Staff Profile | Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

About
Education
Research

Biography

Adam Farcus is an artist, burgeoning linguist, curator, organizer, and teacher.
Gender pronouns: they/them/theirs

Teaching Interests & Areas

Foundations, Academic Writing, Curatorial Practices, TESL, & Anti-Hegemonic Pedagogies

Research Interests & Areas

Art Education, Climate Change, DEIA, Sociolinguistics, & Curatorial Practices

MFA Studio Art

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

BFA Painting & Drawing

Illinois State University

Normal, IL

AA Fine Art

Joliet Junior College

Joliet, IL

Journal Article

Adam R. Farcus (2021) Seeing and Reading Color: Resisting Hegemonic Power From Within a Foundations Art Classroom, Art Education, 74:5, 49-54, DOI: 10.1080/00043125.2021.1928472

Presentations

Graduate Student Project Share and Workshop. FATE 2023: Serious Play. (2023)

Into Shadows, Terrors, Years. Clinical Climate Change 2022: Mental Health and Well-being for Patients and Clinicians. Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research. (2022)

Persistence of Vision. Futures: National Artist-Run Spaces Symposium. (2022)

Seeing and Reading Color: Resisting Hegemonic Power from Within a Foundations Art Classroom. SECAC 2022. (2022)

What Must We Do Now? Foundations Educators Respond to a Call for Increased Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access. SECAC 2022. (2022)

On Conflicting Ideologies. FATE 2021: Infrastructure. Foundations in Art, Theory and Education. (2021)

What We See: How the New Civil Rights Movement Will Change Art Pedagogy. FATE 2019: Foundations in Flux. (2019)

Ideologies, Implicit Biases, and Exclusion in the Digital Media Classroom. FATE 2017: To the Core and Beyond. (2017)

Miss Nelson is Missing: Fostering Risk-Taking and Student Autonomy in Introductory Studio Classes. FATE 2015: Tectonic Shifts. (2015)

Performing Playce: Artist Interventions in Public Space. Performance Studies International 16: Performing Publics. (2010)