Simonette Quamina
Simonette Quamina earned her MFA in Printmaking from RISD and has also studied at the City College of New York and the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. Before joining the faculty at RISD she was an adjunct lecturer in visual art at Brown University and an adjunct professor at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and the College Arts Association (CAA). Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions including Drawing from the Multiple at the Mill Gallery in Pawtucket, RI (2013) and State of the Art 2010 at the Chase Young Gallery in Boston, MA (2010).
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
TLAD 044G-01
COLLEGIATE TEACHING: PREPARATION + REFLECTION
SECTION DESCRIPTION
How can we add to the future enrichment of our disciplines? How do we make future collegiate teaching a more meaningful practice? This semester-long professional practice course is designed for artists, designers, architects, and educators who are considering teaching in higher education after graduation and/or those who will be teaching during Wintersession as they complete their course of study at RISD. The goal is to introduce graduate students to a reflective teaching foundation and to provide an orientation to the collegiate teaching and learning experience. The first half of the course is composed of readings and discussions related to seven teaching portfolio assignments. The second half of the course entails Individual Teaching Practice Sessions in which students prepare a class that is observed, videotaped, and receives detailed feedback from faculty and peer observers. Major outcomes of the course are: a partial teaching portfolio including a teaching and inclusivity philosophy, course proposals and an extensive course syllabus. This is the first course in the required sequence for the Certificate of Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design.
Elective