core art education faculty
Dr. Flávia Bastos experiences with teaching, research and academic leadership have provided a platform to explore the dialectics of local and international influences in art education theory and practice. She completed her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University in 1999. Since then she has been committed to building transformative connections between art education and communities through publications, editorial work, public speaking, teaching, and service based on contemporary understandings of community, culture, and art that are informed by transformative educational models. Her contributions to the art education profession have been recognized with the Mary J. Rouse Award (2006) and the Ziegfeld Award (2008). These two significant honors suggest the relevance of her scholarship and practice in the field and have grounded her service as senior editor of the Journal of Art Education (2009-10). Her leadership in the field of art education extends beyond the program at UC, informing her election to Higher Education Division Director (2013-15) for the National Art Education Association and selection the Council of Policy Studies in Art Education in 2012.
Email: flavia.bastos@uc.edu Tel: 513-556-2520 Office Location: 4280D Aronoff Center
Dr. Vittoria S. Daiello, Associate Professor, teaches arts-based writing, research, and pedagogical methods in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. Vittoria holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University (2005/2010) and a B.F.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University (1999). Vittoria’s teaching experiences include K-12 art classroom contexts, multidisciplinary artist-in-residence projects in public schools, and writing across the curriculum program outreach. Informed by psychoanalytic theory and composition studies, Vittoria’s research of writing occurring within arts and design studio practices investigates the educational potential of expression impasses—those sites/sights of perception that resist capture within discrete disciplinary frameworks. A recipient of the Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award (OSU, 2016), Daiello’s research is represented in the proceedings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), the National Art Education Association (NAEA), Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE), and the 1st Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research. Peer-reviewed publications include Visual Arts Research Journal, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, Creative Approaches to Research Journal, and The Handbook of Arts-Based Research (P. Leavy, Ed.).
Email: vicki.daiello@uc.edu Tel: 513-556-2962 Office Location: 4280A Aronoff Center
Dr. Kristopher Justin Holland received his M.A. from New York University, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Art Education from Indiana University. Dr. Holland is a practicing artist and philosopher whose current research interests are: philosophical inquiry methodologies, arts-based research, art & design teacher education, deconstruction, contemporary art and critical theory. He is the director of Art and Publications for the Žižekian Institute for Research, Inquiry, and Pedagogy & the International Žižek Studies Conference. He has recently give guest lectures at New York University on the topic of Jean Baudrillard and ‘Post-Art’. He is presently researching the role inquiry plays in educational curriculum within PK-12 Schooling with projects connected to Hughes STEM High School and the Nelson Mandela International School in Berlin, Germany. He collaboratively runs an afterschool arts-based inquiry program and participates in the Hughes STEM HS Summer Scholars Program as a curriculum advisor and educator. He also co-directs the biannual Berlin Summer Studio Arts Inquiry (’13, ’15, ’17) program in collaboration with the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin running again in 2019. He is the Director of Visual Arts & Design Education State Licensure for the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. His conceptual art work The Habermas Machine was cited in James Rolling Jr.’s Arts-Based Research: A Primer, published in 2013 and was exhibited in 2015. His forthcoming books include: To The Derridean Sun: Deconstruction as Experience as well as John Dewey and Post-Art: Pragmatic Aesthetics at the End of Art, and the co-authored On Being a Fatal Theorist: Jean Baudrillard’s Strategy for the Anthropocene. By combining the fields of philosophy, art, and education, his work seeks to spark agency for students in the creative fields for social change and educative innovation.
Email: kristopher.holland@uc.edu Tel: 513-556-2120 Office Location: 4280B Aronoff Center
Nandita Baxi Sheth works at the intersections of Art, Education, and Community as Assistant Director Academic in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Her undergraduate studies took place at Rice University in Houston, TX where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies, Art and Art History, and English. She has a Masters of Community Planning from DAAP. In 2015 she obtained a Masters in Visual Arts Education and Ohio State Licensure in Visual Arts Education. She engages the College with strategic Community Partnerships and as part of that role is DAAP’s Liaison to the UC/Hughes STEM HS Initiative; helping lead the design, coordination, and implementation of after school programming, college access experiences, and summer bridge programming with UC’s neighboring community high school and the Cincinnati Public School District at large. Additionally, she serves as DAAP’s Liaison for Equity and Inclusion and leads the College wide Equity and Inclusion Team. She also instructs Field Experience and Trans Disciplinary courses within the Art Education Licensure program in the School of Art at DAAP. Her research interests include: the application of art and science inquiry methodologies to consider “wicked problems”; the curricular impacts of art and technology on education; exploration and development of trans disciplinary STEAM initiatives, and using the lenses of affect theory and aesthetics to consider alternate forms of assessment. In Fall 2016 she taught a University Honors Course in collaboration with the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences called Sticky Innovation.
Email: nandita.shet@uc.edu Tel: Office Location: 5470T Arnoff Center
affiliated faculty
Due to the expansive and flexible nature of the program, many DAAP faculty will be secondary faculty including: Kate Bonansinga, Dr. Bain Butcher, Amanda Curreri, Joe Girandola, Dr. Leah Hollstein, Dr. Danilo Palazzo, Jordan Tate, Craig Vogel, Michael Zaretsky, and others.