CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2013 - Present PhD Art Education at Concordia University
Thesis in progress: Collaborative a/r/tography: Mapping transatlantic mariner life in the 1920-1960’s
Supervisor: Dr Anita Sinner
2012 MA Art Education at Concordia University
Thesis: Constructing a safe space together: Community art education for women in a reintegration program http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975150/
Supervisor: Dr Linda Szabad-Smyth
2010 BFA Art Education at Concordia University Graduated with distinction.
1997 DEP in Ceramics at Centre Céramique Bonsecours Montreal, Quebec
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
2016 - 2019 Collaborator on SSHRC IDG of Dr Ching-chiu Lin (P.I) The Transversality Hub: Towards a new mode of learning for community arts practice.
2016 Conference and Exposition Award - Concordia University.
2016 Conference and Exposition Award - Concordia University.
2015 Graduate Studies Merit Scholarship - Concordia University
2015 Concordia Fine Arts Travel Award - Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
2014 Conference and Exposition Award - Concordia University.
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Doctoral Fellowship. Duration of funding – 3 years.
2014 Concordia Fine Arts Travel Award - Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
2013 Conference and Exposition Award - Concordia University.
2012 Conference and Exposition Award - Concordia University.
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Fall 2016 Graduate Instructor
ARTE 432/2 – Community Art Education – Theory and Practice
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Spring 2015 Graduate Instructor
ARTE 330/4 – Introduction to Community Art Education
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Fall 2015 Graduate Instructor
ARTE 432/2 - Community Art Education – Theory and Practice
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Fall 2014 Graduate Instructor
ARTE 432/2 - Community Art Education – Theory and Practice
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Fall 2013 Graduate Instructor
ARTE 320/2 – Multidisciplinary Approaches to Art and Teaching
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2014-2015 ARTreach programme director
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Quebec
2011-2014 Youth Department Programme Director and Outreach Coordinator
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Quebec
2015 – Present Ceramics Instructor
Atelier L’Aluminé, Montreal, Quebec
2003 - 2016 Arts Instructor
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal, Quebec
Multi-disciplinary teacher, specialising in ceramics, sculpture, working with adults, youth and children with special needs.
2001-2011 Ceramics Instructor and Studio Associate
Atelier - Boutique Gaïa, Montreal Quebec
Professional Training
2014 Atlas.ti
Data analysis software
Intensive instructional course for MAC
2013 Adobe InDesign
Eliquo – Adobe training specialists Intensive instructional course for MAC
Publications
Sinner, A., Wicks, J. & Zantingh, P. (2016). You have to judge on the spot: Just-in-time community art education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Wicks, J. & LeBlanc, V. (2015). Come si c’était hier… As if it were yesterday….Montreal, Quebec: McClure Gallery Press.
Sinner, A., Wicks, J., & Rak, S. (2015). Minding the gap: Teaching portfolios and professionalization in community art education. Visual Arts Research 41(1).
Wicks, J. (2014). Guest editorial: Reflections on visual revival! Canadian Review of Art Education: Research & Issues, 41(2), p. 144-149.
Wicks, J. (2014). Piecing it together: A conversation in the development of artist/teacher/researcher identity. Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 3(2), p. 147-148.
Wicks, J. (2014). Finding solace to create: The significance of developing safe space in a community art classroom. In Marín Viadel, R., Roldán, J., Molinet Medina, X. (Eds). Fundamentos, criterios y contextos en investigación basada en artes y en investigación artística (Volume 1, p. 303-315). Granada: Universidad de Granada.
Wicks, J. (2013) Room to breathe: Designing a community art classroom. Canadian Art Teacher, 12(1), p. 16-19.
Wicks, J. (2013). Responding to: Towards 2020: Future Directions in Art Education.
Canadian Review of Art Education: Research & Issues, 40(1), p. 57.
Publications – in press
Wicks, J. (February 2017). An a/r/tographical exploration of collaborative art teaching and research/creation in the Taiga forest. Creative Approaches to Research Journal.
Sinner, A., & Wicks, J. (2017). Greening our art classrooms: Ecologically-aware health and safety. In K. Grauer, R. Irwin & M. Emme (Eds)., StARTing with ... Fourth Edition. Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Society for Education through Art.
Conference Presentations
Wicks, J. (2017). Collaborative art teaching in the Taiga forest. 2017 NAEA National Convention, March 2- 4th, New York, NY.
Wicks, J., White, B., Yi, S., Lemieux, A., & Sinner, A. (2017). Epiphanies of change through artful becoming(s) in teacher education. 2017 NAEA National
Convention, March 2- 4th, New York, NY.
Zimmer, T., Wicks, J., St-Georges, D., Yi, S., Saad, R., & Sinner, A. (2017). Artful encounters: Life writing as making curriculum with, in and through stories of trans-research. 8th Biennial Provoking Curriculum Studies Conference: Curriculum Encounters: Plurality, Spaces, Intensities and Charges. Mcgill University.
Sinner, A., Wicks, J., & St. Georges (2016). An a/r/tographic pulse: opening conversations to resistance, resilience and risk as scholarly provocations. 2016
Artful Inquiry Symposium: Act(s) of Creation; Representational Forms of Inquiry. Mcgill University.
Wicks, J. (2016). On récolte ce que l’on s’aime: An exploration of collaborative art teaching in the Taiga forest. Intersections: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Irwin, R., Sinner, A., & Wicks, J. (2016). The International Journal of Education through Art: An information session. Intersections: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Smith, B., Sinner, A., Wicks, J., & Nyland, K. (2016). Contemporary visual journals & artist-teacher portfolios: Towards engaged sites of inquiry & ongoing critical- creative reflection. Intersections: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Sinner, A., Irwin, R., Wicks, J., Shields, A., & St. Georges, D. (2016). Canadian Perspectives on arts based research in the art education doctoral experience. Intersections: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Lemieux, A., White, B., Sinner, A., Wicks, J., Walker, C., Yi, S., & Essmat, R. (2016). “The ‘I’ of today is not the ‘I’ of yesterday”: Ontological understandings of pre- service teacher development through arts-integrated research. Intersections: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Wicks, J. (2016). Building community: A transnational investigation of collaboration through a/r/tographic praxis. National Art Education Association, Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers Graduate Research Session, Invited Lecture, March 17-19, Chicago, Illinois.
Wicks, J. (2016). An a/r/tographical exploration of collaborative art teaching and research/creation in the Taiga forest. 4 EPRAE encounter on practices of research in arts education, January 13-15, Oporto, Portugal.
Wicks, J., & Perez-Martin, F. (2015). Bringing arts based research to life through international collaboration: From Spain to Canada. 3rd Conference on Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research, January 28-30, 2015, Oporto, Portugal.
Wicks, J., & Sinner, A. (2014). Mapping the classroom as art learning. Visual Revival: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Sinner, A., Szabad-Smyth, L., Wicks, J., & Walker, C. (2014). Communities of practice: Community art education in action. Visual Revival: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Blatherwick, M., Emme, M., Sinner, A. & Wicks, J., (2014). Publishing with CSEA/SCEA: An information Session. Visual Revival: Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference.
Wicks, J. (2014). Motivation and community art education: A Reflection on Teaching Practice. 2014 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, May 24 -29, 2014.
Vaughan, K., Szabad-Smyth, L., Wicks, J., & Hyde, T. (2014). Engaging visual art for equity: Teaching and learning community. 2nd Annual Institute for Imagination, Inquiry and Innovation Conference, College of New Rochelle, New York, NY, Group presentation, March 29, 2014.
Wicks, J. (2014). Finding solace to create: The significance of developing safe space in a community art classroom. 2nd Conference on Arts Based Research and Artistic Research, January 27-30, 2014, Granada, Spain.
Wicks, J. (2013). Investigating community art education as a third space in teacher education. Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference, Montréal, Quebec.
Wicks, J. (2013). Designing your classroom to create safe space. Canadian Society for Education Through Art, Annual Conference, Graduate Symposium, Montréal, Quebec.
Wicks, J. (2013). Constructing safe space, together. University of Rhode Island Graduate Conference, April 12, 2013, Kingston, Rhode Island
Wicks, J. (2013). A safe space in the art classroom. Concordia Art Education Graduate Symposium, March 1, 2013, Montréal, Quebec.
Wicks, J. (2012). Developing an atmosphere conducive to creativity. Symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Banff, Alberta.
Research and Teaching Assistantships
2015 – Present Research Assistant - SSHRC PDG (P.I. Dr. Anita Sinner) – The Pedagogical Turn to Art as Research: A Comparative International Study of Art Education
2014 – 2015 Research Assistant - SSHRC IDG (P.I. Dr. Boyd White, Dr. Anita Sinner, Dr. Pauline Sameshima) – Material Culture and Teacher Identity Development
2013 – 2015 Research Assistant - Editorial Team (Design and Layout) - Canadian Review of Art Education Journal (Editor Dr. Anita Sinner)
2013 – 2014 Research Assistant - SEED funded Concordia University Research Project - Spatial Design in Community Art Classrooms. (P.I. Dr. Anita Sinner)
2012 – 2013 Research Assistant – Project Coordinator SSHRC IDG (P.I. Anita Sinner, Linda Szabad-Smyth & Kathleen Vaughan) Community Art Education: An Emergent Model of Innovative Teaching and Research in Canada
2012 Research Assistant - SSHRC IDG - (P.I. Dr. Anita Sinner) Portrayals of Teachers' Lives: Investigating Teacher Education Through Popular Culture and Digital Media as Arts Education
2012 Research Assistant – Project Coordinator
SSHRC Aid to Workshop Grant (P.I. Anita Sinner) Creating Together: An Interdisciplinary Workshop of Participatory Community Based and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship
2011 – 2013 Head Teaching Assistant - Concordia University Community Art Education Practicum Coordinator
2010 – 2011 Teaching Assistant - Concordia University Community Art Education Program
Service
2017 – 2020 International Journal of Education through Art - Editorial Assistant - social media
2016 – Present Artist Teacher Researcher Society
SIG of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Graduate Representative
2016 The International Institute of Knowledge Management 3rd International Conference on Arts and Humanities Scientific Committee Member
2016 Canadian Society for Education Through Art
Emergent art education: Next directions in Canadian Research, Editors - A. Shields & Dr. M. Emme
Reviewer
2015 Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Artist Teacher Researcher Society Pre-Conference Reviewer
2014 Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Annual Conference Reviewer
Invited Lectures and Workshops
2016 Pedagogy of Parallax
Arts Research Lecture and Workshop Universidade de Porto, Faculdade de Belas Artes
As assistant to Drs. Boyd White, Anita Sinner and Pauline Sameshima
2014 Conflict Resolution Through Art Workshop
University of Waterloo, Department of Drama and Speech Communication
In collaboration with Fernando Perez Martin (PhD candidate, University of Granada, Spain)
2014 Jennifer Wicks - Artist/Teacher/Researcher
Public Lecture
McClure Gallery, Montreal Quebec
2014 Professionalisation in Community Art Education Guest Lecture ARTE 434 – Professor Dr. Anita Sinner Concordia University
2013 Exploring Fear through Ceramic Art - Guest Lecture
Applied Ethics through Humanities - Professor Dr. Sorouja Moll Dawson College
2013 Experiencing the Master’s Thesis
Guest Lecture ARTE 670 – Professor Dr. Anita Sinner Concordia University
2012 Community Art Education Experiences in the Field
Guest Lecture ARTE 434 – Professor Dr. Kathleen Vaughan Concordia University
2010 Community Art Education Experiences in the Field Guest Lecture ARTE 432 – Professor Janette Haggar Concordia University
2010 DIY Music and Publishing
Guest Lecture
Musical Genres and Communities – Professor Hugh Cawker Marianopolis College
2009 Community Art Education Experiences in the Field Guest Lecture ARTE 432 – Professor Janette Haggar Concordia University
2009 DIY music and publishing
Guest Lecture
Musical Genres and Communities – Professor Hugh Cawker Marianopolis College
Artistic Works & Residencies
2015 Residence des Possibles, Parc des GrandsJardins, Charlevoix Quebec – Juried selection
2010 60x60 International mix -Electroacoustic work selected for International sound compilation. Showcased internationally – Juried Selection
2010 60x60 Canadian mix - Electroacoustic work selected for Canadian sound compilation. Showcased internationally. – Juried Selection
2010 Prevenge – It Happens All the Time. Full-length LP. Design and artwork.
2009 Prevenge/Horses split 7”. Independent music release. Design and artwork.
Select Exhibitions
2015 Postdata Esperanza Requerda, Sala de Exposiciones Cuartel de Artillería, Murcia, Spain.
2013 The Square Affaire. McClure Gallery, Westmount Quebec.
2012 The Square Affaire. McClure Gallery, Westmount Quebec.
2011 Art Hotel. Hotel Espresso. Montreal, Quebec
2010 NDG Arts Walk. Montreal, Quebec
2010 Vitrine Plein d’Feu. Atelier-Boutique Gaia. Montreal Quebec.
2010 Research and Destroy. Gallerie Ethecae. Montreal, Quebec.
Languages
English (First language)
French (Fluent)
Spanish (Basic)
Sign Language (Basic)