23

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Visions in Clay, Juror Rachel Gotlieb Curator of Ceramic Arts, Crocker Art Museum

Start Date

2022-08-19

End Date

2022-09-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay National XVI, Juror Diane Kenney

Start Date

2022-08-12

End Date

2022-09-24

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Sculpture National, Juror Meaghan Gates

Start Date

2022-08-06

End Date

2022-10-09

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Workhouse 12th Annual Clay International, Juror Tony Clennell

Start Date

2022-08-05

End Date

2022-08-31

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Flora, Fauna, and Fiction, Juror Sara Catapano

Start Date

2022-07-01

End Date

2023-07-01

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Food Glorious Food

Start Date

2022-07-01

End Date

2022-07-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Reflections in Clay, Juror Jamie Bates Sloane

Start Date

2022-06-17

End Date

2022-07-31

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Ceramics Biennial 2022, Juror David R. MacDonald

Start Date

2022-06-03

End Date

2022-07-29

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Fire and Fiber

Start Date

2022-05-13

End Date

2022-06-25

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay A Southern Consensus, Juror Asia Mathis

Start Date

2022-05-13

End Date

2022-06-25

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Contemporary Clay 2022, Juror Fong Choo

Start Date

2022-03-02

End Date

2022-03-26

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Well Grounded: Small Feats of Clay 2022, Juror Marsha Shindler

Start Date

2021-09-21

End Date

2021-10-12

Type

Art - Exhibition, Competitive

Title

Clay National XV: The Narrative Figure, Jurors Kyle and Kelly Phelps

Start Date

2021-09-03

End Date

2021-09-25

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Where the Wild Things Are, Juror David Scott Smith

Start Date

2021-08-06

End Date

2021-10-09

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

From the Ground Up XXX: Juried Regional Ceramics Exhibition, Juror Joshua R. Clark

Start Date

2021-07-02

End Date

2021-07-31

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Ruminations: 2021 International Juried Exhibition, Juror Sanam Enami

Start Date

2021-06-05

End Date

2021-07-10

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Botanical Abundance: The 17th Annual Ceramics Juried Open Exhibition, Juror CJ Jilek

Start Date

2021-06-01

End Date

2021-06-01

Type

Art - Art Works in Publication

Title

Greener Pastures

Start Date

2021-06-01

End Date

2021-06-01

Type

Art - Art Works in Publication

Title

Play performance

Start Date

2021-02-23

End Date

2021-03-23

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, Juror Aida Birritteri

Start Date

2020-07-01

End Date

2020-09-30

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

The 23rd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Juror Jo Lauria

Start Date

2020-01-30

End Date

2020-04-17

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

UTEP Faculty Exhibition

Start Date

2019-12-07

End Date

2020-02-01

Type

Art - Exhibition, Group

Title

Westward HO! An Exhibition of Contemporary Craft of the Southwest, Curator Curator Gail M. Brown

Start Date

End Date

2021-09-30

Type

Art - Art Works in Publication

Title

Where There's Smoke

Publications

Wrestling the Tentacular: Compost and Contamination Making Children, Clay, and Video. Bloomsbury (2025), Heather G. Kaplan.
Riding the Bus with Racists: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Complexity of the Border InSEA Publications (2024), Heather G. Kaplan.
In Dialogue: Initial Steps Toward Inquiry, Meaning Making, and Democracy Art Education 77 1 (2024), Heather G. Kaplan.
Tracing Images of Precarity: Sketching, Mourning, and a Relational Making Practice Visual Arts Research (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.
Education as Affective: Making Visual Journals During the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 40 1 (2023), Heather G. Kaplan.

Presentations

Body, being, and babies: Ethical considerations of the infant and toddler programming at the Clyfford Still Museum (2024), Volume Chicago, IL, Heather G. Kaplan.
Residential Fellowship Roundtable (2024), Volume Denver, CO, Heather G. Kaplan.
Kitemaking as Rupture and Reconsideration (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.
Thinking relationality: Precarity, the border, and young children, 2023 Manuel Barkan Memorial Award Paper Presentation (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.
Pórtate bien con la maestra: Journal of Social Theory Author Roundtable (2024), Volume Minneapolis, MN, Heather G. Kaplan.

Reimagining the US/Mexico Border Through Multimodal Storytelling
Sculpture and Makerspace Practices and Problem Solving in a Jewish Elementary School

Current/Future Courses

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Fall 2025

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ARTE 4357 - Experiential Practicum

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17612

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Fall 2025

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ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking

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16014

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Fall 2025

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RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

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16537

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Summer 2025

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RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

31464

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Past Courses

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Fall 2025

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ARTE 4357 - Experiential Practicum

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17612

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Fall 2025

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ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking

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16014

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Spring 2025

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ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy

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27421

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Spring 2025

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ARTE 3347 - Literacies of Art

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27420

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Spring 2025

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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20766

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Fall 2024

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ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy

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10814

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Fall 2024

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ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking

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17398

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Fall 2024

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RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

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18015

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Spring 2024

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21050

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Spring 2024

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ART 3339 - Special Studies

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28306

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Spring 2024

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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25945

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Fall 2023

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ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy

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10949

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Fall 2023

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ARTE 3307 - Introduction to Art Education

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11282

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Spring 2023

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21141

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Spring 2023

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MAIS 5393 - Final Project

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21822

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Fall 2022

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11747

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Spring 2022

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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21180

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Fall 2021

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11747

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Fall 2021

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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14568

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Fall 2021

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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11310

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Spring 2021

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21591

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Spring 2021

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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21301

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Fall 2020

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11841

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Fall 2020

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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11364

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Spring 2020

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21792

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Spring 2020

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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29301

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Spring 2020

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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21466

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Spring 2020

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RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

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26633

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Fall 2019

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ARTE 5397 - Directed Research in Art Educa

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19561

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Fall 2019

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11962

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Fall 2019

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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19524

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Fall 2019

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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11449

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Spring 2019

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MAIS 5393 - Final Project

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23276

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Spring 2019

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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21278

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Spring 2019

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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24250

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Spring 2019

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

Section

21551

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Fall 2018

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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12105

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Fall 2018

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ART 5395 - Graduate Seminar

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11563

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Fall 2018

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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12106

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Fall 2018

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TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

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11553

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Spring 2018

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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22064

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Spring 2018

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

Section

21352

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

Section

24595

Syllabus

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Spring 2018

Course

TED 4696 - Student Teach: All-Levels Art

Section

21637

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Fall 2024

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ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy

Section

10814

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Fall 2024

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ARTE 3357 - Issues, Ideas, and Artmaking

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17398

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Spring 2024

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21050

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Spring 2024

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ART 3307 - Special Topics in Art

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25945

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Fall 2023

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ARTE 4347 - Curriculum and Pedagogy

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10949

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Fall 2023

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ARTE 3307 - Introduction to Art Education

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11282

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Spring 2023

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

Section

21141

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Fall 2022

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11747

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Fall 2021

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11747

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Spring 2021

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

Section

21591

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Fall 2020

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ARTE 4347 - Methods of Teaching Art

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11841

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Spring 2020

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ARTE 3337 - Art Ed Projects and Practices

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21792

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