Shana Cinquemani

Shana Cinquemani is an early childhood/elementary art educator and researcher. Her research interests are grounded in ethical research practices with children, relationships between children and adults in the art classroom space, curriculum inquiry and theory in early childhood art, the conceptualization of children’s art as a meaningful socio-cultural practice, and ideas about motherscholarship in art education. She has worked as a museum educator, a preschool teaching assistant and an elementary and middle school art teacher. She is the founder and director of the Mini Makerz Art Studio, a community-based program that offers free, high-quality early childhood visual arts programs to young children and families in the greater Providence, RI area.  

Shana has published her research in various peer-reviewed publications and edited collections,and is currently co-editing a book on motherscholarship, young children and the arts. She has presented her work at local, national and international venues and is past president of the Early Childhood Art Educators Interest Group for the National Art Education Association. Additionally, she is serving on the inaugural editorial review board for a new peer-reviewed journal titled Childhood Art: An International Journal of Research.