Collins, Lisa Gail

This paper analyzes a social justice arts program that I developed and taught to third, fourth, and fifth grade students at one school in the Poughkeepsie, NY area. I begin this project by considering my own experiences in art class...

Nineteenth-century arts extended beyond the male-dominated public sphere of galleries and critics, entering the “feminine” private sector through textiles. Women would often embroider, crochet and more to create ornamentation for their homes, and to entertain themselves thereby creating a demand...

Nineteenth-century arts extended beyond the male-dominated public sphere of galleries and critics, entering the “feminine” private sector through textiles. Women would often embroider, crochet and more to create ornamentation for their homes, and to entertain themselves thereby creating a demand...

This project is an attempt to play with "theses" as a form of research, integrating academic essay, creative writing, image collecting, making and intervening, and materiality. I examine the intersecting racial, social, and ecological implications of the term gente de...