Spring semester 2022, Professor Emeritus Richard Siegesmund, Ph.D. will teach on-line AED 470/570: Exploring Brandywine Archives for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. A blended undergraduate/graduate level art education course with a theme of equity, diversity, and inclusion, students will explore the collection of Brandywine Workshop and Archives as presented on Artura.org to develop curricular ideas for K-12 and higher ed curricula. For this course, BWA has generously provided students with copies of Volume 1 & 2 of the Artura Teacher’s Guide. Students in the course will also be able to access the nearby BWA Satellite Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Harvard University Art Museums. Visiting guest lecturers will include Notre Dame University Assistant Professor of Art History Tatiana Reinoza who will talk about her recent exhibition at the BWA’s Printed Image Gallery, All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art. Graduate students in the course will have the opportunity to participate in Drexel University Professor Jen Katz-Buonincontro’s culturally-responsive curriculum research project CReST that draws on art and artist interviews from Artura.org.
Richard Siegesmund, Ph.D.
A friend of, and an advocate for, Brandywine Workshop and Archives since 1982, Richard Siegesmund is Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, School of Art and Design. A former director of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, he is the recipient of two Fulbright awards and fellowships from the Getty Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts.