Wanda Knight
Dr. Wanda Knight is associate professor of art education. She has taught all grade levels of the K–12 spectrum in various regions of the United States, including rural, suburban, and urban communities, as well as overseas, and served as registrar and assistant curator at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. As a former principal and recipient of an Annenberg Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge Grant — used to implement an arts-focused curriculum — Dr. Knight led various educational public school initiatives designed to provide fair, ethical, and inclusive learning environments that foster creative and critical thinking.
Her teaching, academic, and research explorations in visual culture, cultural studies, and pedagogies of difference (i.e. class, gender, race, ability) mirror her pragmatic experience and quest for equity and social justice. Dr. Knight is president-elect of the United States Society for Education in the Arts (USSEA) and a past chair of NAEA's Committee on Multi-Ethnic Concerns. Dr. Knight also serves on the editorial review boards of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Visual Culture and Gender, and The Journal of Multicultural and Cross Cultural Research in Art Education. She has also served as editor of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, published manuscripts, book chapters, and reviews in leading scholarly journals, and presented numerous papers at local, state, national, and international conferences. Dr. Knight's achievements in art/education have been recognized through various awards including the Eugene Grigsby Award for outstanding contribution to the field of art education, the Kenneth Marantz Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University, and Who's Who in American Education.