Biography
Meghan is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture & Film and Media Studies. She studies histories of visual culture, museums, and media, as well as questions about cultural authority and cultural value. She is interested in how art circulates to different publics through museums, movies, television, and the Internet. Meghan has a background in art and museum education which fuels her interest in what influences how people learn from and decode visual objects. She is passionate about critical and creative pedagogy within both academia and museums and exploring ways for her research to be more accessible and engaging to broader audiences.
Meghan loves to share her experience with others and is happy to field questions about graduate education in HAA and FMS!
Education Details
Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture and Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh, in progress
M.A., Art and Visual Culture Education, concentration Museums and Community, University of Arizona, 2023
Thesis: Screen Education: Using Exhibitions to Research Museums and Learning through Film
B.A., History of Art and Architecture, minor Museum Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Thesis: Insignificant in the Image of Time: Confronting Spectator Dominance in the Representation of American Landscapes
Selected Presentations
“Edu-curation & Research Practice,” ART160D1 Museums as Cultural and Community Institutions, University of Arizona, 2023
“TV in the Art Room: Using Movies & TV to Teach Art, History, and Media Literacy,” National Association of Media Literacy Educators, 2022
“Media Literacy & Art Education,” ARE360 Creative Art Methods, University of Arizona, 2022
“History and Critique of the Art Museum,” ART150B1 Engaging Visual Culture, University of Arizona, 2021, 2022
Public Projects
Curator, Screen Education, Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, 2023
Co-Curator, Why Color? A Class Residency for Edu-Curation, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, 2022
Symposia Organized
Co-Chair, Emerging Conversations Symposium, (Un)framing Borders: Sharing Knowledge Across Boundaries of Art, Visual Culture, and Education, University of Arizona, 2022. Emergingconvos.com