Patty Bode, patty.bode@tufts.edu
Director of Art Education for Tufts University in affiliation with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Patty holds an Ed.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a concentration in Language, Literacy and Culture. She was named 2010 Art Educator of the Year for Higher Education of the Eastern USA Region by the National Art Education Association as well as Massachusetts 2010 Art Educator of the Year for Higher Education by the Massachusetts Art Education Association. Her research interests include: the arts in urban education, the role of visual culture in art teacher preparation, and the intersection of postmodernism and multiculturalism in art education. She has published and lectured on critical art pedagogy based in public schools, re-theorizing identity and curriculum, and redefining multicultural education. Years of experience as an activist public school art teacher and teacher educator inform Patty Bode's art making, research and teaching. Patty is the recipient of National Multicultural Educator Award of 2005 from National Association for Multicultural Education for efforts in anti-racist curriculum reform in art education and bridging theory and practice in multicultural education. She delivered keynote addresses at the 2006 conference of the Massachusetts Art Education Association, the 2007 conference of the National Association for Multicultural Education (co-delivered, with Sonia Nieto), the 2008 conference of Institute for Learning Partnership at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and the 2009 Boston Public Schools Professional Development Arts Institute. In October, 2011 Patty delivered a keynote address at the annual conference of the PAEA-Pennsylvania Art Education Association in Gettysburg, PA titled "Rethinking Dedication to Patriotism in Art Education.

More about Patty Bode's work as an A/R/Tographer - Artist/Researcher/Teacher

• Download Patty's CV
• Patty's Teaching Web Site
• Arts advocacy video for Oil and Staff Foundation
• Tufts-SMFA Art Education Program
• CSTAE Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education of NAEA (Coordinator: 2011-2013)
• NAME: National Association for Multicultural Education: Region One Director
• Artist-Educator with: SAP: Senegal-America Project (December 2011-January 2012)
• Artist-Educator for: Unlocking the Light: Integrating the Arts into Juvenile Justice Education
• Keynote Address at University of Wisconsin Green Bay in 2008
• Trip to Ecuador
• Artists in Education PODCAST
• Academic Debate: Multiculturalism in Higher Education
  

Publications

Nieto, S. & Bode, P. (2012 / release date April 2011). Affirming Diversity : The Sociopolitical context of multicultural education, 6^th ed. Boston: Pearson.

Bode, P., Fenner D. & El Halwagy, B. (2011). Incarcerated Youth and Arts Education: Unlocking the Light through youth arts and teacher development. In M. S. Hanley, T. Barone & G. Noblit, (Eds.) A Way Out of No Way: The Arts as Social Justice in Education. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Bode, P. (2010). Imagining Things Being Otherwise. In R. Lake, (Ed.) Dear Maxine Letters: From the Unfinished Conversation with Maxine Greene (pp. 6-9). New York: Teachers College Press.

Bode, P., Elton, N. & Shuman, R. (2010). Ask and Listen with High Expectations. In M. Cain Fehr and D. E. Fehr (Eds). Teach Boldly! Letters to Teachers about Contemporary Issues in Education (pp. 29-44). New York: Peter Lang.

Nieto, S. & Bode, P. (2009). School Reform and Student Learning: A Multicultural Perspective. In J. A Banks & C. A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 7th ed. Hoboken: Wiley & Sons.

Bode, P. (2009). The Circulatory System of Oil Contamination, Visual Culture, and Amazon Indigenous Life. In A. Arnold, A. Kuo, E. Delacruz, and M. Parsons (Eds.). Globalization, Art, and Education. Reston, VA: NAEA.

Bode, P., Elton, N. & Shuman, R. (2009). Asking and Listening with High Expectations. In D. Fehr and M. Cain Fehr (Eds). Teaching Boldly! New York: Peter Lang.

Bode, P. (2008). Multicultural Education: Histories and Definitions. In Psychology of Learning Research Handbook. Farmington Hills: Thomson Learning/Cengage.

Bode, P. (2008). Radicalizing the Reading of the World Through Art. In S. Nieto Dear Paulo: Letters from those who dare teach. Boulder: Paradigm.

Nieto, S. & Bode, P. (2008). Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical context of multicultural education, 5th ed. Boston/NY: Allyn & Bacon/Longman.

Nieto, S., Bode, P., Kang, E. & Raible, J. (2008). Identity, Community and Diversity: Retheorizing multicultural curriculum for the postmodern era. In F. M. Connelly, M. F. He & J. Phillion (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bode, P. (2005). Waiting tables and juggling motherhood: Taking the road less traveled. In S. Nieto (Ed.), Why We Teach (pp. 49-57). New York: Teachers College Press.

Bode, P. & Schmidt, S. (2004). Painting a picture of the Movement: from Aaron Douglas to the Memphis sanitation workers' strike. In A. Murray, D. Menkart, and J. View (Eds.), Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (pp. 410-416). Washington, DC. PPRC/Teaching for Change. Available online >>

Bode, P. (2003). Puerto Rican arts in social context. In S. Nieto, What Keeps Teachers Going? (pp. 82-85). New York: Teachers College Press.

Bode, P. (2002, Fall). The Puerto Rican Vejigante: The Importance of teaching art in its social context. Rethinking Schools, 17 (1) 8-9. Available online >>

Bode, P. (2002, Spring). A Letter from Kaeli. Rethinking Schools, 16(3) 18. (Reprinted from S. Nieto (1999). The Light in their eyes: Creating multicultural learning communities). Available online >>

Conference Presentations

MAEA Massachusetts Art Education Association. Hyannis, MA. November 2011. Critical Curriculum Affirming Multiple Identities in the 21st Century.

NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. Chicago. November 2011. Imagining things being otherwise: Arts and criticality. Co-presenter with Vera Stenhouse and Kathy McDonough.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA. March 2011. Teachers on Teaching and Community: Creativity as Change in Urban Spaces. Clayton Funk, Patty Bode, Meaghan Brady-Nelson, Manisha Sharma, Justin Sutters.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA. March 2011. "Criticizing Critical Pedagogy: What Can It Contribute To Art Education Now?" Kerry Freedman, Dipti Desai, Patty Bode.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA. March 2011. SPEAK-OUT SESSION FACILITATOR. "Creatively Questioning: Social Theory and Social Imagination with Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education." Patty Bode, Clayton Funk, Olivia Gude, Kryssi Staikidis, Melanie Buffington, GE Washington, Kim Cosier.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA. March 2011. Issues Forum: Contemporary Art And Higher Education. Panelists: Melanie Buffington, Dipti Desai, Kathleen Keys, Patty Bode.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Seattle, WA. March 2011. "Unlocking the Light: Video Presentation of Artist Educators Collaborating with Incarcerated Youth and Educators." Co-presented with Derek Fenner.

Tufts University 24th University-Wide teaching conference: Really Fabulous Out-of-the-Box Practical Ways to enhance your teaching and student learning. Invited panelist: "Integrating Technology Engagement in the Syllabus." December 2010. Tufts University, Medford campus.

NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. Las Vegas, Nevada November 2010. "Multicultural Teaching Stories: Multicultural Teaching Stories: What can teachers, schools and teacher educators do?" Co-presented with Sonia Nieto. Special ticketed session. Invited.

Think Tank: 2010 and Beyond - New Directions in African American Art/Transformative Aesthetic Curriculum Design Issues Group, COMC Committee on Multiethnic Concerns of NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. November 2010. Invited panelist and moderator.

MAEA Massachusetts Art Education Association. Amherst, MA. November 2010. "Incarcerated Youth and Art Education." University of Massachusetts Amherst.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Everyday Antiracism in the Art Room: Engaging uncomfortable topics of Social Justice in Art Education."

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Incarcerated Youth and Integrated Arts Education: Social Justice, the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Teacher Development." Co-presented with Derek Fenner.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Museum/University Collaboration and Innovation: Teacher education partnering in the art museum setting." Co-presented with Robert Worstell.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Investigating Social Justice through Art and Theory: Questions, Practice, and Research." Facilitator of Talk-Back series Super Session panel. Panelists include: Flavia Bastos, Melanie Buffington, Juan Carlos Castro, Olivia Gude, Kryssi Staikidis, Kevin Tavin. Co-moderated with Clayton Funk.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. Globalization and Art Education: "Re-envisioning Art Education through Postcolonial, Intercultural, and Social Justice Frameworks: Globalizations’ Difficult Questions." Panelist on Super session with Karen Frostig, David Nyaberi, Rebecca Plummer Rohloff, and Wanda Knight. Moderated by Elizabeth Delacruz and Alice Arnold.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Art Education, Sexual Identity, and Social Justice." Panelist on Super Session with Olivia Gude, B. Stephen Carpenter. Moderated by Mindi Rhoades.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD. April 2010. "Committee on Multiethnic Concerns Curriculum Roundtable Digital Action Research Clearinghouse Initiative as a Tool for Achieving Social Justice."

NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. Denver, CO. "Committing to Social Change through Explicit Talk about Race in the PK-16+ Classroom." November 2009.

NAME National Association for Multicultural Education. Denver, CO. "Re-Activating Action and Re-Affirming Diversity through Integrated Sociopolitical Curriculum." November 2009.

Boston Public Schools Leadership Conference. Interdisciplinary Planning: Arts in Education. Co-facilitated with Laura Davila-Lynch. Boston, MA. June 2009.

NAEA National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Multicultural Education Re-Activated: The Role of Visual Culture in Postmodern Patriotism."

NAEA National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Critical Race Theory, What’s Goin’ on: Explicit Talk about Race from the K-12 Art Room to Art Teacher Preparation."

NAEA National Art Education Association. Minneapolis, MN. April 2009. "Incarcerated Youth and Arts Education: Unlocking the Light to Excavate the School-to-Prison Pipeline through youth arts and teacher development." Co-presented with Derek Fenner.