teaching
Lisa Jarrett is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of Montana's School of Art.
“I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student
to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...[a conception of] education as the practice
of freedom...education that connects the will to know with the will to become.”
--bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
teaching philosophy
The creative act is a powerful platform for dialogue—social, political, personal, or otherwise. Locating each student’s voice in this exchange of ideas is my focus, wherein distinctions between the learning experience and the creative experience are nonexistent. As an arts educator I do not dictate form or content. Rather, I facilitate learning experiences that magnify the varied nature of practicing artists—art as education, art as process, art as humanizing experience. Within the context of increasingly global communities and communication styles this fluidity is a necessary component to arts education. Cultivating social responsibility and critical thinking through contemporary art practice is therefore central to my philosophy. And it is to this end that lectures, projects, and activities that I design for students encourage idea development and critical thinking while honing formal skill sets and visual acuity.
student work samples
