Department of Art members Hikmet Loe (Visiting Assistant Professor), Alina Lindquist (MFA 2028), and Andre Polidoro (BA Art History and BA Computer Science 2025) presented at the . Their session, "Beyond Books: Open Education Brings Art History to Life," shared teaching practices and student engagement in the course Art 478/678 "Great Basin Art and Artifacts." Loe discussed how open pedagogical practice is ideal to teach place and creative practices, Lindquist talked about the advantages of open education as a studio artist and a graduate student expanding scholarly content, and Polidoro explained how open pedagogy presents undergraduates a way to 鈥渃onnect the dots鈥 as they discover the breadth and value that is brought to education by centering a region.
