Kendall Crabbe is originally from Akron, Ohio. Currently, she lives in Tucson, Arizona. She earned her BA from Tufts University and her MA from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom). In 2022, Crabbe earned her PhD in Art and Visual Culture Education from the School of Art at the University of Arizona. Professionally, Crabbe is proud of her work teaching and preparing future art teachers in undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Arizona, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. She is also passionate about supporting in-service K-12 art teachers with professional development through multi-year professional development programs like “Thinking Experiences in the Art Museum” at the Art Institute of Chicago, and most recently as the National Content Manager for Visual and Media Arts in the Connected Arts Networks (CAN). CAN was a multi-year grant initiative to create nationwide virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with educators in visual and media arts, music, theater, and dance.
As a scholar, Crabbe employs critical theoretical frameworks focused on participatory action research (PAR) in the arts with preservice, in-service art educators, and youth. Her dissertation is titled, “Intergenerational Counternarratives of Creative Agency: Reimagining Inclusive Practices Through Youth Participatory Action Research,” for which she was awarded the Elliot Eisner dissertation runner up award. She has published her scholarship in peer reviewed journals like Art Education, the Journal of Museum Education, Visual Art Research, the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, and most recently the Arts Education Policy Review. Crabbe also served for four years as the inaugural Assistant Editor of Art Education, a flagship journal for the National Art Education Association. She was recently nominated to join NAEA’s Research Commission. She engages participatory pedagogies in art education graduate, undergraduate, K-12, museum, and community-based contexts.
Her favorite part of teaching at RMCAD is supporting art education students from all over the country to become certified, confident, and culturally sustaining K-12 art teachers! When she’s not working, she spends time with her husband and two children, enjoying the Sonoran desert they call home. They love to hike, make art, and play sports together. Fun fact: she used to be a competitive springboard diver.
Course Credentialing
AE1113 – Ceramics for Educators: Independent Studio, AE1160 – Printmaking for Educators, AE1170 – Sculpture for Educators, AE2000 – Art Education Sophomore Portfolio Review, AE2215 – Introduction to Art Education, AE2220 – Philosophy of Art + Education, AE2230 – Psychology of Creativity, AE2241 – Design for Learning, AE3000 – Art Education Junior Portfolio Review, AE3221 – Equity in Learning, AE3241 – Critical Issues in Art Education, AE3263 – Methods of Art Education, K-12 Part I, AE3264 – Methods of Art Education, K-12 Part II, AE3281 – Assessing Learning + Teaching, AE4246 – Learning Environment, AE4256 – Student Teaching I, AE4266 – Student Teaching II, AE4933 – Student Teaching Seminar Part I, AE4934 – Student Teaching Seminar Part II
