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Patty Bode has been advocating for students from under-represented and under-served communities throughout her activist teaching career. For sixteen years as a public school teacher and the past five years at Tufts-SMFA, her work has focused on art teacher and classroom teacher practices that redefine multicultural education and art education as a civil right. Her work in critical pedagogy examines the role of visual culture in contemporary art curriculum. For her work in advancing art education as essential to full participation in a democratic society, Patty has received various awards.

Her recent book co-authored with Sonia Nieto, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, 6th edition was released in May 2011 (copyright 2012).

Spring 2012 Professional presentations:

• NAEA National Art Education Association. New York, NY. March 2012. Intertwining, Informing, and Intersecting Social Theory: Dialogue on teaching, learning and research in art education. Co-presented with Alice Pennisi, Olivia Gude, Kryssi Staikidis.
• NAEA National Art Education Association. New York, NY. March 2012. Laundromat learning, teaching and more: Connecting community-based art-making and alternative art spaces. Co-presented with Maya Valladares. The prezi can be found free online by search our names or the title of the talk at prezi.com
• NAEA National Art Education Association. New York, NY. March 2012. Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education. As Coordinator of CSTAE, chairing 3 business meetings.
• GCC Greenfield Community College. Greenfield, MA. February 2012. Social Action and Art: African American History & Contemporary U.S. Culture. Keynote address for Black History Month.

Fall 2011 Professional presentations:

• MAEA Massachusetts Art Education Association. Hyannis, MA.  Critical Curriculum Affirming Multiple Identities in the 21st Century. November 12, 2011.
• NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. Chicago.  Imagining things being otherwise: Arts and criticality. Co-presenter with Vera Stenhouse and Kathy McDonough. November 2, 2011.
• Tufts University, Dept of Education Teaching as Civic Engagement Conference. Theme: Immigrant Youth and School: What Teachers and Communities Need to Know. Invited panelist: Art and the Immigrant Experience inside and outside the classroom. Co-presented with Francisco Mendez-Diez. October 29, 2011.
• PAEA. Pennsylvania Art Education Association. Gettysburg, PA. Keynote address. Rethinking Dedication to Patriotism in Art Education. October 22, 2011.
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Adapting Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms. Guest lecturer. October 17, 2011.
• RISD Rhode Island School of Design. Providence. Teaching & Learning in Art & Design Education Dept. Invited lecture. Practices in Postmodern Art Education. October 6, 2011.

News and Events

Kay Furst is awarded Special Needs Art Educator of the Year in Massachusetts!

The Massachusetts Art Education Association has named Tufts-SMFA Art Education faculty member, Kay Furst Massachusetts Special Needs Art Educator of the Year for 2012! Kay currently teaches two undergraduate courses: Art Education and Human Development with Multicultural Perspectives and Art Education with Special Populations, and starting in Summer 2012 she will teach  a graduate level version of Art Ed with Special Populations as well. Kay does all this with deep insight and a warm sense of humor while teaching full-time in Natick Public Schools. We are honored to announce this well deserved award. The MAEA awards ceremony is November 12, 2011 in Hyannis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Patty Bode introduced Kay Furst to the audience at MAEA

Kay Furst

Russell School Family Arts Night.

October 25, 2011

Families and students of the Russell Elementary School, a PK-5 Boston Public School in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood spent the evening of October 25, 2011 engaged in art-making with graduate students of the Tufts University Master of Arts in Teaching, Art Education program. This was the second annual Russell School Family Arts Night which was launched as part of the Step-Up Initiative of School-University partnerships in Boston. Patty Bode, Director of Art Education for Tufts University, and 19 graduate students worked closely with Carmen Rodriguez, Family and Community Outreach Coordinator and Tamara Blake-Canty, Principal of the William E. Russell School to facilitate the event that was attended by over 300 participants. After enjoying a pizza dinner, the grandparents, parents, siblings and Russell students collaborated to make marbelized paper, hand-crafted kites, painted gourds, autumn trees, leaf prints,  a hand-print-garden mural, two large murals depicting their school, and much more. All activities were presented with bilingual Spanish-English signs and translators floated throughout the activities to support full participation. Everybody went home with lots of art work, a big smile, and just a little bit of paint on their hands.

Click here to download Bilingual List of Art Activities from Russell School Family Arts Night.

Click here to download Bilingual Flier from Russell School Family Arts Night.

Students and parents paint the Russell School Mural

Painting gourds on Family Arts Night

Making "leaf people" and marbleized paper

Commencement 2011 was a festive day for TUFTS-SMFA MAT, Art Ed graduates at Tufts University Medford campus in the morning and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the evening. Click here to see photo gallery of commencement festivities.

The 2011 Art Ed graduates celebrate!

The Tufts-SMFA ART EDUCATION FESTIVAL was a huge success!

The 2011 cohort of MAT, Art Ed students at the end of the May 4th Art Ed Festival Reception

2010 NATIONAL ART EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR for HIGHER EDUCATION for Eastern Region

In spring of 2010 at the convention of the National Art Education Association in Baltimore, the Higher Education Division  of NAEA awarded Patty Bode  National Art Educator of Year of Eastern Region!

MASSACHUSETTS ART EDUCATORS OF THE YEAR 2010

We have some very exciting news. In November of 2009, the Massachusetts Art Education Association (which is the state chapter of the National Art Education Association) announced its awards for 2010 Massachusetts Art Educator of the Year in the following categories:

Elementary school, middle school, secondary school, higher education, supervisor/administrator and special needs art educator.

Of those 6 categories, our Tufts University/SMFA Art Education program faculty members have been selected for three awards!

MIDDLE SCHOOL MASSACHUSETTS ART EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR for 2010 has been awarded to Kristen Ripley who is a full-time middle school art teacher in Belmont, Massachusetts and also co-teaches EDS 173 & EDS 174 Seminar in Student Teaching in Art. Kristen.ripley@tufts.edu

SUPERVISOR/ADMINISTRATOR MASSACHUSETTS ART EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR for 2010 has been awarded to Marie Shack who is a full-time art teacher and arts administrator in Wilmington Public Schools and for fourteen years, Marie has been teaching 3 courses for us: EDS 177 Art Ed Foundations for 5th-12th, EDS 180 Art Ed Field Studies for 5th-12th and EDS 178 for 5th-12th. Marie.shack@tufts.edu. We wish Marie well in her retirement from our program in May 2010.

HIGHER EDUCATION MASSACHUSETTS ART EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR for 2010 has been awarded to Patty Bode, our Director of Art Education who teaches EDS 175 & 177 Art Education Foundations and EDS 173 & EDS 174 Seminar in Student Teaching in Art.  Patty.bode@tufts.edu

The awards ceremony took place on November 14, 2009 at the Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in Dartmouth, MA.