Originally from Akron and now based in Tucson, Kendall Crabbe is an art educator and scholar whose work centers on participatory pedagogies, action research, and culturally sustaining practices in art education. She earned her BA from Tufts University, her MA from the University of East Anglia, and her PhD in Art and Visual Culture Education from the University of Arizona School of Art in 2022.
Crabbe has taught and prepared future art educators 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 especially passionate about supporting art education students as they become certified, confident, and culturally sustaining K–12 visual art teachers across the country.
In addition to her university teaching, Crabbe has extensive experience supporting in-service educators through long-term professional development initiatives. Her work has included “Thinking Experiences in the Art Museum” at the Art Institute of Chicago and serving as National Content Manager for Visual and Media Arts in the Connected Arts Networks (CAN), a multi-year initiative that created nationwide virtual professional learning communities for educators across the arts disciplines.
As a scholar, Crabbe employs critical theoretical frameworks focused on participatory action research in collaboration with preservice and in-service art educators and youth. Her dissertation, Intergenerational Counternarratives of Creative Agency: Reimagining Inclusive Practices Through Youth Participatory Action Research, received the Elliot Eisner Dissertation Runner-Up Award. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Art Education, Journal of Museum Education, Visual Art Research, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, and Arts Education Policy Review.
Crabbe also served for four years as the inaugural Assistant Editor of Art Education, the flagship journal of the National Art Education Association, and was recently nominated to join the organization’s Research Commission.
Outside of teaching and scholarship, Crabbe enjoys spending time with her husband and two children in the Sonoran Desert. Together they enjoy hiking, making art, and playing sports.
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
