BOOKS
Grauer, K. Irwin, R., & Emme, M. (Eds)(2020) Starting With (eBook edition).Victoria, BC: CSEA. LINK to CSEA e-books
Grauer, K. Irwin, R., & Emme, M. (Eds)(2018) Starting With (4th edition).Victoria, BC: CSEA. LINK to CSEA print books
Emme, M., & Kirova, A.(Eds)(2017) Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA. LINK to CSEA print books
Shields, A., & Emme, M.(Eds)(2016) Emergent Art Education: Next Directions in Canadian ResearchVictoria, BC: CSEA. LINK to CSEA e-books
Steele, B., (2014) The Drawing Path for Children. Emme, M.(Eds)(2016) Victoria, BC: CSEA/INSEA. LINK to amazon
Grauer, K. Irwin, R., & Emme, M.(Eds)(2011) Starting With (3rd edition).Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Keifer-Boyd, K., Emme, M. & Jagodzinski, J. (Eds.)(2009), InCITE, InSIGHT, InSITE: Journal of Social Theory in Art Education – the first 25 years. Reston, VA: NAEA.
Irwin R., R., Grauer, K & Emme, M. (Eds.)(2007), ReVisions:Readings in Art Education. Toronto: Canadian Society for Education through Art.
LINK TO CSEA PRINT PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
Emme, M. (2018). A Review of: Lingis, A. (2010). Wonders Seen in Forsaken Places: On photography and the photographs of Mark Coehn. Chester Perkowski. Phenomenology and Practice 12(2),(1). PDF
Emme, M. (2017).
Unbinding art educationThe Canadian Art Teacher 14(2),15(1), 38-46 PDF
Emme, M. (2015). Feeling Beyond the Frame: Photography as an Empathetic Performance Canadian Review of Art Education Research and Issues 42(1),198-207 PDF
Emme, M. (2012). Fear No Art. in the Canadian Art Teacher 11(1), 38-46. PDF
Dalton, R. & Emme, M. (2012). Diversity in the Art Classroom: Students with Autism The B.C.A.T.A.Journal 54(2), 58-68. PDF
Emme, M. (2011). Dancing in the dark: Performance as a design concept in photography. B.C.A.T.A.Journal 53(1), 42-49. PDF
Kirova, A. & Emme, M. (2009). Immigrant Children's Bodily Engagement in Accessing Their Lived Experiences of Immigration: Creating Poly-Media Descriptive Texts. Phenomenology and Practice 3(1), 59-79. PDF
Kirova, A. & Emme, M. (2008). Fotonovela as a Research Tool in Image-Based Participatory Research with Immigrant Children.International Journal for Qualitative Methodologies,7(2), 35-57. PDF
Emme, M. (2007). Art-Based research/Research-based art: On Wonder and Rigour. Canadian Review of Art Education.34(1) 1-7.PDF
Emme, M., Kirova, A., Kamau, O., & Kosanovich, S. (2006). Ensemble research: A means for immigrant children to explore peer relationships throughfotonovela. Alberta Journal of Educational Research in Educatio160n52(3) -181. PDF
Emme, M., Kirova, A, & Cambre, C.. (2006). Fotonovela and collaborative storytelling: Researching the spaces between image, text and body. Exposure. 39(2) 45-50. PDF
Kirova, A., & Emme, M. (2006). Using photography as a means of phenomenological seeing: “Doing phenomenology: with immigrant children. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Special Edition: Methods in Phenomenology. 6 1-12. PDF
Emme, M, & Kirova, A (2005, summer). Photoshop Semiotics: Research in the Age of Digital Manipulation. Visual Arts Research, 31 (1), 145-153. Urbana, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois. PDF
Emme, M. (2003).‘Critical Self-Portraits.’ in Photoed 8 Fall 2003 32-35. PDF
Emme, M. (2002).Critical Creativity: On the Convergence of Medium Education and Media Education in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 22. 92-102. PDF
Emme, M. (2001).Visuality in Teaching and Research: Activist Art Education in Studies in Art Education.43 PDF
Emme, M. (1999). Unruly Research: Visuality in the Academy to The Canadian Review of Research in Art Education. 26(1) 34-43.PDF
Emme, M. (1998).The Theory and Practice of Teaching to the Future: Community Activism and Art Education in School Arts 97(5) 6.
Emme, M. (1998). Photography(s) and Cultural Invisibility in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. 17 10-22. PDF
Emme, M.(1996). 3-Dimensional Portfolio Assessment in Art Education 49(1)
Emme, M. (1991). “Feminist Film Theory and Art Education”, in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (11). PDF
Emme, M. (1988).“The Meaning(s) of Lens Meaning” in The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. (9).PDF
CHAPTERS
Castro, J., Emme, M & Castro, A. (2018). Digital Technology: Material Learning and Elementary Art Education. In K. Grauer, R. Irwin, & M. Emme (Eds).Starting With (4th edition). Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M & Taylor, K. (2018). Sequential art and graphic novels: Creating with the space between pictures. In K. Grauer, R. Irwin, & M. Emme (Eds).Starting With (4th edition). Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. (2017) Drawing as the Invention of Language: Prairie Socialism and the Practicalities of AuthentiChildrenc ’s Art. In M. Binder, & S. Kind (Eds.) Drawing as Language: Celebrating the Work of Bob Steele. Netherlands: Sense
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) book 1 • Arrivals (at school and first questions). In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) book 2 • Investigations (of school and community). . In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) book 3 • Making Sense (and sharing). In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) An invitation for play-ful engagement in arts-based/image-based inquiry with kids. In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) Fotonovela as a Research Tool in Image - based Participatory Research with Immigrant Children. In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) Co-Researching with Children. In M. Emme and A. Kirova (Eds) Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A.(2017) Playing with Good Question. In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Steele, B. & Emme, M..(2017) Mentoring Children’s Authentic Drawing: Reflections on The Spontaneous, Uncoded Visual Language of Childhood Observation, Memory & Imagination. In M. Emme & A. Kirova (Eds)Good Question: Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth. Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M..(2016) Mute Speech, Books in Pieces and Emergent Research. In Shields, A., & Emme, M.(Eds)(2016) Emergent Art Education: Next Directions in Canadian Research Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. & Kirova, A. (2013) Body Critical: Child-centered Polymedia Research and Fotonovela. In S.W. Mckay, & M. Buffington (Eds.) Practice Theory Reston, VA: NAEA.
Kirova, A. & Emme, M. (2012) Immigrant Children’s Bodily Engagement in Accessing Their Lived Experiences of Immigration p. 141-162. In N. Friesen, C. Henriksson, T. Saevi (Eds.) Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Education: Methods and Practice. Rotterdam: Sense.
Emme, M., & Taylor, K. (2011). Sequential art and graphic novels: Creating with the space between pictures. In K. Grauer, R. Irwin, and M. Emme (Eds). Starting With (3rd edition).Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M. (2010) Lifemaps and Dreamtime. In M. Blatherwick, and H. Pearse (Eds.) What Works: Innovative Strategies for Teaching art). pp. 111-114.Victoria, BC: CSEA.
Emme, M., & Bergland, D. (2010) Unfinished: Internet Aesthetics, Interactive Digital Environments and Your Art Classroom. In C. Mullen and J. Rahn (Eds.) View Finding: Perspectives on new Media Curriculum in the Arts. New York: Peter Lang
Emme, M., & Kirova, A. (2010) Body/Image/Text: Fotonovela, Digital Technology and Poly-Media Narratives. In C. Mullen and J. Rahn (Eds.) View Finding: Perspectives on new Media Curriculum in the Arts. New York: Peter Lang
Emme, M. (2009) InCITE: Avante-gardist maneuvers in the field of art education. pp-15-17. In: K. Keifer-Boyd, M. Emme, & j. jagodzinski (Eds.) InCITE, InSIGHT, InSITE: Journal of social theory in Art Education – the first 25 years. Reston, VA: NAEA.
Emme, M. (2009) InSIGHT: Critical multi-vision of art education. pp-77-81. In: K. Keifer-Boyd, M. Emme, & j. jagodzinski (Eds.) InCITE, InSIGHT, InSITE: Journal of social theory in Art Education – the first 25 years. Reston, VA: NAEA.
Emme M., Kirova, A., & Dmytruk, R. (2007). Loneliness, boredom and solitude: The isolated student and art education. In R. Irwin, K. Grauer & M. Emme (Eds.), Readings in Art Education. Toronto: Canadian Society for Education through Art.
Emme, M (2004). Putting on Your Happy Face: Exploring Identity through Authentic Art Education. In K Grauer & R Irwin (Eds.), Starting With... (1st ed., pp. 27-33). Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Society for Education through Art.
Emme, M. (2000) Going Nowhere: Working With the Cyberspace Between our Ears. In D. Fehr, K. Fehr, & K. Keifer-Boyd (Eds.). Real World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professor Never Told You. New York: Falmer Press.
PRESENTATIONS
2017
Good Question: Play and Art as Approaches to Research Collaboration with Children and Youth. March 2018. The National Art Education Association Annual Conference. Seattle WA. 2017
Travel Restricted as part of recovery from a heart attack in April 2016.
Guest Lecturer Fotonovela and Graphic Novel literacy to EDCI 352 Multiliteracies (K. Sanford, Instructor) November 2, 2017
Guest Lecturer Fotonovela and Graphic Novel literacy to EDCI 352 Multiliteracies (T. Manning-Lewis, Instructor ) October 5, 2017 2016
The Art of Inventing Yourself (together). Keynote address. Founding meeting of the Newfoundland Art Teacher’s Association. March, 2016 Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. Keynote address. Creative self-medication and an Activist Artists' Collective. Founding meeting of the Newfoundland Art Teacher’s Association. March, 2016 Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.
Provincial Conference Presentation. Fotonovela! The workshop. Founding meeting of the Newfoundland Art Teacher’s Association. March, 2016 Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. Provincial Conference Presentation.
2015 Hybrid Studio Practice: Balancing Pencils and Pixels in the Contemporary Classroom. BCATA Conference, North Vancouver. October 2015. Provincial Conference Presentation.
Making Tomorrow with Fotonovela and Story Boxes. Making Tomorrow Conference, Victoria, BC. April, 2015. Provincial Conference Presentation. ‘Zines, Story telling and DIY magazine design. The Pandora Art Collective. Victoria, BC. September, 2015.
2014 Creative Self-medication and an Activist Artist’s Collective. CSEA Annual Conference Halifax, NS. October 2014 National Conference Presentation.
October Curriculum Café On “Voice without Organs” Faculty Invited symposium The ethical complexities of engaging with children’s experimentation in the arts. An invited symposium related to the exhibit Material Matters. May 2014
Faculty Invited symposium Innovation through He(art)felt Engagement. Institute for Studies and Innovation in University Community Engagement Faculty Invited symposium
Empathy and the Prosthetic Eye: What the changing body language of photography suggests about 21st century art, teaching and learning AERA Conference, Philadelphia, PA. April 2014.
International Conference Presentation. Emme, M. & Wiebe, M. (2014) Fotonovela! The Workshop. NAEA Conference2013
Emme, M. (2013)
Curriculum Unbound: The Minor Role of Arts in Education. Canadian Network for Arts and Learning, Founder’s Conference Kingston, October 2013. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2013) Living Artfully: Mapping The Geophilosophy Of Artists-Researchers-Teachers On The Far West Coast. CSSE Conference, Victoria, BC. May 2013. National Conference Symposium.
Emme, M. (2013) Gen’s World: Manga-based self-reflections on Aspberger’s and AdolescenceAn ARTS SIG Poster proposal. CSSE Conference Arts ABER, Victoria, BC. May 2013. National Conference SymposiumWith Robert Dalton.
Emme, M. (2013) Arts-based Approaches to the research Interview through Studio, Performance and Exchange. NAEA Conference, Fort Worth Texas. March 2013. International Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2013) New/Old Photography: Digital Negatives and Direct Photography. NAEA Conference, Fort Worth Texas. March 2013. International Conference Presentation.
2012
Emme, M. & Wiebe, M. (2012) Fotonovela! The Workshop. BCArt Teachers Annual Conference. October, Surrey, BC
Emme, M. (2012) Fear No Art. CSEA Conference, Edmonton, Alberta October 2012. National Conference Invited Keynote Lecture.
Emme, M. (2012) New/old photography: Digital Negatives and Direct Photography. CSEA Conference, Edmonton, Alberta October 2012. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2012) Arts-based Approaches to the Research Interview through Studio, Performance and Exchange. BCSEA Conference, Edmonton, Alberta October 2012. National Conference Presentation.
Kirova, A. & Emme, M. (2012) Emme, M. (2012) Involving Immigrant Children in Arts-based Research through Fotonovela: Exploring School Routines. European Conference on Educational Research. Cadiz, Spain. September 2012. International Conference Presentation.
Emme, M, & Kirova, A. (2012)Fotonovela as a Collaborative Research Process: Transgressing Research Boundaries through Embodiment and Playful Storytelling. 32nd International Geographical Congress. Köln, Germany. August, 2012. International Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2012) Feeling Beyond the Frame: Photography as an Empathetic Performance. BCATA Conference, Vancouver. February 2012. Provincial Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2012) Creating an Art Life: Stories of Studio Research and Reflective Practice. NAEA Conference, New York. March 2012 With Robert Dalton. International Conference Presentation.
2011
Emme, M. & Robert Dalton (2011).Gen’s world: The amazing narrative drawings of a young woman with Asperger syndrome NAEA National Conference. Seattle, WA March 2011. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. & Robert Dalton (2011).Stories of Studio Research and Reflective Practice. CSEA National Conference. Fredricton, NB October 2011. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2011).Technics and Desire: The Shifting Erotics of the Viewfinder and its Impact on Art and Education. CSEA National Conference. Fredricton, NB October 2011. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2011) Risking Research: On Aesthetics and Ethics in Visual Inquiry. Provoking Curriculum. Edmonton, AB, October 2011. Invited National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2011).Technics and Desire: The Shifting Erotics of the Viewfinder and its Impact on Art and Education. Society for Photographic Education (NW) annual conference. Spokane, WA November 2011. Annual Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2011).Media Convergence: What are We Teaching in Today’s Social Media World? (Panel Discussion). Society for Photographic Education (NW) annual conference. Spokane, WA November 2011. Annual Conference Presentation.
2010
Emme, M. (2010) Using and Valuing Arts-based Research?: The Art of Reading Photography. 4th Canadian National Symposium for the Arts in Learning, Winnipeg, MB, December 2010. With Joe Norris and Jennifer Watt. National Conference Presentation.
Emme, M. (2010) This is Your ArtLife: Framing Your Identity as an Artist and Teacher. 4th Canadian Society for education through Art, Toronto, ON, November 2010.
2009
Emme, M. (2009) Reflections and Projections on Social Theory and Art Education. NAEA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2009 With Karen Kieffer-Boyd and jan jagodzinski.
Emme,M.(2009)Tableau Vivant: Artful Photography for More Students with Less Equipment. CSEA National Conference, Vancouver, BC, October, 2009
Emme,M.(2009) Gen’s World: The Imaginative Drawings of a Student who has Autism. CSEA National Conference, Vancouver, BC, October, 2009
Emme,M.(2009) The Playful Body/Image/Text: Fotonovela and Poly-Media Narratives in Research with Children. First International Conference on Visual Method. Leeds, UK, September, 2009 With Anna Kirova
2009
Emme,M.(2009) Photoshop Semiotics: Research in the Age of Digital Manipulation. First International Conference on Visual Method. Leeds, UK, September, 2009
Kirova, A. (2009) Play as Dancing Across Meanings: Body/Image and Poly-Media Text. IHSR Conference. Molde, Norway With Michael J. Emme. June 2009.
Emme, M. (2009)'The Unrepentant Ego' and 'the Cathedral of Erotic Misery': Taking Creative Freedoms Inside the Box NAEA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2009 With Robert Dalton.
2008
Unbindings: Pluralistic Curriculum as Co-created Arts-based Research with Immigrant Children. Conference Presentation for Celebrating Pluralism: Honouring the Work of F. Graeme Chalmers.
Stories of Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigrant Children’s Exploration of Peer Relationships through FotonovelasAERA Conference Presentation. March 24-28, NewYork, NY.
Viewfinder: On the Changing Theory, History, Art and Pedagogy of Looking through a Camera CSEA National Conference, Montreal, PQ, November, 2008 With Robert Dalton. nal Conference Presentation
Creating Visual Narratives: Fotonovela with Carolina Cambre. 8th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series. University of Alberta June 2008
Maintaining Creativity while Integrating and Utilizing Technology within Visual Arts Classrooms CSEA National Conference, Montreal, PQ, November, 2008 With Kathy Browning and Joanna Black. National Conference Presentation
The Art of the Fotonovela BCATA Conference, Saltspring Island, October, 2008
2007
‘The Unrepentant Ego' and 'the Cathedral of Erotic Misery': Taking Creative Freedoms Inside the Box BCATA Conference, North Vancouver, October, 2007 With Robert Dalton.
2006
Representations of Compliance and Resistance: Immigrant Children’s Exploration of School Routines through Fotonovelas AERA, San Francisco, CA, April 11, 2006
2006
The Fotonovela as a Frame for Immigrant Children’s Reflections on Life in a New School International Society for Education through Art. Viseau, Portugal, March 4, 2006
Darkroom Hermeneutics: Photography as Metaphor and Method in Qualitative Research International Society for Education through Art. Viseau, Portugal, March 3,
2005
Using Photography as a Means of Phenomenological Seeing: ‘Doing Phenomenology’ with Immigrant Children. International Human Science Research (IHSR) conference, Bournemouth, UK. August 11, 2005
Sharing Immigrant Children’s Experiences of Schooling through the Development of Visual Narratives. European Early Childhood Education Research Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 2, 2005
Darkroom Hermeneutics: Photography as Metaphor and Method in Qualitative Research. March 30, 2006 The Society for Photographic Education, Chicago, IL, USA
The Rigours of Arts-Based Research, The Canadian Society for Education through Art, Edmonton, Alberta, October 28th, 2005. Co-presenters: jan jagodzinski, Miriam Cooley
The Rigours of Arts-Based Research, The National Art Education Association, Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 2005. Co-presenters: jan jagodzinski, Miriam Cooley
The Fotonovela, National Art Education Association, Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 2005
Fotonovela: Visual Storytelling and Literacy, The Canadian Society for Education through Art. Goose Bay, Labrador October 8, 2005 Co-presenters: Anna Kirova.
2004
Painting, Creativity and Spirituality United Church of Canada. Banff, Alberta. August 15, 2004
Photoshop Semiotics: Research in the Age of Digital Manipulation National Art Education Association. Denver, Colorado. April 17, 2004
2003
Collage as Method NAEA 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 2003
2001
A Tale of Two Constructivism(s) ArtReach 2001, Toronto, Ontario November 2001.
Creative play and Children’s experience of the media Invited Lecture at Cinekid 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2001.
Critical Creativity and the media Invited Lecture at Cinekid 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2001.
Art-Based Pedagogy and Media Education. Invited Lecture at Cinekid 2001, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2001.
Artist as Teacher/ Teacher as Artist. Calgary, Alberta, September 2001.
Postcards With an Edge. National Art Education Conference, New York, March 2001
Picturing the Elementary Classroom Edmonton Teachers’ Convention, Edmonton, Alberta, March 2001
2000
Issues and Concerns in Alberta Arts Education ATA Arts Council Annual Conference, Banff Alberta, October 31, 2000
CriticISM: Visuality as Activism in the Academy Summit 2000, International Media Studies Conference, Toronto, May, 2000;
CriticISM: Visuality as Activism in the Academy National Art Education Association, Los Angeles, April, 2000;
CriticISM: Visuality as Activism in the Academy Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute, University of Alberta, March, 2000.
Lens Media and Literacy at Literacy and ‘the Metis Experience’ a symposium of the Society for Metis Literacy, Edmonton, February 2000
Photography, Children and Invisibility, Aggregate Arts, Edmonton, April 2000.
1999
Visuality and Research, U of A Department of Elementary Education, Graduate Seminar, September 1999
That’s Not TV: A Video Arts Collection for the Washington Public Schools Artstime ‘99, March 1999, Shoreline, WA.
1998
CriticISM: Video Art and Activism in the classroom. The WAEA Annual Annual Conference October 1998, Shoreline, WA
Visuality in the Academy The Third Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Liberal Arts conference. May 1998, Banff, AB.
The Art of Canadian Animation as part of ‘Videmus’ a CWU film and lecture series. February 1998, Ellensburg, WA.
1997
Performance as Process/ Process as Performance The WAEA Annual Conference. October 1997, Olympia, WA.
The Dimensions of Perception: Memory, Postmodernism and Perception at ‘Untold Stories about Perception: Honouring the Work of Ronald MacGregor’ an international symposium. June 1997 Vancouver, British Columbia.
Playing with History and Criticism The WAEA Elementary Art Educators spring conference. May 1997, Seattle, WA.
Unruly Research: Visuality in the Academy The NAEA Annual Conference. March 1997, New Orleans, LA.
The Evolution of Tools: On Art, Technology and Meaning The Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education. February 1997, Seattle WA.
1996
Books for People Who Look: Teaching History and Criticism Visually The WAEA Annual Conference. October 1996, Silverdale, WA.
Pedagogical Spaces: Architecture as Curriculum. the CSEA National Conference. February 1996, Burnaby, B C
1995
Visual Research The NAEA Annual Conference. April 1995, Houston, TX.
Children, Visual Self-Representation, and the Mass Media The BCATA Annual Conference. February, 1995, Delta, B C.
1994
3-Dimensional Portfolio Assessment. The Fifth Annual State of Washington Higher Education Assessment Conference. February 1994 Seattle, WA
1993
Art Education and Media Studies. Teaching Media Literacy: Talk Back & Take Charge sponsored by Media 911. April 1993, Seattle, WA.
Photographic Education and the Deconstructed Text. The Society for Photographic Education National Conference. March 1993, Seattle, WA.
Critical Practice in the Classroom. The WAEA Spring, Regional Art Teachers’ Workshop, March 1993, Richland WA.
Critical Performance Art and Personal Cultural Research. The BCATA Annual Conference, February 1993, Kelowna, B.C.
1992
The Photographic Representation of Children. Society for Photographic Education North West Regional Conference. November 1992, Olympia, WA.
Critical Performance Art. The WAEA Annual Conference. October 1992, Seattle, WA.
Visual Criticism: Media Studies and Art Education. At Constructing Culture: Media Education in the 1990’s. May 1992, Guelph, ON.
Karsh, Portraiture and Cultural Invisibility. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,January 1992, Halifax, NS.
1991
Media Studies and Art Education. The Atlantic Educators’ Conference at the University of New Brunswick. November 1991, Fredricton, NB.
1991
Photography and the Ideology of the Textbook. The Photo Seminar, Studio Division, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. October 1991, Halifax, NS.
1990
Contemporary Photography and the Art Classroom. The Halifax County Art Teachers’ Inservice Programme. November 1990, Coal Harbour, N.S.
Popular Culture and Contemporary Criticism. The NSATA Annual Conference. October 1990, Halifax, NS.
1988
Recent Photography and What Critics Are Saying About It. The CSEA National Convention. November 1988, Calgary, AB.
Critical Viewing and Photography. The BCATA Annual Conference. February 1988, Coquitlam, B.C.
1985
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Photography. The CSEA National Conference. November 1985, Montreal, PQ.
