Mariah Doren

In addition to serving as the director of academic programs in RISD’s Continuing Education division, Maria Doren teaches in the Teaching and Learning in Art and Design department. Her work is a mix of studio practice, writing and teaching, carefully woven and intermixed such that each endeavor feeds and supports the others. She has a studio practice based in photography that includes collage work combining printmaking, drawing and photographs. Her work was included in recent exhibitions at the Attleboro Arts Museum and The New Britain Museum of American Art, as well as in a solo show at Sala in West Stockbridge, MA. Doren’s writing centers on teaching. Upcoming projects include a book co-authored with Elissa Armstrong titled Can We Talk about the Critique? Reimagining the Tradition: More Inclusive, More Fulfilling and Maybe a Little More Fun (forthcoming from Intellect Press), and she recently published an article called Working Collaboratively—Teaching Collaboration in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. She earned a PhD in college teaching of art and design from Columbia University, an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and a BA in Growth & Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College.