Mira Reisberg Vita

Education
2003-2006 PhD in Cultural Studies. Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Dissertation title – Visionary voices: Exploring the art and ideas of multicultural children’s book artists.
Anticipated defense Spring 2006

1998-2000 MFA in Studio Art (Painting and Digital Arts). Mills College, Oakland, CA.
Informal education encompasses a wide range of multimedia courses, further training in art, as well as courses in children’s literature.

Research Interests
A/r/tography and Arts Based Educational Research, Visual Culture Studies, Social Reconstructionist Arts Education, Place-Based Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, Post Colonial Theory, multicultural children’s literature, technology and education.Current Position: Instructor/Research Assistant

Courses Taught
2003 – 2005 Integrated Fine Arts Instructor – College of Education, Washington State
University, Pullman.

2004 – 2005 Survey of Children’s Literature Instructor – College of Education,
Washington State University, Pullman.

Recent Positions
2004 Art and literacy consultant for the San Bernadino County Office of Education: working with families in homeless shelters, and separately with migrant farm worker communities in a summer program. San Bernadino, CA

2000 – 2003 Illustrating and Publishing Children’s Picture Books Instructor – U.C Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA

1996 – 2003 Illustrating and Publishing Children’s Picture Books Instructor –San Francisco City College Extension, San Francisco, CA

1988 – 2003 K-12 Artist in the Schools through Children’s Book Press, San Francisco School Volunteers, and Santa Cruz School District’s SPECTRA artists in the schools programs.

1999 – 2000 Teaching assistant in Studio Art. Mills College, Oakland, CA

1997 – 2000 Art and literacy consultant for the Alameda County Office of Education: working with teachers conducting professional in-services, and working with homeless children in summer school settings. Alameda, CA

1998 Art and literacy consultant for the Libros Y Familias Program: working with migrant farm worker communities, and elementary school teachers conducting professional inservices. Independence, OR

Scholarly Articles
Reisberg, M. (2005). A tale of two curriculums: Juggling conflicting pedagogies. In F. W.
Parkay & E. Anctil (Eds.), Curriculum planning: A contemporary approach (8th ed.). Needham Height, MA: Allyn & Bacon

Reisberg, M. (in press). Integrated fine arts meets place-based pedagogy: Inspiring democratic
participation in pre-service educators. Democracy and Education.

Reisberg, M., Brander, B., & Gruenewald, D., A. (in press). Your place or mine: Reading art,
place and culture in multicultural children’s literature. Teacher Education Quarterly.

Children's Picture Books Illustrated
Moroney, L. (2004). Baby Rattlesnake. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Miller, E, (1999). Just like home. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. Chicago, Ill: Albert Whitman and Company.

Rohmer, H. (1998). Honoring our ancestors: Stories and pictures by fourteen artists. Featured writing and illustration by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Corpi , L. (1997). Where Fireflies Dance. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Rohmer, H. (1997). Just Like Me: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists. Children's Book Press. Featured writing and illustration by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Bresnick-Perry, R. (1992). Leaving for America. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Moroney, L. (1990). Elinda Who Danced in the Sky. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Rohmer, H. (1988). Uncle Nachos Hat. Illustrated by Mira Reisberg. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Sources Cited In
NEA (2005). 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know
http://www.nea.org/readacross/resources/50multibooks.html
National Education Association.

Yale-New Haven Teacher’s Institute (2005).
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/1/97.01.04.x.html

Kohl, M., A. (2003). Storybook Art: Hands-On Art for Children in the
Styles of 100 Great Picture Book Illustrators. Bellingham, WA:
Bright Ring Publications.

Anderson, N. (2002). Elementary Children’s Literature – The Basics for
Teachers and Parents Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon.

Gillespie, J., T. (1998)
Best books for children: Preschool through grade 6. (1998). New Providence,
New Jersey: R. R. Bowker.

Cohee Manifold, M. (1997) Picture Books as a Social Studies Resource in
the Elementary Classroom http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/pkbkdig.htm

Thompson Gale (1995). Something about the Author Vol. 81. Farmington
Hills, MI: Thompson Gale Publications.

University of New Mexico Curriculum project
http://www.unm.edu/~abqteach/usa/00-05-04.htm

Braley Feher Professional Studies Curriculum Development
http://paws.wcu.edu/bf15283/textset.html

Book Awards and Honors
2000 Where Fireflies Dance. Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist Award of the Texas Library Association.

2000 Honoring our ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists. Skipping Stones Honor Award.

2000 Just Like Me: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists. Small Press Book Award Finalist - Multicultural/Juvenile.

1997 Where Fireflies Dance. Americas Commended List - Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs.

1992 Leaving for America. San Francisco Chronicle "Best Bets of 1992."

1992 Baby Rattlesnake. Elementary School Library Collection Recommendation.

1990 Elinda who Danced in the Sky. Elementary School Library Collection Recommendation.

1989 Uncle Nacho’s Hat UNICEF award citation- Ezra Jack Keats Award Citation.

1989 Uncle Nacho’s Hat. Elementary School Library Collection Recommendation
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Other Awards
2005 Student nominated award for teacher excellence. Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2005 Laurence J. Peter Memorial Scholarship in Teacher Education Award.Washington State
University, Pullman, WA

1999 Trefethen Merit Fellowship Award.Mills College, Oakland, CA

1985 Award of Excellence Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA

1988-Present Selected Reviews of Picture Books
More than 30 book reviews in a variety of publications including: Kirkus Review, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine, and Booklist.

Videography
Created and/or featured in 8 video productions.

2005 Portrait of Maya Gonzalez. Created a 13 minute qualitative research portrait of multi-award winning children’s book artist Maya Gonzalez.

2005 Science Theater: Protecting our endangered animals. Created a 10 minute PSA video for cable access television documenting a class project with song and dance performances about local endangered animals and how to help conserve them.

2005 The Ten Plagues. Created a 3 minute animation on the ten plagues of Exodus referencing social justice issues.

2004 Blacks, whites and others: Developing a consciousness for healing.
Created a 30 minute video using text, film-clips, and personal animation with two cohorts.

2000 Yids and Goys. Hand drawn 2 minute animation film, contrasting
Judeo/Christian constructs and iconography.

1999 Celebrating Literacy. Featured with three other multicultural
children’s book authors and illustrators.

1998 El Amancer. Spanish language television program.Interviewed with author Lucha Corpi on the subject of bilingual children’s literature.

1997 Brave little girls: More than one kind of courage. Featured in video with one other children’s book illustrator for San Francisco Public Library’s exhibition on illustrators who empower young girls.

Conference Presentations
2006 Vision and Voice: Exploring the Images and Identities of Five Multicultural Children's Book Artists. AERA proposed paper.

2005 The Practice of Pleasure: Teaching for Social and Environmental Justice with Children’s Books and Art. Conference on Globalization and Diversity, Washington State University

2005 Conservative students meet progressive teaching in an integrated fine arts course. Conference on Globalization and Diversity, Washington State University. .

2004 Meetings at the intersection of art, race, and environment in children’s literature with Birgitte Brander. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Kansas City.

2004 Teaching across the curriculum with place-based multicultural children's literature and art, with Birgitte Brander. Imagination in Education Research Group Conference (IERG), Vancouver, Canada.

2004 Blacks, whites and others: Developing a consciousness for healing. Graduate Symposium: Toward a community of scholars. Co-produced and presented 30 minute video, and an interactive presentation on race, identity and representation.

2004 Drawing your way out of a box. Northern California Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCWBI) Asilomar, CA

2003 Art and Science Together Again workshop. Washington State Science Teachers
Association Conference (WSTA), Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2000 - 2003 Exploring culture with children’s literature and art.
Reading around the world: Multicultural Children’s Literature Conference. University of San Francisco, CA Presented literature arts workshops.

1997 Conducted multicultural arts workshop. Children’s Literature Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education.

1992 Panel discussion on multicultural children’s literature. (1992). University
of San Francisco, Multicultural Education Department.

Art Exhibitions
Featured in over 35 museum, gallery, and cultural center exhibitions throughout the US and Australia over a 30 year period. These include:

2005 Palouse and Other Pleasures. The Bank Left Gallery, Palouse, WA

2002-2005 Just Like Me - Exhibits USA nation-wide traveling exhibition
including:
2004 Danville Museum of Fine Art, Danville, Virginia
2004 Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA
2003 Braithwaite Fine Arts gallery, Cedar City, UT
2003 Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2002 Mesquite Arts Council, Mesquite, Texas
2002 Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council Texarkana, TX
2002 Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

2001-2003 Now and Then. MOCHA (Museum of Children’s Art), Oakland, CA

2002 Children's Book Illustrators. Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA

2001 Reading the World. Thacker Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA

2000 Bible Stories. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Mills College, Oakland, CA

1999 We Are Family: Celebrating Diversity, Embracing Similarities. Koret Gallery, Albert Schultz Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto CA

1997 Brave Little Girls. Jewett Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

1997 Sisters in Spirit. UC Theater Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1996 Artists and Friends. UC Theater Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1995 Anne Frank Exhibit, Town Center, Corte Madera, CA

1995 Immigration and Exile. UC Theater Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1994 Three Women. UC Theater Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1994 Under One Sky. Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

1994 Urban Visions - Mural Painters. SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994 House of Cards Channukah Show. Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

1993 Utopias in the Teen Age. Installation with MacAteer High and A.W.O.L. (Artists and Writers Out Loud), Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA

1993 Collateral Damage/Human Response. Installation with A.W.O.L., UBIK Gallery San Francisco, CA

1992 Three Artist/Illustrators. Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA

1991 Corazon Del Barrio. Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

1990 Project Mission. Artists Televison Access, San Francisco, CA

1988 Auto Erartica. La Raza Graphics, San Francisco, CA

1986 Graduation Exhibit. Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983 Arts and Crafts. Chamisa Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1983 Intersection for the Arts. San Francisco, CA

1982 Nova Artist Exhibition. Hall of Flowers, San Francisco, CA

1981 Taos Past and Present. The Old Armory, Taos, NM

1981 Veg Goes West. Artists’ Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1981 Group Exhibition. Gallery West, Taos, NM

1980 Salome was a Hedonist. Beesnip Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1976 A Different Kettle of Fish. The Space, Melbourne, Australia


Community Leadership
Lifelong commitment to serving various populations within my community including:

2005 Officer and Executive member for the Education Graduate Organization (EGO).

2005 District Representative for the College of Education representing the departments of Teaching and Learning, Educational Counseling and Psychology, and Educational Administration, for the Graduate Professional Students Association (GPSA).

2005 Executive member (GPSA).

2005 Volunteer member for WSU library committees.

2005 Mentoring two teenage girls in Pullman for their senior projects from alternative and at-risk high school programs.

1995-2005 Mentoring young multicultural artists in becoming successful children’s book artists.

2003–2005 Creating arts and place-based projects with my students to benefit our local community while inspiring democratic participation.

2003–2005 Starting and leading the local chapter of a successful twelve-step program for people with eating disorders in Southeast Washington.

2003–2005 Teaching faculty members and graduate students computer software programs.

2000–2003 Teaching diverse teenagers computer arts skills at the Excelsior Unit San Francisco Boys and Girls Club.

1983–1986 Volunteering in a battered women’s shelter taking care of children. Sydney, Australia.

Web Design
Designed and constructed 17 websites for educational and non-profit use as well as for individual children’s book illustrators. These include:

Life on the Palouse http://www.educ.wsu.edu/place Place-based education at the College of Education, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. Site is intended to be a theoretical and practical resource for educators and members of the Palouse community. It is still in its infancy but has some lovely content.

Mariuccia Iaconi Book Imports http://www.iaconibooks.com

A resource for teachers, librarians, authors and illustrators, parents and children. Site includes links to teaching activities and articles beneficial to readership.

Elisa Kleven http://www.elisakleven.com Award winning children's book author and illustrator.

Ashley Wolff http://www.ashleywolff.com Award winning children's
book author and illustrator

Mira Reisberg http://www.mirareisberg.com Children's book author and illustrator.

West Portal Care Inc. http://www.wpcinc.org. Award winning group of after school childcare programs.

Stacey Schuett http://www.staceyschuett.com Children's book author and illustrator.Professional

Memberships
2004–2005 American Educational Research Association AERA.
AERA SIGS
- Curriculum Studies
- Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education
- Arts-Based Educational Research
- Ecological and Environmental Education

2004-2005 American Educational Studies Association AESA

2004-2005 National Arts Education Association NAEA

2004 Caucus On Social Theory In Art Education CSTAE

1995-2004 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators SCBWI