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
497.001Introduction To Research Methodology
211.001Media, Techniques & Inquiry For Middle-Level and High Schools
211.002Media, Techniques & Inquiry For Middle-Level and High Schools
430.001Media, Techniques & Inquiry for Secondary Schools
430.002Media, Techniques & Inquiry for Secondary Schools
451.002Special Projects: Art Education
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.
Book, Chapter
Stabler, B. Letter to the Queen of Art Education. Travis, S., Smith, A., Hernández-Cabal, C. and Lucero, J. (EDs), Experiments in Art Education: How Do We Live Questions Through Art?. Routledge (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Stabler, B. False Flag. Jorge Lucero and Catalina Hernandez-Cabal (EDs), What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art & Teaching?. Amsterdam University of the Arts (2023): 235-241.
Journal Article
Stabler, B. Data, disability, detour, détournement. Boni Wozolek and Walter Gershon (EDs). Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 39.1b (2024): 1-16.
Stabler, B. Disabling critique: Structural barriers to critical disability approaches in teacher education. Feminist Pedagogy 5.2 (2024): 5.
Stabler, B. Visionary barricades: Art class as memorial factory. Cala Coats and Amanda Alexander (EDs). Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 41.1 (2024): 141-159.
Stabler, B. Art evading confinement: Abolition as Universal Design. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 40.1 (2023): 32-55.
Stabler, B., & MacPhee, J. Artist portfolio: posters about policing (interview with Josh MacPhee). Albert Stabler, Mira Rai Waits (EDs), Body Cam: Visual Regimes of Policing. Visual Arts Reseach 48.1 (2022): 5.
Presentations
Art about school: Creative research on the institution. National Art Education Association Annual Convention. National Art Education Association. (2024)
Black disabled women artists and the improvisation of confinement. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference. American Educational Research Association. (2024)
Building belonging through equity: Simple steps to make your lessons culturally responsive and relevant using contemporary artists. Illinois Art Education Association Annual Conference. Illinois Art Education Association. (2024)
Elevating underrepresented arts educators: Empowering voices & diversifying perspectives. Illinonis Art Education Association Annual Conference. Illinonis Art Education Association. (2024)
Guerrilla assemblage in the context of urban education. College Art Association Annual Conference. College Art Association. (2024)
Let the artists be your guide: Culturally responsive lesson /activity share. Illinois Art Education Association Annual Conference. Illinois Art Education Association. (2024)
“Queerness is in the horizon”: Performance art as prefigurative art education. Art Education Research Institute 2024 Symposium. University of Cambridge, Art Education Research Institute. (2024)
Stories from a special issue of Studies in Art Education on antiracist strategies and interventions. National Art Education Association Annual Convention. National Art Education Association. (2024)
Teaching critical disability art as embodied form. National Art Education Association Annual Convention. National Art Education Association. (2024)
The pedagogical aesthetics of Mel Baggs and Sonia Boué.. Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium. University of the Arts, Helsinki. (2024)
Grants & Contracts
Faculty Development Funding. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2025)
Day Camp for Writers 2024: Three Days for Those with Child Care Responsibilities. Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Illinois State University. (2024)
GTC Grant. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2024)
Instructional Innovation Grant. Center for Integrated Professional Development. Illinois State University. (2024)
Instructional Innovation Grant. Center for Integrated Professional Development. Illinois State University. (2024)
