Curriculum Vitae

Education

2006  PhD in Education. Cognate: Cultural Studies and Art Education. Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Dissertation title – “An A/r/tographic Study of Multicultural Children’s Book Artists: Developing a Place-Based Pedagogy of Pleasure.”

2000 MFA in Studio Art (Painting and Digital Arts). Mills College, Oakland, CA.

1985 BFA in Graphic Design. Academy of Art College, San Francisco CA.

Informal education encompasses a wide range of multimedia courses, further training in art, as well as courses in children’s literature.

Research Interests

Visual culture, place-based and environmental art education, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, culturally responsive teaching, critical multicultural arts education, social reconstructionist art education, a/r/tography and other arts-based and qualitative educational research, pleasure as a pedagogical approach, art and technology, contemporary multicultural and environmental artists, and multicultural children ’s literature.

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Art Education
Courses Taught

2006 – 2007 Art for Elementary Educators – School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
This course for elementary majors from the College of Education teaches students about the power and importance of art and how to teach math, science, art, literacy, and social studies through art. The conceptual foundation draws upon multi/intercultural and place-based aspects of visual culture art education through fine art, children’s picture books, and other visual culture sources while teaching a wide range of art skills and concepts relevant for future elementary classroom teachers.

2006 – 2007  Student Clinical Supervision – School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Supervise and mentor art education student teachers working in elementary through high school levels throughout Northern Illinois. Duties include visiting students onsite, reading and commenting on weekly reflections, advising students on dealing with problems, meeting with cooperating teachers, helping students develop curriculum, watching additional student videos of their teaching, meeting with students in seminars, assessing student progress, and writing letters of recommendation.

2006 Introduction to Art Education – School of Art, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, Illinois.
Introduces students to the field of art education focusing on the use of visual culture to teach fine art, contemporary art including multicultural and environmental art, design art, and popular art. Provides a basic overview of art education history and philosophy, behavior management techniques, lesson planning, art assessment, and art education practice in school clinicals.

2003 – 2006 Integrated Fine Arts– College of Education, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
This course for elementary majors from the College of Education taught students about the power and importance of art and how to teach math, science, art, literacy, and social studies using art. (See Art for Elementary Educators for further details).

2003 – 2004  Survey of Children’s Literature– College of Education,
Washington State University, Pullman.
Taught future elementary teachers how to assess and use children’s picture books and young adult books across the curriculum.

2004  Integrating Technology into the Curriculum for English Language
Learners.Taught software workshop to Masters and Undergraduate studentsin ESL endorsement program. Washington State University, Pullman.

Course Development

In addition to creating syllabi for all the above courses, I am currently developing two new syllabi for classes that I will be teaching. One is an Art Education seminar course for Spring 2008 titled “Art, Environment, and Culture” structured through four themes: Art and Empire; Indigenous Approaches to Art and Environment; Environment and Culture in Film and Advertising; and Art, Culture, and Environment in the Great Outdoors. The other is for a summer course for the College of Education, “Nature, Arts, and Crafts in Outdoor Education,” which focuses on creating art and craft working with natural materials in primarily outdoor settings.

Recent Positions

2007 Art and literacy consultant Piedmont California Schools. Gave presentations on children’s book illustration at three schools. Conducted professional in-service for school district teachers.      

2004 Art and literacy consultant for the San Bernadino County Office of Education. Worked 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. Taught college age students children’s book illustration skills. 15 of my former students have now been published.

1996 – 2003 Illustrating and Publishing Children’s Picture Books Instructor – San Francisco City College Extension, San Francisco, CA
See above for description.

1988 – 2003  K-12 Artist in the Schools – Taught in over 30 K-12 schools through various arts and educational organizations.

1999 – 2000 Teaching assistant in drawing. Art Department, 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 “Libros Y Familias Program”: working with migrant farm worker communities, and elementary school teachers conducting professional in-services. Independence, OR

1994 – 1995  K-6 art teacher, Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary School, Santa Cruz, CA.

Articles About My Teaching
http://www.niu.edu/news/features/reisberg.shtml

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.

Reisberg, M. (in press). From Baby Rattlesnake with love: Using multicultural picture
books to teach place-based and visual culture art education. Journal of Aesthetic Education (157).

2007 Articles Accepted

Reisberg, M. “Social/Ecological Caring with Multicultural Picture Books: Placing Pleasure in Art
Education.” Accepted for Studies in Art Education. Fall 2008.

Reisberg, M. “Touching the ephemeral.” ChildArt Journal. Jan/Feb 2008.

2007 Articles Submitted

Reisberg, M. (submitted tothe Journal of Visual Culture and Gender). “Maya Gonzalez: Portrait of
the Artist as a Radical Children’s Book Illustrator.” Article and fifteen minute digital movie.

Reisberg, M. (submitted to Art Education journal). “Finding Value(s): Mixing Children’s Picture
Books, A Dollar Bill, and Fine Art for a Currency of Caring.”

Reisberg, M., & Han, S. (submitted to Social Theory in Art Education Journal). “The Darker
            Side of Edutainment: The Rainforest Cafe as An/"Other” Curriculum.”

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

2006 Summer Research and Artistry Grant, Northern Illinois University

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 9 video productions.

2007  Maya Gonzalez: Portrait of the Artist as a Radical Children’s Book Illustrator. Created a 15 minute qualitative research portrait of multi-award winning children’s book artist Maya Gonzalez focusing on ecofeminism and gender.

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.

2006 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 – National and International

2007 The power of place in art education: Connecting visual culture and place-based art education for culturally responsive teaching. American Education Research Association(AERA) Chicago.

2007  An a/r/tographic study of multicultural picture book artists: Developing a place-based pedagogy of pleasure. National Art Education Association. New York.

2007 Multimedia for art learning: Preservice art teacher’s digital teaching aids. Presented with NIU graduate students at Illinois Art Education Association (IAEA) Chicago.

2006 Vision and voice: Exploring the images and identities of five multicultural children's book artists. AERA, San Francisco, CA.

2005 Conservative students meet progressive teaching in an Integrated Fine Arts course. Conference on Globalization and Diversity, Washington State University.

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.

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, 2001, 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. These include:

2007  Digital animation film The Ten Plagues. Faculty Exhibition,Altgelt Museum,Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

2006 Chicano Book Exhibition. DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA

2006 It’s a Small World After All (Visual Culture in the Age of Globalization. Faculty Exhibition,Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

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:

2003–2007 Creating arts and place-based projects with my students to benefit our local community while inspiring democratic participation.

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

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 teenagers computer arts skills at a low-income 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:

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

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

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

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

West Portal Care Inc. http://www.wpcinc.org. Award winning group of after school childcare programs (now defunct website)

Professional Affiliations

2006-present Illinois Art Education Association (member) 
                                                          
2004-present National Art Education Association (member) 
                                                       
2004-present American Educational Research Association                                                                           
Member, SIG: Arts-Based Educational Research
Member Division B: Curriculum Studies
Member, SIG: Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education
Member, SIG: Arts and Learning
Member, SIG:  Ecological and Environmental Education

Professional Service

Received $1500 grant to fund student assistant to assist in redesiging Arts Based Educational Research SIG website http://www.aber-sig.org

Reviewer for Arts Based Educational Research SIG submissions for AERA conference

Reviewer for Urban Education journal