Title
Assistant Professor of Art +DesignEducation
Master of Fine Arts, University of North Carolina Chapel HillBachelor of Fine Arts, Columbus College of Art and Design
Biography
Kathleen Rieder has been a teaching faculty member in the Department of Art + Design since 1989. Her emphasis is in Design Studies.Kathleen Rieder has taught drawing, painting, color theory, mixed media, 2D Design and 3D Design, and the First Year Experience. She has taught a seminar in Contemporary Issues in Art + Design for juniors majoring in Art + Design for the past 13 years.
In addition to her teaching, she has actively exhibited her art. She has been selected three times to exhibit in the NC Artists Exhibition at the NC Museum of Art. In the past twelve years she has exhibited at the Hanes Art Center at UNC Chapel Hill; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro; Meredith College; NC State College of Design; the Louise Wells Cameron Museum in Wilmington; and more recently at the Caldwell County Arts Council and the Mahler Gallery in Raleigh.
Kathleen remains committed to participation in the College's international programs. She served as a faculty advisor for the study abroad program in Ghana, West Africa, in 1999, and again in the summer of 2007. Summer 2005 she taught a painting studio at the Prague Institute.
Kathleen's takes the following approach to teaching:
"As I plan my course activities, I work to assure that there are opportunities to connect the learning objectives of my course with other disciplines within the College. Often this is accomplished by collaborations with other faculty. Beyond the context of the College, I believe that it is important to ground learning in the social and cultural contexts of our community and of the students and myself. Valuing questions and assisting students to differentiate between fact, bias, informed opinion and assumption helps the students to more clearly understand a problem, issue or concept within its related contexts. As a teacher I must be aware of my own history and culture. I assist my students to understand the role of memory, ritual, ceremony and place in their perceptions."
