NAEA Open Studio: The Art of Social Theory: CSTAE Digital Curriculum Portfolio

CSTAE Digital Curriculum Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI 

Verónica Soria-Martínez holds a PhD and a master’s degree in visual arts and intermedia from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and focuses on visual culture and sonic arts. From 2014 to 2018, she was part of the art collective Cràter, which created community projects and public site interventions in Spain. Her research has been featured in various academic journals, including the Leonardo Music Journal, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education. Her work has been presented at numerous conferences and exhibited internationally, including at Museu de Belles Arts in Spain and Rockford Art Museum. Before joining UW-Whitewater as an assistant professor of art education, she taught visual arts and new media at Rockford Public Schools, New Genres Art Space, and Rockford University. Her research interests span sound art, visual culture, art education, digital art, and critical theory. 

CSTAE Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, Miami University 
Oxford, OH 

Luke Meeken is an assistant professor of art education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, on the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people. His work attends to ways we can be more critical and sensitive toward the material qualities of digital places and things.  

Luke draws on multiple strains of digital materialism, as well as critical and anticolonial conceptions of place. His research examines the material histories, politics, and activities of the digital places and things youth participate in and create. 

Prior to his doctoral studies, Luke was a high school digital and traditional media art teacher, as well as the lead curriculum designer for Virginia Commonwealth University’s CurrentLab project. He also developed and taught summer programming with the Smithsonian, exploring critical and creative potentials of digital materials with middle and high school students. 

CSTAE Past Coordinator; Assistant Professor of Art Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 
Little Rock, AR 

Emily Jean Hood is an artist, teacher, and researcher currently serving as assistant professor and coordinator of art education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is an award-winning art educator with over 14 years of experience in both K–12 and higher education. She is the Past Coordinator of the Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education, an Interest Group of the National Art Education Association. She is also a member of the Arkansas Art Educators and the International Society of Education >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203292482 BCX4">Art. Her scholarship has been published in Studies in Art Education, the Art Education journal, and the International Journal of Education >span class="NormalTextRun SCXW203292482 BCX4">Art, among others. 

CSTAE Associate Digital Curator; PhD Candidate, Pennsylvania State University 
State College, PA 

Ye Sul Park (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in art education at Penn State University who has been fortunate enough to take on several artistic identities, including artist, educator, curator, and researcher. She is interested in how new media and emerging technologies reshape art pedagogies and relational dynamics between humans and nonhuman machines. Through her research and practice, Ye Sul aims to help students navigate the evolving media environment creatively and critically.