ABOUT ME
Art Educator / Artivist
Dr. Kevin Jenkins is a visiting assistant professor of art education at Texas State University, where he teaches courses in EC-12 art teacher preparation as well as art integration for the elementary generalist. He also supervises student teachers in EC-12 art.
Previously as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, he taught courses in understanding the art experiences of children, youth, and adults, and the visual cultures of diverse populations with respect to concerns of social and political equity. He also created and taught a graduate/undergraduate course Trans Identities & Histories in Visual Culture. He earned his PhD in Art Education (2018) at the University of North Texas. His dissertation, titled Dis/appearance, In/visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative & Multimodal Inquiry, earned the 2019 university-wide Toulouse Dissertation Award, in the Social Sciences division and was nominated for the National Art Education Association 2020 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education. At UNT, he also served as a teaching fellow (2014-2017) for preservice art education courses in contemporary global art/artists and digital technologies in the art classroom. |
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Transitioning to a pandemic pedagogy?
In 2020, I served on the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture's online instruction crisis team to help in our sudden shift to online instructional delivery.
I created a series of videos to help those needing basics in how to use technology to transition their content to online formats. The playlist above is specific to Canvas LMS, but my YouTube teaching channel has some content for Blackboard and more to help with other content, such as curated playlists to accompany art appreciation courses. |
He is an artivist, vlogger, curriculum designer, and educator of trans experience whose research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space that serves as a pedagogical tool and a site for activism.
His national and international conference presentations include “You Shall (Not) Pass!: In/visibility and Public Bathroom Use” (ICQI 2015) and “We Come in Pee-ce: Social Media Transgender Artivism in the Bathroom Debate” (NWSA 2016). His recent publications include "Cissexism and Precarity Perform Trans Subjectivities" in the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, "Jumping the Gun: Uncritical Trans Ally Artivism Post-HB2" in Visual Culture & Gender, "(Re)born Digital — Trans-Affirming Research, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: An Interactive Multimodal Story Using Twine" in the journal Visual Arts Research, book chapter “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education (Palgrave Macmillan), and "Ontology of the Pee-Cock Gen2 3-in-1" in the International Journal of Education through Art (IJETA) special issue, Speculative realism(s): Objects/ Matter/ Entanglements of Art and Design Education. Kevin's forthcoming book chapter, "Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored" in Women's Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism + Art (NAEA) will be published in 2021.
In partnership with Adetty Pérez de Miles, Kevin has produced "Introducing Zoe," an interactive multimodal story as well as an online art unit of study for high school, Trans-Affirmative Art Education Curriculum.
His national and international conference presentations include “You Shall (Not) Pass!: In/visibility and Public Bathroom Use” (ICQI 2015) and “We Come in Pee-ce: Social Media Transgender Artivism in the Bathroom Debate” (NWSA 2016). His recent publications include "Cissexism and Precarity Perform Trans Subjectivities" in the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, "Jumping the Gun: Uncritical Trans Ally Artivism Post-HB2" in Visual Culture & Gender, "(Re)born Digital — Trans-Affirming Research, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: An Interactive Multimodal Story Using Twine" in the journal Visual Arts Research, book chapter “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education (Palgrave Macmillan), and "Ontology of the Pee-Cock Gen2 3-in-1" in the International Journal of Education through Art (IJETA) special issue, Speculative realism(s): Objects/ Matter/ Entanglements of Art and Design Education. Kevin's forthcoming book chapter, "Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored" in Women's Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism + Art (NAEA) will be published in 2021.
In partnership with Adetty Pérez de Miles, Kevin has produced "Introducing Zoe," an interactive multimodal story as well as an online art unit of study for high school, Trans-Affirmative Art Education Curriculum.
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