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Lori Kent was born in New Orleans and shaped by the culturally rich American south. Fortunate to work first as a doctoral student (Ed. D., Columbia University, 2001) then as artist and professor, she has been based in New York City for fourteen years. Dr. Kent received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow (2009-10). At Kutztown University (PA), she teaches visual culture and critical studies as an assistant professor of Visual Studies. Since 2007, she has been on the editorial review board of the art journal FATE-in-Review. Publications include critical reviews in NY Arts and Ceramic Review UK and articles in The International Journal of Art & Design Education, Art Education, FATE-in-Review, ISEA Newsletter, and the upcoming book: Practice Theory. As an artist, she has received two Puffin Foundation awards and Pollock-Krasner grant, and Gallo award (UMass Boston), a Jerome Fellowship at the Anderson Center, a studio residency at both the Harvey Foundation, Venice, and Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, New York. Post-Hurricane Katrina, her work is focused on public art on the subjects of community building, memory, and place in New Orleans.
upcoming-events
March 5, 2010: Lori Kent will be speaking at TEDxWarsaw
March 22, 23, 2010: Workshop at Hyper Island , Stockholm and Karlskrona, Sweden
April 7, 2010: Lori Kent will present a paper at the University of Lodz’s Theory that Matters conference
April 26, 2010: Lecture at TAIK, Alto University of Art and Design, Helsinki
portfolio
publications
Publications, Abstracts, Videos, and Conference Papers:
• Emerging Resistance: New Orleans Psychogeography as Constructed through Memory-based Visual Arts
• The Artist’s Conversation:Approaches to a Postmodern Context
• Enlivening the Old with the New: 21st-Century Thinking Applied to 16th-Century Art Worlds
• 100 Interesting Things: A Foundations-level Search for Content and Meaning (p.16)
consulting
Dr. Lori Kent lectures and conducts workshops on the topics of Community-based Arts, The Cultural Implications of Digital Technology, American Visual Culture and Visual Literacy, and Creativity in the Arts, Design, and Business.
Let me know if you would like to have a conversation on 21c creativity.
in-the-works
In 2010, Lori Kent is :
• collaborating on a start up non-profit designed to bring art-based digital technology skills to children (look for updates on this site)
• developing new courses on creativity and the visual culture of new technologies
• implementing a project, in New Orleans schools, on using the computer as a tool in visual memoir.
• completing articles on De-Schooling Digital-Based Design Education: A Swedish Model and Photography as Performance: Two Acts in New Orleans.
