Carissa DiCindio

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Bobick, B., & DiCindio, C. M. (2021). Engaging communities through civic engagement in art museums. IGI Global.

Chapters

• Rasmussen, B., & DiCindio, C. M. (2025). Gathering online: A graduate collaborative project during COVID-19. In Museum academics and professionals on challenges and opportunities in the post-COVID world..
• Orr, H., & DiCindio, C. M. (2023). Reflecting on opportunities for deeper conversation in an art museum education program. In Teaching art with dialogue: Critical conversations in art education.
• Rasmussen, B., & DiCindio, C. M. (2023). Gathering together: New pedagogical frameworks for leading and belonging. In A new role for museum education: Purpose, approach, and mindset.
• Black, R., & DiCindio, C. M. (2021). Student docent curricula as socially engaged art history.. In Socially engaged art history and beyond: Alternative approaches to the theory and practice of art history.
• Burke, E., Orr, H., & DiCindio, C. M. (2021). Stay Gold: An intergenerational LGBTQIA+ Arts Program. In Engaging communities through civic engagement in art museums.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2020). Jumping in: Working with university students to develop possibilities in university art museums through guided tours. In Illuminations of social imagination: Public art, community engagement, and Visions beyond 2020. Dio Press, Inc.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2018). Local Roots: Bridging Southern craft and museum audiences through materials and engagement. In Makers, crafters, educators: Working for cultural change(pp xx). London: Routledge Taylor & Francis.

Journals/Publications

• Shirai, Y., & DiCindio, C. M. (2022). Leading the grief conversation through a process of crafting a museum exhibition: Artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities and university students. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 11(3), 30-60.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2020). Driven by Curiosity: Creating Opportunities for Exploration in Art Museums. Art Education, 73(2).
• DiCindio, C. M. (2018). The Past in the Present: The Relevancy of the History of Museum Education Today. Journal of Museum Education.
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  Introduction as guest editor of this journal.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2019). Self-taught art in a museum: Material investigations create surprises. Trends, The Journal of the Texas Art Education Association, 52-55.
• DiCindio, C. M., & Burke, E. (2019). Staying gold: How a group of university students created intergenerational connections through art museum programming. The International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education, 2, 59-68.
• DiCindio, C. M., & Steinmann, C. (2019). The influence of the Works Progress Administration on museums and museum education. Journal of Museum Education, 44(4), 354-367.
• Dicindio, C., & Bobick, B. (2012). Advocacy for Art Education: Beyond Tee-Shirts and Bumper Stickers.. Art Education, 65(2), 20-23. doi:10.1080/00043125.2012.11519164
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  (2012). Advocacy for Art Education: Beyond Tee-Shirts and Bumper Stickers. Art Education: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 20-23.

Presentations

• Kiser, L. H., Newton, T., Brito, D., Kraehe, A. M., & DiCindio, C. M. (2025, October).

  Visualizing Resilience: Photovoice as a Transdisciplinary Bridge Between Healthcare, Art, and Border Communities.

  . a2ru Conference.. Madison WI.
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  This session shares a transdisciplinary collaboration between universities in the U.S. and Mexico using PhotoVoice methodology to document and reflect upon health experiences across border communities. Nursing students captured visual narratives revealing how care practices, consciousness of systemic challenges, and community structures contribute to health resilience. Art students designed exhibition frameworks that invited broader public engagement with these themes. The project merges healthcare perspectives with artistic inquiry to create a multidimensional understanding of health factors across cultural contexts, highlighting both structural challenges and community strengths. Presenters will discuss approaches to community-centered exhibitions and implications for health education, arts engagement, and cross-institutional collaboration.
• DiCindio, C. M., Burke, E., & Orr, H. (2020, March). Intergenerational Learning in an Art Museum through the Voices of LGBTQIA+ Youth and Elders. National Art Education Association National Convention. Minneapolis, MN: NAEA.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2020, February 18). Creating Openings for Authentic Museum-Community Collaborations in University Classrooms. University of Florida’s Museums Challenge Symposium. University of Florida.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2020, February 22). Student-Driven Community Partnerships through University Art Museum Education Courses. Art + Education for Social Justice Symposium. Athens, GA: University of Georgia and Florida State University.
• DiCindio, C. M., Kletchka, D., Evans, L., Hubard, O., Love, A. R., & Villeneuve, P. (2020, March). Shaping the Field: Scholarship and Research in University Art Museum Education Programs. National Art Education Association National Convention. Minneapolis, MN: National Art Education Association.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2019, June). Changing the Conversation: University Students as Art Museum Docents. Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. Minneapolis, MN.
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  Facilitating and participating in panel discussion on university student docents with Rebecka A. Black, Visual Arts & Community Programs Coordinator, Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, Kathryn Medill, Audience Experience Coordinator for the ASU Art Museum, and Sage Kincaid, Associate Curator of Education, Georgia Museum of Art
• DiCindio, C. M. (2019, March). Makers, Crafters, Educators. National Art Education Association Conference.
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  Serving as moderator for breakout discussion in session led by Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2019, May). Museum Education and Community Collaboration through Stay Gold: An Intergenerational Arts Program for the LGBTQIA+ Community. Alliance of American Museums. New Orleans, LA.
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  Presenting on program for LGBTQI youth and elders with Eli Burke, doctoral student in art and visual culture education
• DiCindio, C. M., & Ahlschwede, W. (2019, October 7). Crafting a Mutually Beneficial Museum-University Collaboration. Western Museums Conference. Boise Idaho.
• DiCindio, C. M., & Shirai, Y. (2019, June). Creating an Art Exhibition Through the Shared Experiences of Grief: Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and University Students. the annual meetings of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. St. Paul, MN.: the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• DiCindio, C. M., & Shirai, Y. (2019, September). Creating an Art Exhibition through Shared Experiences of Grief Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and University Students. Fall Museum Lecture Series 2019. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona, Museum of Art.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2018, March). University Professor Wanted: The Hiring Process in Higher Education. National Art Education Association.
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  Presented with Bryna Bobick, associate professor, art education, University of Memphis
• DiCindio, C. M. (2017, May). Gallery Talk: Angels from Heaven and Earth by Purvis Young. Gallery Talk. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.
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  Gave a gallery talk focusing on a work of art by self-taught artist Purvis Young at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.
• DiCindio, C. M. (2017, May). Gallery Talk: Patchwork/Terry by Sam Gilliam. Gallery Talk. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.
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  Gave a gallery talk focusing on an abstract work of art by Sam Gilliam at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.
• DiCindio, C. M., & Miller, T. (2017, January). Museum Inside Out: Bringing Behind-the-Scenes to the Public. Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries Annual Conference. Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia.

Others

• DiCindio, C. M. (2017, January). Exhibition Essay: Appreciation: Radcliffe Bailey's 7 Steps. Expanding tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection.
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  Essay in exhibition catalogue, published by the Georgia Museum of Art, edited by Shawnya Harris