EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2008

Master of Arts in Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1997

Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1997

Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1988

EDITORIAL

Instructional Resources Coordinator, Art Education, The Journal of the National Art Education Association, 2008-2010

Co-Editor, Trends, The Journal of the Texas Art Education Association, 2009-11

Reviewer, Trends, The Journal of the Texas Art Education Association, 2008-09

PUBLICATIONS

Kundu, R. & Mayer, M. (2009). Visual culture studies and museum education. Journal manuscript in progress.

Kundu, R. (2009). The politics of teaching:  Discursive formations in the art history survey. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG. Book manuscript in progress.

Yang, G., Suchan, T., & Kundu, R. (2009). TeachArt Wiki, the social construction of knowledge, and the dialogic. Journal manuscript under review.

Yang, G. & Kundu, R. (2009).  TeachArt Wiki and nnarratives of knowing. In M. L. Buffington and S. W. McKay (Eds.), Seeing the power of teacher researchers. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association Press. Book chapter in press.

Kundu, R. (2009). Power and resistance: The relevance of discourse analysis to a classroom. In M. L. Buffington and S. W. McKay (Eds.), Seeing the power of teacher researchers. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association Press. Book chapter in press.

Kundu, R. (2009). The power to communicate:  Museums and practices in relation to diversity. Trends. In press.

Barrett, T., Chevers, I., Evans, L., Girardot, K., Kundu, R., & Savage S. (2009). A conversation about mentoring. Visual Arts Research. In press.

Kundu, R. (2008) The discursive formation of an art history survey classroom. Dissertations & theses: A&I database. (Publication No. AAT 3313048).

Kundu, R. & Bain, C. (2006). Webquests:  Utilizing technology in a constructivist manner to facilitate meaningful pre-service learning. Art Education, 59(2), 6-11.

Kundu, R. (2000). Sally Mann's Immediate Family. In T. Barrett (Author), Criticizing photographs: An introduction to understanding images (pp. 172-174).  Mountain View, California:  Mayfield Publishing Company.

Kundu, R. (1999). Museum discourse: Negotiating the fragments. Marilyn Zurmuehlen working papers in art education, 15, 71-80.

Wrote family guides for the 1996-2000 exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, including
Shirin Neshat: Two Installations;
Ernesto Neto: Sister Naves;
Gerhard Richter: Wexner Center Prize;
Eva Hesse: Area;
Brice Marden: Work Books;
Mark Dion: Cabinets of Curiosities for the Wexner Center for the Arts;
Viewing Olmstead: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James; Evidence: Photography and Site;
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: In a Restless World;
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 19445.

Kundu, R. (1992). The de Bry family, publishers of the Grand Voyages (1590-1634). In M. van de Guchte (Ed.), Raw Americans, cooked Europeans: Images of the "other" in sixteenth-century European illustrated books (pp. 19-21).  Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

Kundu, R. (Artist). (1990). Untitled. Calvert Literary Magazine.  College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Press.

EXHIBITIONS

Co-curated exhibition Raw Americans, cooked Europeans: Images of the "other" in sixteenth-century European illustrated books at the Krannert Art Museum and the Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (1992).

GRANTS

Received University of North Texas Gallery, Visiting Artists, and Scholars grant (2009), for $1500, to bring Associate Professor of Art Education Olivia Gude to the College of Visual Arts and Design for a the third annual D. Jack Davis Lecture Series and workshop with area communities.

Received Edward and Betty Marcus Digital Education Project for Texas Art Museums Mini-Grant (2007-8), for $5,100, with colleague Jennifer Way, to support student-directed Pachyderm authoring for a learning module that investigates select works from the unstudied permanent collection at UNT.  Module was displayed in the exhibition Collections, Cultures and Collaborations from January- March of 2008 and a visitor’s study was conducted.

Received Humanities Texas Mini-Grant, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2007-8), for $1,200, with colleague Jennifer Way, to support the public lecture Permanent Collections in Regional and National Contexts and the student workshop Collections, Cultures and Collaborations: Do We Need Objects Anymore? by Steven Conn.

Received several grants to support teacher, school, and family programs at the Wexner Center for the Arts (1999-2002) from such corporations Marshall Fields & Company for $15,000, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation for $24,000, and Borden for $30,000; and the Ohio Arts Council for $16,000.

INVITED PARTICIPANT ON GRANTS

Consultant for Jennifer Way’s Learning Enhancement Grant, for $10,000, from the Center for Learning Enhancement at the University of North Texas (2008-present), to evaluate the Modern and Contemporary Art Resource and Archive, a wiki created to provide the College of Visual Arts and Design community. with electronically accessible and on going scholarship in the form of book and exhibition reviews by students.

Project collaborator on Chair Kelly Donahue Wallace’s Hispanic and Global Studies Initiatives Fund (2007-8), for $4,164, Humanities Texas Mini Grant (2007-8), for $6,000, and the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art Grant, for $7,550, to teach Hispanic Art in Texas: An Interdisciplinary Teacher Institute and support the interactive multimedia resource that was distributed to teachers.

Research collaborator for Guey Meei Yang’s Efellows Faculty Awards (2006-7), for $5,500, at Eastern Michigan University, to study the effects of multi-narratives podcasting and social networking on participants’ art viewing experiences and meaning making approaches.

Project collaborator on Chair Jacqueline Chanda’s Texas Council for the Humanities grant (2004), for $3,600, to teach the North Texas Institute for Educators in the Visual Arts teachers’ workshop Works of Art as Modes of Knowledge: An Exploration of the Concept Manifest Destiny.                       

Researcher for Susan Huntington and John Huntington’s Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant (1998-2003), for $20, 000, to conduct study entitled Assessment and Evaluation of the History of Art 213: Asian Art, which has led to a multi-million dollar FIPSE grant.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art Education and
Art History                                                                                 2008-present Lecturer                                                                                     2003-2008
Graduate
AEAH 5763: Theories in Criticism and Aesthetics
ART 5845: Critical Theory
AEAH 5850: Proposal Writing
AEAH 5940: Seminar in Art Museums
AEAH 5942: Museum Education I
AEAH 5945: Museum Education II
AEAH 5450: Museum Internship
AEAH 6783:  Multimedia
AEAH 6787: Introduction to Research in Art Education
Undergraduate                                                                                  
ART 1300: Online Art Appreciation for Non-Art Majors
AEAH 3750: Children and Art
AEAH 4940: Art Museums                                                              
AEAH 4760: Global Aesthetics                                                       
AEAH 4770: Technology and the Visual Arts
AEAH 4795: Topics in Visual Arts Studies
ART 4845: Criticism and Aesthetics                                                                
ART 3850: Materials and Processes                                                
       

The Ohio State University, Newark, Ohio
Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Art Education      2002-2003

Art 162: Concepts and Issues in Art
Art Education160: Contemporary Art and Music
Art Education 600: Art for Elementary Teachers

 

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Instructor, Department of Art Education                                   1999-2002
Art Education 795: Infusing the Arts into the Curriculum

Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Art Education     1993-1996

Lecturing Associate                                                                   1995-1996
Art Education 160: Contemporary Art and Music Recitation Leader                                                                                       1993-1995
Art Education 160: Contemporary Art and Music

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History                         1992
Art History 115: Art Appreciation

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Writing Center Tutor, Department of English                            1989-1990

 

MUSEUM EDUCATION AND ARTS ADMINISTRATION

Department of Education, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Assistant Director of Education                                                  2001-2002
Educator for Teacher and School Programs                               1999-2001 Administrative Associate                                                            1995-1998

CLASSROOM TEACHING

Clarfield Elementary School, Columbus Public Schools, Columbus, Ohio 
Art Teacher                                                                                1997-1998

Montgomery County Department of Recreation, Silver Spring, Maryland
Public School Art Instructor at Takoma Park Elementary School
                                                                                                  1988-1990

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of North Texas, Department of Art Education and Art History, Denton, Texas
Conducting study entitled The Normalizing Gaze: Art Education and Film Studies, with graduate students Lori Santos and Andres Peralta.
                                                                                                 2009-present

University of North Texas, Department of Art Education and Art History, Denton, Texas
Conducting study entitled Continually Becoming Art Education Researchers
within a Graduate Community, with Nadine Kalin.                    2008-present

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Assessed and evaluated teacher and school programming.     1998-2002

The Ohio State University, Department of Art Education, Columbus, Ohio
Conducted ethnographic research on artists to develop exhibition narrative for African Influences in Contemporary Art: Artists of the Kwanzaa Playground at the Columbus Museum of Art.                                               1996-1997

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Curatorial Assistant, Krannert Art Museum and the Kinkead Pavilion selected and researched works for exhibition from the museum's permanent collection of Indian miniatures and prepared text labels.
                                                                                                   1991-1992

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Curatorial Intern, Department of Graphic Arts
Researched objects in the permanent collection to prepare text labels for three exhibitions.                                                                        1991

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Assistant, Slide Library, Department of Art History
Conducted research to catalogue collection.                              1990

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Papers at Regional, National, and International ConferencesTexas Art Education Association
Faculty Research Forum--The Discursive Formation of an Art History Survey Classroom (2008)
Technology Today in Education—Possibilities, Potential, and Pitfalls, with Christina Bain, Stephen Carpenter, and Diane Gregory, Galveston, Texas (2007)
How Visual Culture Studies Can Change Touring Practices, with Melinda Mayer, Galveston, Texas (2007)
Museums and Visual Culture:  An Introduction to Film Education, Fort Worth, Texas (2006)

National Art Education Association
NAEA MUSEUM DIVISION ISSUES FORUM PANEL—Negotiating New Ground:  The Internal and External Impact of the Changing Learning Environment, with Kate Rawlinson, Susan Rotilie, and Rachel Varon, Baltimore, Maryland (2010)
Writing for Art Education, with Flavia Bastos, Pamela Taylor, and Kristine Donnelly, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2009)
TeachArt Wiki, with Guey-Meei Yang and Tom Suchan, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2009)
Provoke Me:  How Visual Cultural Studies Can Change Touring Practices, with Melinda Mayer, New York, New York (2007)
The Museum Educator as Provocateur, with Melinda Mayer, Chicago, Illinois (2006)
Visuality:  Inside and Out, with A.J. Olson, Chicago, Illinois (2006)
Webquests and Constructivist Learning, with Christina Bain, Boston, Massachusetts  (2005)
Cooking Up Contact, with A.J. Olson, Denver, Colorado(2004)
Rethinking the Teaching of Art History, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2003)
The Museum Classroom, New York, New York(2001)
Art History, Technology, and Assessment, with Tom Suchan, Los Angeles, California (2000)
Museum Discourse: Negotiating the Fragments, Washington, D.C. (1999)
Career Pathways at an Art Center, Washington, D.C. (1999)
Museum Education: Creating a Dialogue, New Orleans, Louisiana (1997)
Developing a Customized Interactive Text: Continuing the Discourse about Art, with Susan Myers, Baltimore, Maryland (1995)

International Network of Performing & Visual Arts Schools
Career Pathways, Columbus, Ohio(1998)

Invited Lectures
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Will present The Visual Mediation of Reality as part of a lecture series for the exhibition Ring of Truth (2009).

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Presented gallery discussion on exhibition Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire for the State Committee Leaders (2000).

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Presented gallery talk on exhibition Eva Hesse: Area for the public (1998).

National Colloquium for Teaching Contemporary Art, How History and Culture Come Together as Art, Department of Art Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Presented gallery discussion on the exhibition African Influences in Contemporary Art: Artists of the Kwanzaa Playground at the Columbus Museum of Art for teachers (1997).

Workshops
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Will present Visual Cultural and Interpretive Strategies as part of a tour guide education workshop series Learning Theories and Best Practices (2009).

Fort Worth Independent School District, Fort Worth, Texas
Presented in-service workshop Wayang Kulit:  The Art of Shadow Puppets for teachers (2006).

Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
Presented workshop Engaging Audiences in Meaning Making for tour guides (2006).

Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas
Presented workshop Engaging Visitors with Interactive Tours for tour guides (2006).

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Conducted workshop on the exhibition African Influences in Contemporary Art: Artists of the Kwanzaa Playground for tour guides (1997).

 

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Hold memberships in organizations, include National Art Education Association (NAEA), the Caucus for Social Theory and Art Education (CSTAE), the United States Society for Education Through Art (USSEA), the American Educational Research Association (AERA),the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA), the American Association of Museums (AAM), and the Museum Education Roundtable (MER), (present).

Planning and facilitating assessment and evaluation of ArtThink at the Dallas Contemporary Museum with graduate students in AEAH 5942: Museum Education I (2009-present).

Planning and facilitating curriculum planning for the Meadows Museum of Art with graduate students in AEAH 5942 Museum Education I (2009-present).

Planned and facilitated gallery programming for On the Body: Selected Work from The Rachofsky Collection at the University of North Texas Art Gallery, with graduate students in AEAH 5942: Museum Education I (2008-2009).

Serving on the Greater Denton Arts Council’s Exhibition and Education Committee (2007-present).

Planned and implemented Super Arts Saturdays family events, Material Mania and Picturing Our World, at the Greater Denton Arts Council in Denton, Texas, with graduate students from AEAH 5942: Museum Education I and undergraduate students volunteers (2007-2009).

Planned and implemented workshop series Meaningful Matters, workshops led by Terry Barrett, at three venues, the Dallas Contemporary, in Dallas, Texas, the Modern Museum of Fort Worth, in Fort Worth, Texas, and the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas (2008).

Planned teacher pre-visit materials for the Sid Richardson Museum, in Fort Worth, Texas, with graduate students in AEAH 5942:  Museum Education I (2007).

Planned exhibition narrative for the Webb House in Colleyville, Texas, with graduate students in AEAH 5945: Museum Education II and the Colleyville Historical Preservation Committee (2007).

Offered workshop Story Quilts for Super Arts Saturdays at the Greater Denton Arts Council, in Denton, Texas, with the help of University of North Texas art education undergraduate and graduate students (2006).

Served on the Greater Denton Arts Council’s Visual Arts Sub-Committee in Denton, Texas (2006-2007).

Served on the Central Ohio Education Consortium (1999-2002), Columbus Public School's Career Pathways: Arts and Communications Advisory Council (1999-2002) and The Christopher Program's Arts Advisory Board (1999-2002) in Columbus, Ohio.

Served as juror for the Columbus Public School High School Exhibition (2001) and the Godman Guild Centennial Celebration (1998), in Columbus, Ohio.