Social Justice Art Education Curriculum Team (C-Team)

Linda Stein

Linda Stein, as the Founding President of the non-profit Have Art: Will Travel! Inc (HAWT) for Courageous Kindness, addressing bullying and diversity, established the C-Team in 2015 with Karen Keifer-Boyd, as lead, to form a team to develop curriculum with Linda Stein’s art at the center. Stein works closely as consultant and collaborator with the C-Team, and has developed workshops, videos, and resources as encounters with her art, which are integrated throughout this website. As of 2025, Stein's art is now in 72 museum collections, and the C-Team is referenced in the materials, reaching an international audience. Stein’s narrative bio is linked here.

Karen Keifer-Boyd

Karen Keifer-Boyd, professor of art education and women’s, gender, & sexuality studies at The Pennsylvania State University, formed, in June 2015, and lead a curriculum team (i.e., Linda Stein, Cheri Ehrlich, Ann Holt, Wanda Knight, Yen-Ju Lin, and Adetty Peréz de Miles) to develop encounters with the exhibition and series, Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females — Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein. The team is composed of art curriculum scholars and practitioners with expertise in k-12 teaching, museum education, information communication technologies, and social justice curriculum development. In July 2016, Keifer-Boyd coordinated a week of curriculum development with Stein’s art at Stein’s studio in New York’s Tribeca area, inviting C-Team members to facilitate a session with art teachers. Keifer-Boyd connected the full-week of workshops to an online graduate course for art teachers enrolled from throughout world.

In June 2017, Keifer-Boyd initiated and lead the development of a grant proposal to further the research on developing curriculum focus on encounters with Linda Stein’s traveling exhibitions of several new series of work. The C-Team received a National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) award for Fostering Upstanders to Injustice through Art Encounters, a collaborative, multi-year research project. The NAEF grant is for research on the effectiveness of curricula intended to teach social justice through art. In 2017, Keifer-Boyd also further developed curricular encounters with Stein’s art series during an artist residency at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana, and as a scholar lecturer and teaching visit to Grand Rapids, Michigan, as well as in teaching high school students at a workshop in Brooklyn, New York. She participated as panelist at A.I.R. Gallery in the DUMBO Arts District in New York with a focus on Linda Stein’s art in the exhibition. In 2018, Keifer-Boyd facilitated workshops with Stein’s art in Oregon, such as at the Portland Art Museum, coordinated with the Oregon Art Education Association.

Keifer-Boyd’s goal is to continue to build Penn State’s Special Collections as an important place to research histories of art education and particularly feminist art education. Following accession of several feminist art education archives, including in 2019, the National Art Education Association Women’s Caucus Archives and the Linda Stein Art Education Collection, Keifer-Boyd has been active in presenting about the archives at conferences, in courses, and in serving as coordinator of the Linda Stein Upstander Award to activate use of the archives. For example, she created a website about the archives presented at the Pennsylvania Art Education Association in 2019.

Since 2015, Keifer-Boyd has initiated and developed curricular content for the Social Justice in Art Education with Linda Stein’s art website, and coordinated contributions to the website by the C-Team members and beyond. The C-Team’s curricular research and development has culminated in several webinars, workshops, website resource-building, and publications, including Teaching and assessing social justice art education: Power, politics, and possibilities (Routledge, 2023).

Keifer-Boyd curated the Profiles of Vulnerability & Protection exhibition, which was on view January 18 to April 20, 2025 at the Palmer Museum of Art. The exhibition featured 7 works by Linda Stein in the Palmer collection in conversation with 19 artists. The accompany website with links to bring augmented reality into any space, and interactive prompts regarding vulnerable identities, vulnerable labors, and vulnerable environments is linked here. She presented Linda Stein's art and the Profiles exhibition at the conference, “Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art,” on 13 September 2024, at Middlesex University, UK. The 39 videos of speakers and 2 keynotes from the conference are linked here, useful in teaching and research. She reworked her  “Profiles of Vulnerability and Protection: Identities, Environments, and Labors” presentation into a book chapter for editor Katy Deepwell’s  book to be published by Vernon Press in 2026.

Keifer-Boyd’s narrative bio and vita is linked here.

Wanda B. Knight

In the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Board Reports and at NAEA Delegate’s Assembly presentation in 2024-2025, as well as other speaker engagements, as NAEA President, Knight referred to Linda Stein’s art as important work addressing fear, courage, and feminisms. Serving now in 2025-2026 as NAEA Past President, her contribution as part of the C-Team, is to continue broad reach with Stein name recognition such as being a speaker at the Eastern Region Division meeting in RI, and in roles as NAEF Board member, Chair of NAEA Finance Committee, and serving on NAEA Foundations Committee and the Research Committee. Knight's bio is linked here.

Adetty Pérez de Miles

Adetty Pérez de Miles, Ph.D., is associate professor and art education program coordinator at Texas State University. She earned a dual title Ph.D. degree in art education and women’s studies at Penn State University. Her research specializations include contemporary art, socially engaged art practice, art from Latin American, decolonial and feminist theories, and teacher education. She is a founding member of the HAWT Curricular Team (C-team). In 2016, Pérez de Miles co-curated and created museum education curricula for “Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females” at the National Center for Jewish Art at the Museum of Biblical Art (MBA) in Dallas, Texas. According to the MBA’s Museum Registrar the exhibition was attended by approximately 28,000 people. An estimated 5,600 students attended the exhibition from 74 schools (High Schools -26 groups; Public Schools -6 groups; Home Schools – 21 groups; College Groups -21 groups).

In 2016, Dr. Pérez de Miles organized and chaired, “Art as a Catalyst for Gender Justice & Moxie” Symposium with keynote lecture by Linda Stein and Leah Lax at the University of North Texas. The symposium included a public lecture and a variety of activities to provide graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with the artists, such as a public lecture, class visits, and a major art exhibition of Stein’s work at the MBA. Research for this work was published in the journal of Art Education in 2017. In 2016, Pérez de Miles facilitated a session with art teachers and graduate students in Stein’s studio in New York. The C-Team received a National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) award. The team’s curricular research and development culminated in a co-authored book,  Teaching and Assessing Social Justice Art Education: Power, Politics, and Possibilities (Routledge, 2023).

Pérez de Miles’s goal is to encourage art education students to develop critical consciousness about social issues and to foster a deep understanding of the role art and artists play in reflecting, critiquing, and challenging societal norms. This empowers students to become active, informed and interconnected citizens. Pérez de Miles’s narrative bio and vita is linked here

Ann Holt

Ann Holt, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of art education at Penn State. Holt’s role on the HAWT C-Team is in creating networking opportunities for art teachers to engage with Stein’s art. From 2015 to 2017, Holt worked closely with Linda Stein at Stein Studios and HAWT, as studio manager and then Executive Director. In 2021, she published “Gender justice: A conversation with artist Linda Stein” in the book, NAEA Women's Caucus Lobby Activism: Feminism(s) + art education. She developed BODY SCULPTURE NARRATIVES through Linda Stein’s series, The Fluidity of Gender, adaptable for MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL students. In this encounter, students, using The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein (FoG) as a departure point to explore identity and protection through the creation of a body sculpture and incorporate sound and light interactivity as well as an accompanying voice narrative. This encounter provides a way to visually represent an answer to the question: What story do I want to share about protection?

Holt uses the book, Teaching and assessing social justice art education: Power, politics, and possibilities (Routledge, 2023) in her teaching and regularly uses Stein archives at Penn State with classes. In 2026, she will be in Sri Lanka with doctoral advisee, Carly Sherman, to work with the ArtsAction Group in a women’s shelter, and will introduce encounters with Stein’s art.

Ann Holt's bio is linked here.

Cheri Ehrlich

Ehrlich runs the Saturday Art Lab (SAL) at SUNY, New Paltz and introduces undergrads teaching in SAL to the encounters on the SJAE with Linda Stein’s art website. One student team looked to the Power encounter and explored ideas on empowerment to develop their art lessons to create empowerment logos, which were cut from cardboard at the University’s fabrication lab and then covered with vinyl. In 2026, her goal is to apply for a SUNY system education programing grant to support developing and implementing curricula with Stein's “Below the Eyes” traveling exhibition. Cheri Ehrlich's bio is linked here.

Yen-Ju Lin

Yen-Ju Lin, Ph.D., is an art educator, instructional technologist, researcher, and graphic designer. Yen-Ju joined the C-team in 2015 and built the infrastructure of Social Justice Art Education with Linda Stein’s Art curriculum website (SJAE website). She developed the Interactive Tapestries featured on the SJAE website, providing participants with a dynamic platform to engage with the online exhibition "Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females — Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein." Through tagging specific elements or the entire artwork, participants can contribute their own interpretations or pose questions. Her responsibilities extended to conducting web analytics to assess participant interaction with the SJAE website's curriculum content. Utilizing NVivo 9, a qualitative data analysis software, she facilitated collaborative data analysis among the C-team members involved in the Fostering Upstanders to Injustice through Art Encounters research project. Her ongoing involvement includes working with the C-team members to curate the curriculum content for the SJAE website.

Lin prepared guidance to create ChatGPT tailored lessons from Encounters, and her goal in 2026 is to collect different examples from introducing use of ChatGPT with Linda Stein encounters in classes and add examples to the SJAE website.
Lin's bio is linked here.

Linda Hoeptner Poling

Hoeptner Poling, professor of art education at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, was the 2022 recipient of the Linda Stein Upstander Award administered by Penn State University Libraries. She was honored and presented her K-12 upstander curriculum from the exhibition “Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females” at Kent State University’s Center for Visual Arts Gallery with artist Linda Stein on September 7, 2023. Her presentation is linked here.