Reading Room: Urgent Pedagogies was an exhibition as learning space that engaged the University of Hartford campus community around issues of equity and social justice through art, design, and pedagogy. The immersive and participatory exhibition collaborated with students and faculty across the campus and beyond to set forth a space of teaching and learning through tools, games, conversation, and experiences. Reading Room activated and expanded possibilities for learning and teaching in the university context—and around what we might deem “urgent” in our current moment—to stimulate new and informal ways of thinking about the classroom.
Co-curated with Carol Padberg, Rico Reyes, Marisa Williamson, and Caroline Woolard.
Supported by the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation and Hartford Art School Faculty Development Grant.
Visit @readingroom_space to learn more about the activities and projects.
Interview I did with Arien Wilkerson and domsentfrommars on their collaboration for the Reading Room titled Unmaking Queerness: lovepiece engagement 1. Each public program for Reading Room collaborated with Spring 2019 classes across the University of Hartford. This program collaborated with a class that I offered at the Hartford Art School titled UNMAKING ART/UNMAKING SELF: Women of Color Feminist Art & Visual Culture and Kathryn Lance’s Human Sexual Behavior class in the Psychology Department.