Bert Stabler
Assistant Professor of Art Education
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 203b
Office Hours
By appointment.
Office Phone
Email
Website
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected 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
ART 307.001 Art For Diverse Populations
ART 204.001 Arts Integration in Early Childhood and Elementary Education: Visual Arts focus
ART 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
ART 451.001 Special 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.
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
College of Fine Arts Outstanding Researcher Award
ISU Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2025
Grants and Contracts
Conceptual Art + Teaching Grant
Bert Stabler.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. December 1 2025 - November 30 2026
Faculty Development Funding
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. March 20 2025 - March 23 2025
Faculty Development Grant
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. October 1 2025 - October 5 2025
Faculty/Staff Research and Travel Funds
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. October 15 2025 - October 18 2025
Mills Grant
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. October 23 2025 - October 25 2025
Day Camp for Writers 2024: Three Days for Those with Child Care Responsibilities
Bert Stabler.
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. July 7 2024 - July 9 2024
GTC Grant
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. December 2024 - May 2025
Instructional Innovation Grant
Bert Stabler.
Center for Integrated Professional Development. March 2024 - April 2024
Instructional Innovation Grant
Bert Stabler.
Center for Integrated Professional Development. February 2024 - April 2024
Deans Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Art. October 2023 - October 2023
Faculty Development Award
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. October 2023 - 2023
Faculty Instructor Civic Engagement Learning Grant
Bert Stabler.
Center for Civic Engagement. March 2023 - April 2023
Instructional Innovation Grant
Bert Stabler.
Illinois State University. September 2023 - December 2023
Melanie Buffington START Grant
Bert Stabler.
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education, National Art Education Association. August 2023 - May 2024
University Teaching Grant
Bert Stabler.
Illinois State University. February 2023 - May 2023
Deans Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. October 2022 - October 2022
Faculty Instructor Civic Engagement Learning Grant
Bert Stabler.
Office of Civic Engagement. January 2022 - April 2022
GTC Faculty Development Grant
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. February 12 2022 - February 20 2022
Gregor Fund
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. March 2022 - April 2022
School of Art Faculty Development Award
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim School of Art. October 2022 - October 2022
University Research Grant
Bert Stabler.
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. July 2022 - June 2023
University Teaching Grant
Bert Stabler.
Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. August 15 2022 - December 15 2022
Harold K. Sage Fund Grant
Albert Stabler.
Office of the Provost. August 16 2021 - December 1 2021
Second Round-FY21 Dean’s Faculty Professional Development Award Program
Albert Stabler.
Dean's Office, Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. February 5 2021 - June 30 2021
Teaching Innovation Award
Albert Stabler.
ISU Center for Teaching and Learning Technology. July 1 2021 - December 1 2021
Performances and Exhibits
Hello... Lee (Non-Binary Worm)
Bert Stabler, Mo Fizdale.
September 2022 - November 2022
Bert Stabler, Mo Fizdale.
September 2022 - November 2022
Untitled
Bert Stabler, Mo Fizdale.
January 2022 - February 2022
Bert Stabler, Mo Fizdale.
January 2022 - February 2022
Book Review
BOOK REVIEW: ART EDUCATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE PLANET: EMBRACING ECOPEDAGOGY IN K-12 CLASSROOMS, JOY BERTLING (2023)
Bert Stabler.
(2025), 21, 171-173, https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00188_5, International Journal of Education Through Art
Review of Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus
Matthew Day Himley, Bert Stabler.
(2025), 52, 87-92, https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2025.52.2.87, No, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
Conference Proceeding
False Flag
Bert Stabler.
Amsterdam University of the Arts, 235-241, (2023)
Presentations
Urban environmental public art interventions with young people
Bert Stabler.
International Journal of Art and Design Education 2025 Conference, Online, November, 2025
Art, children, and the fascist politics of conspiracy
Bert Stabler.
2025 Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October, 2025
ARTS, JOY, AND RESISTANCE DURING IDEOLOGICAL RETRENCHMENT
Bert Stabler, Karyn Sandlos, Jamie Buffington Adams, Sandra Vanderbilt, Kelly P. Vaughan.
2025 Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October, 2025
Reading Deviant Matter with/in educational research
Bert Stabler, Tristan G. Gleason, Paul Eaton.
2025 Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October, 2025
Disabled performance, crip time, and assessment as endurance
Bert Stabler.
Art Education Research Institute Annual Symposium, State College, PA, October, 2025
Opening panel: Research clusters & roundtable discussion
Bert Stabler, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Kimberly Powell, Lillian Lewis, Fiona Blakie.
Art Education Research Institute Annual Symposium, State College, PA, October, 2025
No rubrics: Anti-ableist art assessment
Bert Stabler.
SECAC Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October, 2025
Making games with mundane tech: The Microsoft Office and Google Workspace edition
Bert Stabler, Hong-An Wu.
National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Louisville, KY (attended online due to illness), March, 2025
No rubrics: Anti-ableist art assessment
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Louisville, KY (unable to attend), March, 2025
The pedagogical aesthetics of Mel Baggs and Sonia Boué.
Bert Stabler.
Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium, Online, November 15, 2024
Building belonging through equity: Simple steps to make your lessons culturally responsive and relevant using contemporary artists
Bert Stabler, Tanya Marie Scott, Nick Hostert, Libby McArthur, Aaron Cummins.
Illinois Art Education Association Annual Conference, Normal, IL, October 19, 2024
Let the artists be your guide: Culturally responsive lesson /activity share
Bert Stabler, Tanya Marie Scott, Aaron Cummins, Libby McArthur, Deanna Sortino.
Illinois Art Education Association Annual Conference, Normal, IL, October 19, 2024
Elevating underrepresented arts educators: Empowering voices & diversifying perspectives
Bert Stabler, Nick Hostert, Frederick Royster, Shivani Bhalla, Moksha Khanna.
Illinonis Art Education Association Annual Conference, Normal IL, October 18, 2024
“Queerness is in the horizon”: Performance art as prefigurative art education
Bert Stabler.
Art Education Research Institute 2024 Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 20, 2024
Black disabled women artists and the improvisation of confinement
Bert Stabler.
American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 14, 2024
Teaching critical disability art as embodied form
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN, April 6, 2024
Art about school: Creative research on the institution
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN, April 5, 2024
Stories from a special issue of Studies in Art Education on antiracist strategies and interventions
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN, April 5, 2024
Guerrilla assemblage in the context of urban education
Bert Stabler.
College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, February 16, 2024
The aesthetics of refusal: From Dada to disability conceptualism
Bert Stabler.
2023 SECAC Annual Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October, 2023
Disability disclosure in academia: risks and benefits
Bert Stabler, Alice Wexler, Timothy Smith, JT Eisenhauer Richardson, Shivani Bhalla.
Art Education Research Institute 2023 Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, October, 2023
Panics and Pandemics: The aesthetics of resisting American eliminationism
Bert Stabler.
Art Education Research Institute 2023 Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, October, 2023
Beyond the Paperwork: A Discussion on How to Better Assist Students with Disabilities in the Creative Classroom
Katie Krcmarik, Bert Stabler, Natalee Tyree, Donald Kent Kerr, Johnathon Strube.
2023 UCDA Design Education Summit, Bowling Green, OH, May 22, 2023
Abolitionism as Universal Design
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association 2023 Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2023
“Press charges:” Art class, white feelings, and the school-to-prison pipeline
Bert Stabler.
National Art Education Association 2023 Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, April, 2023