Ann Holt, Ph.D., holds a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.A. in art education from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY as well as Adelphi University in Long Island, NY. She completed her doctoral work in art education with a minor in women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Penn State University. Her dissertation titled User Experience with Archives and Feminist Teaching Conversations with the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection explores a feminist transdisciplinary orientation to the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection and broadens understanding about engaging and encountering art education archival records. Holt sees archives as social spaces for experiential pedagogy, feminist scholarship, and activism, and her work with archives seeks to expand on notions of using archival materials as both forms of information and things to experience. She also writes about issues of access to archives and marginalized histories of art education. Holt’s (2012) historical study, “Lowenfeld at Hampton (1939 – 1946): Empowerment, Resistance, Activism, and Pedagogy” is published in Studies in Art Education. She also co-authored “Archiving a Living Curriculum: Judy Chicago, Through the Flower, and The Dinner Party” (2013) as well as presented and published her research on access, communication and pedagogy with art education archives in the Society of American Archives Research Forum (2010).
