Carolina Blatt

Carolina Blatt

Carolina Blatt
Instructor, Program Coordinator Art Education

Carolina Blatt
Art

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Biography

Ph.D. in Art (Art Education). University of Georgia 
M.A. in Art History. Savannah College of Art and Design 
B.A. from Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania 
 
 
Dr. Carolina Blatt is an art educator, arts administrator and scholar who seeks to catalyze the arts within and beyond the classroom. Her inquiry into social, affective and embodied cognition fuels her dedication to participatory artmaking. Often community-driven and socially engaged in nature, large-scale collaborative projects that expand our notions of care and wonder are the hallmark of her work. She was formerly the Program Director and Professor of Art & Design Education at the University of the Arts, the Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Art Education at The College of New Jersey, and an Associate Professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her research has been presented nationally and internationally and published in a range of scholarly journals, including Studies in Art Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Journal for Learning Through the Arts, Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and International Journal of Education & the Arts, as well as popular press, including CNN.com. She received the Higher Education Award from the Art Educators of New Jersey in 2021 and is a member of the National Art Education Association’s 2022 cohort of School for Art Leaders.
 

Select Publications 

Blatt-Gross, C. (in press). From objects to relationships: Reviving connectivity through collaborative artmaking. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 44.
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2024). Revitalizing Art + Design Education through expanded notions of Community-Based Art Education. Art Education, 17(3), 42-47. 10.1080/00043125.2024.2322419
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2023). Short-and long-term outcomes of Community-Based Art Education among students in higher education. Education Sciences, 13(2), 166.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/2/166
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2022). Teaching notes: Community engagement as pedagogy. American Journal of Arts Management, 10.    https://www.artsmanagementjournal.com/resources/October_2022/AJAM%20Teaching%20Note%20by%20Carolina%20Blatt-Gross%20September%202022.pdf
 
Madden, L., Blatt-Gross, C., Ammentorp, L., Stanton, N. & Kneis, D. (2022). From Science in the Art gallery to Art in the Science classroom:  Using Arts-integrated professional development to enhance environmental education, Journal of College Science Teaching, 51(6). https://www.nsta.org/journal-college-science-teaching/journal-college-science-teaching-julyaugust-2022/science-art
 
Eddy, M., Blatt-Gross, C., Gohr, A., Halverson, E., Humphreys, K., Smolin, L., & Edgar, S. N..(2020). Local-level Implementation of Social Emotional Learning in Arts Education: Moving the Heart Through the Arts. Arts Education Policy Review.
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2019). Making content relevant (or not): Exploring the outcomes of a project-based curriculum in Art Appreciation. The Journal of Learning Through the Arts, 15(1).
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2018). Participatory Art as Pedagogy for Contextualized Learning, in I. Sertić (Ed.), Participatory Art for Invisible Communities. Zagreb, Croatia: Omnimedia.
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2017). Connecting the past and the present: Using our deep history of learning through community art to inform contemporary student engagement, in L. N. Hersey & B. Bobick (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement Through Community Art, (pp. 168-192). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.*
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2016). Creating community from the inside out: A concentric perspective on collective artmaking, Arts Education Policy Review, 118(1), 51-59.
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2015). Review of Moving Ideas:  Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools by Mira-Lisa Katz. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 11 (1). Retrieved from http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Review-of-Moving-Ideas.pdf 
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2014). Why do we make students sit still in class? CNN.com. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/30/living/no-sitting-still-movement-schools/
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2013). Toward meaningful education: Investigating artful behavior as a human proclivity in the classroom. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 14(7). Retrieved from http://www.ijea.org/v14n7/v14n7.pdf 
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2011). Understanding artful behavior as a human proclivity: Clues from the pre-kindergarten classroom. The Journal of Learning Through the Arts, 7(1), 1-21. Retrieved from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4pm02938 
 
Blatt-Gross, C. (2010). Casting the conceptual net: Cognitive possibilities for embracing the social and emotional richness of art education. Studies in Art Education, 51(4), 353-367.