Courtnie Wolfgang

Courtnie Wolfgang’s research and practice focus on the intersections of poststructural, feminist and queer theories with critical and radical pedagogies in and through art and design. Since the start of her career in art education in 2001, she has taught high school visual art in public schools, conducted community art education workshops and arts-based workshops with incarcerated juveniles and adults, developed curricular and pedagogical workshops for community teaching artists, and since 2011 has been a faculty member in higher education working with future artist educators. She joined RISD TLAD in 2022. 

Her work has been published in Visual Arts Research (including guest-editing an issue on Queering Art Education), The Journal of Art Education, Studies in Art Education, the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, The Journal of Prison Education and Re-entry and the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, among others. Her artistic practice includes monotype and Risograph printing, zine making/collaborative small publications and garment making and textiles. 

The majority of her life and career has been spent in the deep south of the United States, which fundamentally shaped her perspectives on equity and justice in arts and education. She earned her BFA in photography and MA in art education at the University of Georgia and a PhD in art and visual culture education at The Ohio State University.