about
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Lori Kent was born in New Orleans and shaped by the culturally rich American south. Fortunate to work first as a doctoral student (Ed. D., Columbia University, 2001) then as artist and professor, she has been based in New York City for sixteen years. Dr. Kent works as a writer, professor and consultant.
Since 2007, she has been on the editorial review board of the art journal FATE-in-Review. Publications include critical reviews in NY Arts and Ceramic Review UK and articles in The International Journal of Art & Design Education, Art Education, FATE-in-Review, ISEA Newsletter, and the upcoming book: Practice Theory.
Summer 2011, Dr. Kent was an NEH Fellow at Stanford University’s Department of Comparative Literature. She received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow (2009-10). As a visual artist, she has received two Puffin Foundation awards and Pollock-Krasner grant, and Gallo award (UMass Boston), a Jerome Fellowship at the Anderson Center, a studio residency at both the Harvey Foundation, Venice, and Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, New York.
Her artwork is focused on photography and community-based art and social justice. Research interests span the intersections of art, creativity, and the cultures of digital and networked cultures.
upcoming-events
2012
February 11, 2012: College Art Association (CAA) National Conference: Paper “Exercises in Visual Imagination: Fiction as Departure Point in the Foundations Studio”
March 3, 2012: NAEA National Conference, paper: “Digital Stewardship: Navigating Web Cultures”
March 11, 2012: SXSW Interactive Conference 2012. Panel Chair, “The New Black: How Digital Education is Everything.”
2011
April 1, 2o11: Panel Chair, “Excavating Kindness, Caring and Cooperation in the Foundations Studio” at FATE’s Biennial National Conference.
July 23, 2011: Workshop, “How the Past Informs the Digital Future” at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco.
2010
March 5, 2010: Lori Kent will be speaking at TEDxWarsaw
March 22, 23, 2010: Workshop at Hyper Island , Stockholm and Karlskrona, Sweden
April 7, 2010: Lori Kent will present a paper at the University of Lodz’s Theory that Matters conference
April 26, 2010: Lecture at TAIK, Alto University of Art and Design, Helsinki
publications
Publications, Abstracts, Videos, and Conference Papers:
• Emerging Resistance: New Orleans Psychogeography as Constructed through Memory-based Visual Arts
• The Artist’s Conversation:Approaches to a Postmodern Context
• Enlivening the Old with the New: 21st-Century Thinking Applied to 16th-Century Art Worlds
• 100 Interesting Things: A Foundations-level Search for Content and Meaning (p.16)
