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Carissa Maria DiCindio

  • Associate Professor, Art
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Associate Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
Contact
  • (520) 621-7570
  • Art Building & Art Museum, Rm. 110
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • cdicindio@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Art Education
    • University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
    • An Examination of the Experiences of University Students in Their University Art Museum through Dialogue and Peer Learning
  • M.A. Art History
    • University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States
    • Fra Angelico's Tempio Lamentation: A Consideration of Its Function and Meaning
  • B.F.A. Studio Art: Painting
    • Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States

Work Experience

  • Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia (2003 - 2017)

Awards

  • Charles and Irene Putnam Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona
    • College of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Fall 2022
  • Education Program of the Year
    • Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Winter 2017

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Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Clq:Art+Visual Cult Ed
    ARE 695A (Fall 2025)
  • Special Topics in Fine Arts
    HNRS 195K (Fall 2025)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Fall 2025)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Independent Study
    ARE 499 (Summer I 2025)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Honors Thesis
    HNRS 498H (Spring 2025)
  • Independent Study
    AIAR 699 (Spring 2025)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Spring 2025)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Spring 2025)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Spring 2025)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Spring 2025)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2025)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2025)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2024)
  • Clq:Art+Visual Cult Ed
    ARE 695A (Fall 2024)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Honors Thesis
    HNRS 498H (Fall 2024)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 499 (Fall 2024)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Fall 2024)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2024)
  • Isu+Rcnt Rsrch Art+Vis
    ARE 633 (Fall 2024)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2024)
  • Research
    ARE 900 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Summer I 2024)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Summer I 2024)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Summer I 2024)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2024)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Spring 2024)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Fall 2023)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Fall 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Fall 2023)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2023)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Fall 2023)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Summer I 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Summer I 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Summer I 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Summer I 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Summer I 2023)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2023)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    AIAR 699 (Spring 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Spring 2023)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Spring 2023)
  • Special Topics in Fine Arts
    HNRS 195K (Spring 2023)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Spring 2023)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2023)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2023)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2022)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Fall 2022)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Fall 2022)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Fall 2022)
  • Isus Art Educ Thry+Prac
    ARE 596A (Fall 2022)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Fall 2022)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2022)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Summer I 2022)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2022)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2022)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Spring 2022)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Spring 2022)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Spring 2022)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Spring 2022)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2022)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2022)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2021)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2021)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Fall 2021)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Fall 2021)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Fall 2021)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2021)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Fall 2021)
  • Isu+Rcnt Rsrch Art+Vis
    ARE 633 (Fall 2021)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2021)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Summer I 2021)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2021)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Spring 2021)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Spring 2021)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Spring 2021)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Spring 2021)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2021)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2021)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Fall 2020)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 399 (Fall 2020)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 699 (Fall 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Fall 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Fall 2020)
  • Isu+Rcnt Rsrch Art+Vis
    ARE 633 (Fall 2020)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Fall 2020)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Independent Study
    ARE 699 (Summer I 2020)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2020)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Spring 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Spring 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Spring 2020)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Spring 2020)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2020)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2020)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2019)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Honors Thesis
    ARE 498H (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 399 (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 499 (Fall 2019)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Fall 2019)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2019)
  • Internship
    ARE 693 (Fall 2019)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Fall 2019)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2019)
  • Thesis
    ARE 910 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2019)
  • Dissertation
    ARE 920 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 699 (Spring 2019)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Spring 2019)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Spring 2019)
  • Master's Report
    ARE 909 (Spring 2019)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2019)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2019)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Winter 2018)
  • Comm, Culture+Art Educ
    ARE 520 (Fall 2018)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 599 (Fall 2018)
  • Independent Study
    ARE 699 (Fall 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Fall 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2018)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Summer I 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 493 (Summer I 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Summer I 2018)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Summer I 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 393 (Spring 2018)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 425 (Spring 2018)
  • Thry+Pract/Museum Art Ed
    ARE 525 (Spring 2018)
  • Internship
    ARE 593 (Fall 2017)
  • Isu+Rcnt Rsrch Art+Vis
    ARE 633 (Fall 2017)
  • Museums as Cultural & Communit
    ART 160D3 (Fall 2017)

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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.
    More info
    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
    More info
    (2012). Advocacy for Art Education: Beyond Tee-Shirts and Bumper Stickers. Art Education: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 20-23.

Presentations

  • 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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    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.
    More info
    Essay in exhibition catalogue, published by the Georgia Museum of Art, edited by Shawnya Harris

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