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Address: Rochester, NY

E-mail: s-nolte@hotmail.com

Education
Ph. D., Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014
M.A.E. Art Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010
B.A Art Education, Dance, Mercyhurst University, 2005
Professional Experience
2014-            Nazareth College

                             Assistant Professor & Program Director, Art Education Program, Department of Art

 

2005-2010    Art Educator

                             John Hanson Middle School, Waldorf, MD

                             Kids and Teens College (hosted by the Community College of Southern Maryland), La Plata, MD

                             St. Catherine's Creative Arts Program (CAT's CAP)

 

1997-2010    Dance Educator

                             Magical Movement School of Dance, Richmond, VA

                             Alaska Dance Theatre, Anchorage, AK

                             Private Instructor, Erie, PA

                             Carnegie Performing Arts Center, Carnegie, PA

Awards and Honors
 

2015               Suzanne D. & Harlan A Hoffa Dissertation Award, Pennsylvania State            

                       University

 

2010-2011      Graduate Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 1 year

 

2010               Thesis Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1 semester

 

2009               Runner Up Best Presentation, 12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium,

                       Virginia Commonwealth University

 

2005               Winner, Student Art Show Award, Mercyhurst University

 

2004               Winner, Student Juried Art Show Award, Mercyhurst University

 

2003               Winner, Student Art Show, Mercyhurst University

 

2002               Winner, Student Art Show Award, Mercyhurst University

 

1999-2003      Dance Scholarship, Mercyhurst University

 

1999-2003      Egan Academic Scholarship



Scholarly Activities
 
Refereed Journals

 

Accepted        Martinez, U. & Nolte, S. T. Story bound, map around:  Stories, life, and learning.

                       Art Education.

 
Book Chapters and Parts of Books
2013              Nolte, S. T. Interviews. In M. Buffington & S. Wilson McKay (Eds.) Practice theory:
                      Seeing the power of teacher researchers (p. 56). 

 

Other Publications

 

2009              Buffington, M.L., Nolte, S. T., Perez, G. (Winter) Curriculum and research.  Virginia

                      Art Education Association Newsletter.

 

Editorial Responsibilities

 

 

 

2014-            Reviewer, International Journal of Education and the Arts

 
Conference Papers and Presentations

 

2015              Nolte-Yupari, S. T. Dynamic Taskscapes and heterotopias:  Beginning art teachers' 

                      interaction with art room place.  As part of the panel: Movement as Ontological 

                      Inquiry:  Towards a New Methodology and method of Meaning Making  

                      at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL. May 20-23

 

2015              Nolte-Yupari, S. T. Ethnography in the classroom:  Intertwining artist-teacher-

                      researcher practices in pre-service art education.  As part of the panel: 

                      Researching In, Through, and about Pre-Service Teacher Education for Qualitative 

                      Inquiry at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL,

                      May 20-23

 

2015              Nolte-Yupari, S. T. PostSecret: Teacher Fears:  Collage, Storytelling, and

                      Multivocality.  As part of the panel:  Collage as Critical Inquiry:  Teacher Identity

                      School Culture, and the Spaces In Between at International Congress of 

                      Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 20-23

 

2015              Nolte-Yupari, S. T. & Powell, K. Moving lines:  Mapping as an Embodied Research 

                      Method.  Paper presented at National Art Education Association, New Orleans, LA,

                      March 26-28

 

2015              Nolte-Yupari, S. T. Teacher as wayfaring:  Ethnographic maps of place and art 

                      teacher induction.  Paper presented at National Art Education Association, New 

                      Orleans, LA.  March 26-28

 

2014              Nolte, S.T. Teaching as wayfaring:  Ethnographic maps of place and art teacher

                      Paper presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-

                      Champaign, IL, May 22-24

 

2014              Nolte, S. T. The teacher as a wayfaring learner:  Ethnographic maps of place and

                      art teacher induction.  Paper presented at Marilyn Zurmuehlen Work Papers 

                      Session at National Art Education Association, San Diego, CA, March 29-31

 

2014              Nolte, S. T. Pinterest as pedagogy. Paper present at National Art Education

                      Association, San Diego, CA, March 29-31

 

2013              Nolte, S. T. The teacher as wayfaring learner. Paper presented at Graduate

                      Research in Art Education, State College, PA, October 25-27

 

2013              Nolte, S.T. Autoethnography and mapping:  Journaling the self as a means for

                      examining teacher practices.  As part of the panel:  Sensuous cartography:

                      Methodological possibilities of maps and mapping for qualitative inquiry at

                      International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 15-18

 

2013              Martinez, U. & Nolte, S. T. Story bound, map around.  Paper presented at National

                      Art Education Association, Fort Worth, TX, March 7-10

 

2012              Nolte, S. T. Curriculum theory for begining teachers:  An autoethnographic

                      reflection. Paper presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,

                      Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 16-19

 

2011              Nolte, S. T. Giving a better demonstration in your art room.  Paper presented at

                      National Art Education Association, Seattle, WA, March 17-20

 

2010              Nolte, S. T. Comics and hindu art. Paper presented at Pennsylvania Art Education

                      Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 29-31

 

2010              Nolte, S. T. A curriculum based on aesthetics.  Paper presented at National Art

                      Education Association, Baltimore, MD, April 14-18

 

2010              Nolte, S. T. Comics and hindu art.  Poster presented at National Art Education

                      Association, Baltimore, MD, April 14-18

 

2009              Nolte, S. T. Comics and hindu art.  Paper presented at Virginia Art Education

                      Conference, Richmond, VA, November 19-21

 

Chaired and Invited Conference Papers and Presentations

 

2014              Chair, organizer, and discussant of a panel entitle Visual methodologies and

                      qualitative inquiry:  Envisioning alternatives to inherited discourses in teacher

                      education and experience, at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,

                      Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 22-24

 

Guest Lectures

 

2015             Transmediation and Multimodality in Artmaking:  Sensory Ethnographic Practices

                      in the Arts and Literacy Classroom, lecture given for the University of Michigan

                      Museum of Art during Professional Development Day:  Creative Literacies

                      March 14

 

2015              Bakhtin and Pop Culture, lecture given for the course ECE 597A/CI 598B Bakhtin

                      and Education, hosted by Dr. Joseph Valente, Assistant Professor of Education 

                      (ECE), The Pennsylvania State University, February, 11, 7-9PM.

 

2013              Classroom Management in the Art Room:  Physical Space and General Routines,

                      lecture given for course Elementary Methods for the Art Room, Mercyhurst

                      University. November 11

 

2012              Classroom Management in the Art Room:  Proactive Production of Space and

                      Movement, lecture given for course Curriculum in Art Education, Pennsylvania

                      State University, November 5

 

2012              Classroom Management in the Art Room:  Proactive Production of Space and

                      Movement, lecture given for course Elementary Methods in the Art Room,

                      Merchurst University, October 25

 

2011              Classroom Management in the Room:  Proactive Production of Space and

                      Movement, lecture given for course Curriculum in Art Education, Pennsylvania

                      State University, October 25

 

2010              Comics and Hindu Art, lecture given for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 2010

 

Teaching Experience
 

2010 - present

2010 - present

Courses Taught

 

                                            Graduate Courses    

2015, 2016                          Captsone: Artist-T(res)ea(r)cher Identities                                   2016                                    Arts Across the Curriculum

2016                                    Qualitative Research Methods

 

                                            Graduate/Undergraduate Cross-Listed Courses

2015                                    Saturday Art School

2015                                    Issues in Art Education

2015                                    Introduction to Curriculum Theory and Lesson Planning

2015                                    Psychological Learning in the Arts

2015                                    Student Teaching Supervision

2015                                    Professional Development in Art Education

 

Undergraduate Courses

2011, 2012, 2013                Visual Arts in the Elementary Classroom

2012, 2013                          Visual Images on the Web

2010                                    Art Education Secondary Methods

 

                                            K-12 Art

2005-2008                           General Art, Middle School

2005-2008                           Drawing for Kids/Drawing for Teens

2005-2008                           Cartooning for Kids/Cartooning for Teens

 

                                            K-12 Dance

2008-2010                           Creative Movement

2008-2010                           Beginning Ballet

2008-2010                           Beginning Tap

2008-2010                           Intermediate and Advanced Intermediate Ballet

1999, 2003, 2008-2010       Pre-Pointe, Beginning Pointe

 

Service
 

Service to the Profession

 

2015-               President Elect, Seminar for Research in Art Education, National Art

                        Education Association

 

Service to the Community

 

2015                Professional Development Workshop: Pinterest as Pedagogy, hosted by

                        NYSATA Region 2 President Valerie Savage February 4

 

Service to the University

 

2015               Literary Artist Workshop for Teen Book Festival:  Creating Non-Linear Books,

                       hosted by Dr. Laura C. Jones-Soehner, May 17

 

2015              Judge: Creative Activity and Research Showcase (CARS), April 10

 

2015              Organized and Hosted Guest Artist:  Alanna Wilcox--Fiber Arts:  Yarn Dyeing

                      with Kool Aid and Food Coloring, April 25

 

2014-             Teacher Education Assessment Committee, Nazareth College

 

2014-             Field Placement Advisory Committee, Nazareth Collge

 

2014              Working Group, Core Milestone Experience, Nazareth College

Teaching License
 

Volunteer Work
 

2006, Committee Chair, Art Department Budget for new Davis Middle School



Teaching Certificate Pennsylvania, Art K-12; Instructional I; Number:  223 41 2406 21 05023271

Issued 06/2005 Expires 05/2015

 

Teaching Certificate Virginia, Art K-12; Collegiate Professional License:  CP-00632179;

Originally Issue: 07/01/2008 Current Expiration: 06/30/2018



Dance Education and Performance Experience
 

Merycyhurst University, Erie, PA (1999-2003)

Carnegie Performing Arts Center, Carnegie, PA (1997-1999)

Point Park College, International Summer Dance, Pittsburgh, PA (Summer 1997, 1998)

Dance Alloy, Apprenticeship AIU Program, Pittsburgh, PA (1997-1998)

Pittsburgh Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh PA (Summer, 1996)

Private Ballet Tutelage, Leann Garth, Stuttgart, Germany (1994-1996)



Performance Experience

Ensemble Dancer, Academic Celebration: Improvisation Dance Collaboration with Art Therapy, Mercyhurst University

Choreographer, Meditation on Sound, Raw Edges 2003, Mercyhurst University

Choreographer, Reunification, Dance 2002, Mercyhurst University

Choreographer, It's a Beautiful Morning, Spring Showcase 1998, Mercyhurst University

Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop, Nutcracker, Carnegie Performing Arts Center

Swanilda, Coppelia, Carnegie Performing Arts Center

Squirrel Nutkin, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, Carnegie Performing Arts Center

Lead Mazurka, Coppelia, Point Park College Summer Intensive Program

 

Related Professional Experience
 

Professional Affiliations
 

Human Subject Research Certification (CITI)

Teaching Certificate, Preparing Future Faculty Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010

Art Club Sponsor, John Hanson Middle School



National Art Education Association (NAEA)

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

New York State Art Teacher's Association (NYSATA)

Pennsylvania Art Education Association (PAEA)

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Virginia Art Education Association (VAEA)

Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society



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