ProArts Faculty Development Videos

9/26/2024 | Creative Arts and Creative Career Planning: Exploring the Potential of Non-Traditional Career Pathways

This faculty development panel focused on supporting students in pursuing diverse/non-traditional career pathways.

Welcome remarks: Mary Grant (President, Massachusetts College of Art and Design)

Moderator: Beth Lundell Garver (Dean and Faculty of Practice & Director of Applied Learning, Boston Architectural College)

Panelists: Andy Chau (Assistant Dean of Career Engagement, Berklee), Shaun Clarke (Associate Professor and Chair of the Visual & Media Arts Department, Emerson College), Kendall Reiss (Professor of the Practice and Chair of 3-D and Performance, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University), Andrew Schartmann (Professor of Music, New England Conservatory), Rebekah Wright (Internship Manager, Career Development, Massachusetts College of Art and Design).

3/3/2023 | Contextualizing the Impacts of COVID-19 Within Higher Education

This panel discussion explored how COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted students along the lines of race, the ways in which faculty members' teaching methodologies have permanently shifted, and how the pandemic has impacted the way in which students and faculty approach the arts as a career path. | Moderator: Monique Van Willingh, Director of Cultural Equity and Belonging at New England Conservatory | Panelists: Aja Burrell Wood, Managing Director for Berklee College’s Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice; Beth Lundell Garver, Dean and Faculty of Practice; Director of Applied Learning at Boston Architectural College; Krystal Livingston, Regional Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at Emerson College; Tyrone Sutton, Assistant Head of School at Boston Arts Academy.

2/17/2023 | Teaching While Black: How Cultural Legacies, Creative and Communication Arts Education, and Institutional Racism Have and Are Impacting the Experiences of Black Professors

In this session, Black professors at multiple intersections of identity discuss how their pedagogy, creative works, and scholarship function as embodiments of the histories, cultures and communities racism and colonialism endeavored to silence, demean and destroy. They also share how Arts and Communications programs in Predominantly White Institutions can intentionally and ethically make structural and pedagogical decisions that not only make space for but advance anti-racism. | Moderator: James Mason, Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at MassArt | Panelists: Judith Anderson, Professor of Industrial Design at MassArt; Dr. Brent Smith, Interim Dean and Professor of Marketing at Emerson College’s School of Communication; Ron Savage, Executive Director of Berklee College of Music.

February-April 2022 | Expanding the Canon

2/11/2022, 12:30-2:00 PM EST | Domonic A. Rollins, Ph.D., spoke on challenging the belief of The Canon vs. a canon, normalizing social construction of knowledge, and teaching inclusively within the space of one's own discipline.

2/25/2022, 12:30-2:00 PM EST | A panel of ProArts faculty shared their views and experiences on the subject of The Canon, and discussed how to translate the expansion of The Canon across various identities. Panel is composed of Dorothy Clark (Boston Architectural College), Rebecca Marchand (Berklee College of Music), Claudia Mattos (School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University), and Monique Van Willingh (New England Conservatory). This panel will be moderated by Marika Preziuso (Massachusetts College of Art and Design).

4/8/2022, 12:30-2:00 PM EST | Deion Hawkins (Emerson College) hosted a workshop with a focus on conducting relevant conversations in the classroom, humanizing faculty, and shaping culture to support this endeavor.