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Rebecca Keller

Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Role: Professor, Adj. Sculpture, Art Education, Art History, Theory, and Criticism (1994). 

Education: BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; MFA: Northern Illinois University. 

Exhibitions: Evanston Art Center; Skopelos Foundation for the Arts; MCA, Chicago; Chesterwood, MA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Hull House, Chicago; WaldKunst Biennial, Germany; Galerie IMZ, Germany; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Tartu Art Museum, Estonia. 

Publications: What is Revolutionary Art Today?, Block Gallery, Northwestern University; Excavating History, Stepsister Press; Uncovering Stories: Site-complicit Art, The Socially Purposeful Museum, Leicester University; essays for the Frans Hals Museum, Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Travelers, Tale-telling, Truth, and Time/Art and Public History, Rowman and Littlefield.. 

Bibliography: "The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology"; Sculpture Magazine; Bad at Sports; MutualArt; Hyperallergic. 

Books: Excavating History/Stepsister Press You Should Have Known (novel) Crooked Lane Books. 

Awards: Fulbright Artist, American Association of Museums; National Endowment for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council, President's Urban Initiative. 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This advanced, interdisciplinary course provides a generative space for developing and understanding creative projects through the discourse of the field of Sculpture. Students in this course come together from various departments to enrich the content of their work through critique and conversation with Sculpture faculty and other advanced level students from across the school. Weekly readings inform the development of self-directed creative projects which form the basis for discussion and may form the basis for a thesis body of work.

Class Number

1778

Credits

3

Description

This course addresses the complexities of teaching a studio art or seminar course at the college level. Various teaching approaches and structures will be explored including leading discussions about ideas and art, conducting critiques, working with diverse groups and individuals, instructional design (curriculum, syllabus, project assignments, etc.) and demonstrating and presenting ideas and materials. We will examine issues related to arts assessment for individuals and for institutions. We will consider evolving conceptions of teaching in different higher education contexts?art schools, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and research universities. Gain practical knowledge about teaching strategies. Develop your own teaching philosophy, portfolio and curriculum examples. Assemble a 'tool kit' to build your teaching career.

Class Number

1899

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2331

Credits

3 - 6