Dr. Rikki Asher
Assistant Professor, Art Education
Director, Art Education
Powdermaker Hall, 150 L
Voice: 718.997.5157
e-mail: rikki.asher@qc.cuny.edu
http://rikkiasher.cultd.net

COURSES
Methods in Teaching Secondary Art; Student Teaching of Art PreK-12; Historical, Social & Philosophical Foundations of Education; Visual Thinking Classroom Methods in Crafts; Classroom Methods in Printmaking; Seminar in Art Education; Seminar in Research in Art Parts I and II

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Collaborative learning and teaching in art; community art through mural making and the impact public art has on teachers and learners Interdisciplinary teaching with particular interest in relationships between visual art, dance, and history Teacher attitudes on censorship in art related to classroom applications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Asher, R. (In Press). Bridging the Two Cultures through Aesthetic Education:Considering Visual  Art, Science, and Imagination. The Forum on Public Policy. Oxford University Press.

Asher, R. (2005).  Video Creativity for the Record: Documenting a Community-Based Art Project in an inner city high School (pp. 151-157). In Video Art for the Classroom. (ed. By G. Szekely & I. Szekely).

Asher, R. (2002, January). Planned and unplanned: Outside the box. School Arts Magazine, p. 72.

Asher, R. (2002, March). Teaching abstract sculpture. Sculpture Magazine. 6.

Asher, R. (2001). Beauty and the Bronx. Poesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, EGS Press, 3.

Asher, R. (2000, July). The Bronx as art: Exploring the urban landscape. Art Education.

Asher, R. (2007). Bridging the Two Cultures through Aesthetic Education:Considering Visual Art, Science, and Imagination. The Forum on Public Policy. Oxford University Press.

ARTISTIC/CREATIVE WORKS SINCE 2002
2006 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY Group show
2006 When Women Pursue Justice,  mural Bedford Stuy, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Teaatro Luis Poma Galleria, San Salvador, El Salvador Paintings and Prints.
2002 Electronic Gallery, Miami Beach, Women's Caucus Slide Exhibition, Schonarie
         County Arts Council Gallery, Teacher's College, Macy Gallery Art as Antidote.
         International Silk Painters Congress, Silk Banners for Peace.

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Francis Lewis High School, Parent and Teacher Workshop Nudity in the Classroom Community.

Queens Museum of Art, Scenes of Queens: Teacher Workshop, Exploring the Environment
through Art.

NYCATA , NYSATA and NAEA in LA conference presentations, Nudity in the Art Classroom
Community.

College Art Association, Creative Relationships: Teachers and Students Constructing Women’s
Place in History, The Sojourner Truth Mural. National Art Education Association.

Presented Nudity in the Art Classroom Community. Los Angeles, CA.

Guest Professor, Graduate Seminar, Taller de Juego, at the Universidad utonoma de Nuevo.

Guest Lecturer at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, and the Instituto de Tecnologica.,
Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.  The Bronx as Art: Exploring the Urban Environment. The Friends of the Queens College Library, Procession: Documenting Migration and Immigration in Queens.  University Council for Art Education, AMicro-Mural Workshop featuring the Procession Mural.

Asher, R. & Faribank, H. & Love, A. (2006). Creating Commmunity: Aesthetic Education at
Queens College. Equity Studies Research Center, Queens College NY. Pulication Series No. 104.
2006 Panelist, The Immigration & Migration Debate: Perspectives from Queens Multiethnic Communities, CUNY at Queens College.

Presenter, The New Educator: Building and Sustaining Learning Challanges in CHanging Times.
"Putting it out there: Community Murals as Vehicles for Visual Art Learning and Social Change."
The City University of New York School of Education