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
204.001Arts For Elementary Schools: Visual Art
403.001Curriculum In Art Education
498.001Internship In Art
212.001Teaching In The Digital Art Studio
498.001Internship In Art
307.001Art For Diverse Populations
208.001Arts For Early Childhood: Visual Art
204.002Arts For Elementary Schools: Visual Art
204.004Arts For Elementary Schools: Visual Art
498.001Internship In Art
212.001Teaching In The Digital Art Studio
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.
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. Art evading confinement: Abolition as Universal Design. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 40.1 (2023): 32-55.
Stabler, B. Stoic indulgence, gratuitous restraint: White feelings and campus art.. Studies in Art Education 64.2 (2023): 198-218.
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.
Stabler, A., & Waits, M. Introduction to the special issue. Albert Stabler, Mira Waits (EDs), Body Cam: The Visual Regimes of Policing (special journal issue). Visual Arts Research 47.2 (2022): 16.
Stabler, B., & Fischer, M. “There’s really almost nobody there who’s trying to make sense of it” (interview with Marc Fischer). Albert Stabler, Mira Rai Waits (EDs), Body Cam: Visual Regimes of Policing. Visual Arts Research 48.1 (2022): 12.
Presentations
Abolitionism as Universal Design. National Art Education Association 2023 Annual Convention. National Art Education Association. (2023)
Beyond the Paperwork: A Discussion on How to Better Assist Students with Disabilities in the Creative Classroom. 2023 UCDA Design Education Summit. UCDA. (2023)
Disability disclosure in academia: risks and benefits. Art Education Research Institute 2023 Symposium. Art Education Research Institute. (2023)
Panics and Pandemics: The aesthetics of resisting American eliminationism. Art Education Research Institute 2023 Symposium. Art Education Research Institute. (2023)
“Press charges:” Art class, white feelings, and the school-to-prison pipeline. National Art Education Association 2023 Annual Convention. National Art Education Association. (2023)
The aesthetics of refusal: From Dada to disability conceptualism. 2023 SECAC Annual Conference. SECAC. (2023)
Art as pedagogy as strategy: the critical potential of conceptualism in art education.. AERI Symposium. Art Education Research Institute. (2022)
Blind speech and Deaf text: The deconstructed disability art of Christine Sun Kim and Andy Slater. 110th CAA Annual Conference. College Art Association. (2022)
Culturally unresponsive: reversing roles in institutionalized antiracism. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. (2022)
Curating the Institutional Model. SDS@OSU Conference. Society for Disability Studies. (2022)
Grants & Contracts
Deans Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Art. Illinois State University. (2023)
Faculty Development Award. Wonsook Kim School of Art. Illinois State University. (2023)
Faculty Instructor Civic Engagement Learning Grant. Center for Civic Engagement. Illinois State University. (2023)
Instructional Innovation Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2023)
Melanie Buffington START Grant. Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education, National Art Education Association. Private. (2023)
