Bert Stabler

Assistant Professor

Dean of Education

Office

Center for the Visual Arts - CVA 203B

Office Hours

By appointment.

Office Phone

(309) 438-7938office
phone

astable@ilstu.eduemail

Website

www.bertstabler.comwebsite

About
Education
Research

Biography

I spent nearly eighteen years in Chicago as a public school art teacher, art critic, curator, activist, and artist. In graduate school I got involved in anticarceral activist projects, and my dissertation was on a social practice project that helped to close an Illinois supermax prison. I publish on issues of race, disability, and incarceration in relation to education and other institutions.

Current Courses

307.001Art For Diverse Populations

401.001Foundations Of Art Education

497.001Introduction To Research Methodology

Teaching Interests & Areas

I see teaching as a form of expression (and learning as well). I endorse playful and emergent forms of collaboration, research, and making. I draw on my own experiences as a teacher and my related research interests in forming pedagogy and curriculum.

Research Interests & Areas

My research interests are in contemporary art, race, disability, and incarceration, with a focus on educational institutions.

Ph D Art education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

MA Art education

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

BA English, economics

Oberlin College

Oberlin, Ohio

Journal Article

Long, R., & Stabler, A. “This is NOT okay:” Building a creative collective against academic ableism. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (2021)

Stabler, B. A Sentimental Art Education. Studies in Art Education 62.1 (2021): 63-81.

Stabler, A. “Press Charges”: Art Class, White Feelings, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (2021)

Stabler, A. Institutional model: a modest proposal. PLATFORM (2020)

Stabler, B. The Contractual Aesthetics of Sharecropping in Black Conceptualism. Critical Arts 34.6 (2020): 41-55.

Presentations

Civic Engagement Grant presentation: Visiting artists Paulina Camacho and Matthew Steinke. 2021 Teaching and Learning Symposium: “Civic Engagement in Extraordinary Times”. ISU Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. (2021)

Conjuring Criminality: Police and the Sorcery of Images. 109th CAA Annual Conference. College Art Association. (2021)

Information as art in the era of data-driven education reform. Illinois Art Education Association Conference. Illinois Art Education Association. (2021)

Letter to the Queen of Art Education. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. (2021)

"Press charges": The intersection of art class, white feelings, and the school-to-prison pipeline. 2021 NAEA National Convention. National Art Education Association. (2021)

Text in the work of disabled conceptual artists Gary Cannone and Christopher Samuel. Disability Studies, Arts & Education Conference. Disability Studies, Arts & Education. (2021)

Laurie Jo Reynolds and anti-carceral organizing as feminist public art. 108th CAA Annual Conference. College Art Association. (2020)

Public school art teacher autonomy in a segregated city. 2020 NAEA National Convention. National Art Education Association. (2020)

The Able-achian project: creative demands for campus services. Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium. Lamar Dodd School of Art, Universith of Georgia. (2020)

I make comparisons between David Hammons' 1990 artwork African-American Flag and the "Thin Blue Line" flag, with reference to the visual culture of schooling.

Grants & Contracts

GTC Faculty Development Grant. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2022)

University Teaching Grant. Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. Illinois State University. (2022)

Harold K. Sage Fund Grant. Office of the Provost. Illinois State University. (2021)

Second Round-FY21 Dean’s Faculty Professional Development Award Program. Dean's Office, Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2021)

Teaching Innovation Award. ISU Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. Illinois State University. (2021)