Publications

Weida, C. L. 2024. “Feminist Arts Education Heroines: Maker Mermaids, Poet Princesses, Fiber Art Fairies, Weaving Witches, and Unschooling Unicorn”. sIn Willis, S, Shin, R & Richards, A, Eds. The Intersectionality of Critical Identities in Art Education. New York: INSEA.

Weida, C. L. (2020).  Zine objects and orientations in/as arts research: Documenting art teacher practices and identities through zine creation, collection, and criticism. Studies in Art Education. 61 (3). p. 267-281.

Weida, C. L. and Bradbury, C. (2020).  Magical aesthetics of unicorns in girlhood visual culture. Visual Culture & Gender, 15 (1). p. 44-55.

Weida, C. L. and Bradbury, C. (2020) The Unicorn as lifelong companion: Remixing inclusive, intergenerational art education journeys with the freedom of Froebel and wildness of Waldorf," International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education, 3(6)

Weida, C. L. , Adeniji-Neill, D. & Cambronero Varela, C.  (2020).  Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning from Maxine Greene. New York: Dio Press.

Weida, C. L. (2020).  “Women of Power and the Mothers Who Molded Them”: Matriarchal Mentorship and Symbols of Sisterhood inSupergirl. In Rayborn, T. and Wehler, M. (Eds). Girl of Steel. McFarland.

Weida, C. L., Bradbury, C. & Weida, J.  (2019).  Poetics of The Fairy Tale Princess: Products, Problems, & Possibilities. (“Poésie de la princesse des contes de fées: produits, problèmes et possibilités), Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues/RevueCanadienne de recherches et enjeux en éducation artistique. Vol. 46, No.2.

Weida, C. L. (2019).  Froebel Facebook, Mobile Montessori, Virtual Reality Reggio, and Web  Waldorf: Digital Resources, Art Education Philosophies, and Inclusive Teaching. In Garner, R. (Ed). Exploring Digital Technologies for Art-Based Special Education: Models and Methods for the Inclusive K-12 Classroom. Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group.

Weida, C. L. (2018).  Future fiber feminism and change through craft. In E. Garber, L. Hochtritt, & M. Sharma (Eds.), Makers, crafters, educators: Working for cultural change. New York, NY: Routledge.

Weida, C. L. and Bradbury, C.  (2018).  Tracing Treasure Troves and Traditions.  In Richards, A & Willis, S.  (Eds).   Global Consciousness Through the Arts: A Passport for Students and Teachers.  Dubuque, IA: Kendall & Hunt.  

Weida, C. L. & Bradbury, C.  (2018).  Sleeping Beauty Illustrated & Illuminated: Past, Present, and Future Visions Of/By Women.  In Lear, A. and Street, M.  Art and Music: Past, Present, and Future.  (pp. 85-100).  New York: Nova Science Publishing.

Weida, C. L.  (2018). From the Hellmouth to Hell’s Kitchen: Analyzing Aesthetics of Women Survivors and Spaces of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jessica Jones.  In Rayborn, T & Keyes, A (Eds).   Jessica Jones, Scarred Superhero:Essays on Gender, Trauma and Addiction in the Netflix Series.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland.   

Caracciolo, D. & Weida, C. L. (2017).  The Swing of the Pendulum: The Urgency of Arts Education for Healing, Learning, and Wholeness. Boston: Sense Publishers. 

Weida, C. L. (2017).  Mutts, Music, and Memory Books: Rebellious Remixes of The Hunger Games in Art Education Contexts.  In Manning, A (Ed).  Art and Design Education: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities.  New York: Nova Science Publishing.

Weida, C. L. (2016).  Claiming Creative Space: Bridging the Divide between Art Practice and Art Education. In Davis, Jessica H. (Eds.). Discourse and Disjuncture between the Arts and Higher Education. (pp. 143-165). New York, NY: Palgrave.

Weida, C. L. (2016).  Metaphors, Mementos, and Myths of Motherwork: A Visual Essay on    Motherhood in Art and Education. In Adeniji-Neill, D & Mungai, A. (Eds.). Written in     Her Own Voice: Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education. (pp. 155-178). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Weida, C. L. (2016). Glimpses of Guanajuato: Encounters and Expressions of Borders in Art Education.  In Manifold, M., Willis, S., & Zimmerman, E. (Eds), Culturally Sensitive Art Education in Global World: A Handbook for Teachers.  (pp. 103-109). Reston, VA:   National Art Education Association.

Bradbury, C.A., Edwards, K., Weida, C.L. et al.  (2016). Revisiting the South Station    Hoard.  Postmedieval.  7: 421.

Weida, C. L. (2016).  Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Leonor Fini: Feminist Lessons in Chimerism, Corporeality, Cuisine, and Craft. Journal of Visual Culture & Gender, 11, 42-51.   (peer-reviewed journal of Pennsylvania State University).

Weida, C. L. (2015). Frederick Froebel's Philosophies About Art and Creativity. In Bastos, F. & Zimmerman, E. (Eds.). Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education: Foundations, Pedagogies, and Contemporary

Weida, C. L., (Ed). (2014).  Crafting Creativity and Creating Craft: Craftivism, Art Education, and Contemporary Craft Culture. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Bradbury, C., Edwards, K., Lustig, D., Sickman, K. & Weida, C. L. (2014).  The South Station Hoard: Imagining, Creating and Empowering Violent Remains.  Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books

Weida, C. L.  (2014).  Portraiture, Pottery, and Pedagogy: Examining Portraiture Methodology in the Contexts of Ceramics and Teaching. In Buffington, M & McKay, S. (Eds.). Practice Theory: Seeing the Power of Art Teacher Researchers. (pp. 168-172). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Weida, C. L. (2014).  Teaching Artists and the Craft of Handmade Books.  Teaching ArtistJournal.  13(1). 5-13. (refereed, research publication of Columbia College Chicago, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis).

Weida, C. L.  (2014).  Black Mountain College Women on Clay, Craft, and Nature: Marguerite Wildenhain, Mary Caroline ‘M.C.’Richards, and Karen Karnes.  Black Mountain College Studies Journal.  6.  Summer.

Weida, C. L. (2013).  Guerrilla Girlhood Glitter Guild: Research Hidden Hoards of Tween Treasures. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 8(13), 7-20. 

Weida, C. L. (2013).  Feminist Zines: (Pre)Occupations of Gender,Politics, and D.I.Y. in a Digital Age. Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 33, 67-85. 

Weida, C. L. & Marsh, J. (2013). Soft and Sustainable Studio Work: Recycling Media, Representing Ecology, and Re-envisioning Craft With the International Fiber Collaborative. Journal of Art for Life. (5)1-26.

Weida, C. L. (2013).  Frederick Froebel’s philosophies of drawing: Play, representation and invention. Visual Inquiry: Teaching & Learning Art, 2, 43-54. 

Weida, C. L. (2012). “Soft Stuff”: Community, Identity, and Contemporary Craft in Education. In Campbell, L and Simmons, S. (Eds). The Heart of Art Education (pp. 141-8).  Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Weida, C. L.  (2012).  Counterculture, Craftsmanship, and Cyberspace Connectivity: Considerations of Contemporary Feminist Zines in/as/of Art Education  In Collingwood, S; Quintana, A; & Smith, C. (Ed.).  Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogy in Transition.  33-50.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

Weida, C. L. (2011).  Artistic Ambivalences in Clay: Portraits of Pottery, Ceramics, and Gender.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Weida, C. L. (2011).  Born from Books: Digital Spaces of Adolescent Art and Echoes of Artists' Books.  Media: Culture: Pedagogy.  15 (1).

Weida, C. L. (2011).  Wonder(ing) Women: Investigating Gender Politics and Art Education Within Gender.  Journal of Visual Culture and Gender. 6 (11), 7-16.  

Weida, C. L. (2011).  Revising/Revising Art and Home: (Be)Longing and Identity in Out-of-School Art Education settings. Teaching Artist Journal, 9 (3), 145-155.

Weida, C. L. (2011).  Gender, Aesthetics, and Sexuality in play: Uneasy lessons from girls’ dolls and action figures.  Journal of Social Theory in Art Education.  31 (1), 1-25.

Weida, C. L.  (2011).  Gas Stations, Trees, and Rockets Wrapped in Weavings and Ideals: The International Fiber Collaborative and Provocations for Social Change.  In McLean, C. & Kelly, R. (Eds.) Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change  (pp. 109-23).  Calgary: Detselig Temeron Press.

Weida, C. L. (2010). Flesh-Pots and clay bodies: Metaphors of meat, geophagy, and consumption in ceramics. Antennae: Journal of Nature and Visual Culture. 15 (1), 17-26.  

Weida, C. L. (2009-2010). Exploring the Book(Cases): The Art of Books, Museums, and Digital Culture.  Guild of Bookworkers Journal.  41 (3), 74-80.  

Weida, C. L. (2009).  Chapter: Subversively Discursive Digital Communities of Craft.  in: GLOBALIZATION: Art & Education Anthology. Co-Editors: Alice Arnold, Ann Kuo, Michael Parsons.  (pp. 111-17).  Reston: NAEA.  

Weida, C. L.  (2009).  Material Cultures and Artists' Codices: Museum Education through Artists' Books.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT 6 Conference Paper. 

Weida, C. L.  (2008).   Dissertation: Ambivalences of art: Nuance, contradiction, and duality in the words and works of women in contemporary ceramics.  (Columbia University Teachers College).

Weida, C. L.  (2007).  Researching Gender and Ceramics.  Spaces: Arts and Humanities Journal.  1 (1), np.  (Columbia University e-journal.)

Weida, C. L. (2007).  Technopotters and Webs of Clay: Digital Possibilities in Ceramics Education. The Teaching Artist Journal.  5 (3) Fall, 183-190.

Weida, C. L.  (2006).  En-gendering Clay: Her Stories in Ceramics.Terra Cotta Journal.  Fall.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Columbia University Teachers College Alumni Exhibition: New York, NY.  2021.   

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education Arts in Education Exhibition.  Online. 2020 (invited).

  • Veridian Artist Gallery’s Art From Detritus - Recycling with Imagination: online/New York, NY. 2020, 

    Juried, group.  

  • Adelphi University Art Education Masters Student Exhibition: Garden City, NY. 2020, 2019, 2018, 

    2017, 2016, 2015.  Co-organizer.

  • Art House Co-op: Sketchbook Project and Exhibition: Brooklyn, NY. 2019. group.

  • Annual Museum of Motherhood Conference Exhibition: Bronx, NY.  2019. group.

  • Adelphi University Artists and Authors Exhibition: Garden City, NY. 2020.  2019. . group.

  • Brave Spaces Exhibition: Columbia University Teachers College.  NY, NY.  2018.  juried, group.

  • Art House Co-op: Sketchbook Project and Exhibition: Brooklyn, NY. 2018. group.

  • Veridian Artists’ Evil Plastic Exhibition: New York, NY.  2018.  juried, group.

  • Adelphi University Art Education Masters Student Exhibition: Garden City, NY. 2008 - 2018 (annual). Co-organizer.

  • Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Salon Exhibition: Brooklyn, NY.  2018.  juried, group.

  • Adelphi University Artists and Authors Exhibition: Garden City, NY. 2008-2019 (annual). group.

  • Veridian Artists In the Spirit Exhibition: New York, NY.  2015.  group.

  • Blanket Stories Online Project and Exhibition: Columbia University, NY.  2014.  juried, group.

  • The Art & Craft of Research: Courtney Weida.  Exhibition of art and publications at Rockville Centre Public Library: Rockville Centre, NY.  2013.  solo, invited. 

  • Adelphi University Faculty Exhibition.  Garden City, NY.  2013.  group.

  • Exquisite Uterus Project exhibition.  University of Wisconsin.  2013.  group.

  • Unbound II: Altered book exhibition.  University of South Dakota.  2013.  juried, group.

  • Drawing Threads.  Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial Project, Rockeville Centre Public Library: Rockville Centre, NY.  2013.  invitational, group.   

  • Creative Cups – Selected Highlights Exhibition, Adelphi University: Garden City, NY. 2013.  juried, group.  

  • Book As Art Exhibition, Cooperative Gallery: Binghampton, NY. 2013. juried, group.

  • Public/Private Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery: Chicago, IL. 2013. juried, group.

  • The Art of the Book, Adelphi University: Garden City, NY.  2013.  group.

  • Multiples Radical Printmaking Exhibition, Bluestockings: New York, NY.  2012. group.

  • Grand Harvest Exhibition, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center: Brooklyn, NY.  2012.  juried, group.

  • Home Exhibition, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education: Bronx, NY.  2012.  group.

  • Power, Politics, and Performance. Madison, WI Women’s Studies Conference. 2012. invitational, group.

  • Paradise Lost Exhibition. Williamsburg Art and Historical Center: Brooklyn, NY. 2012. invitation, group. (painting in Yuko Nii foundation collection).

  • Cyberfeast III: Kitchen Gallery Exhibition. Park Bank National Art Gallery: Battavia, OH. 2012. invitational, group.

  • Drift Station Temporary Library Gallery Exhibition: Zines.. Lincoln, NB. invitational, group. 2012.

  • National Art Education Association Convention Exhibition: International Fiber Collaborative. Assistant Curator. invitational.

  • Annual Community Art Show. Hofstra University: Hempstead, NY. 2011.

  • Veridian Artist Gallery’s Art From Detritus: Recycling with Imagination. New York, NY. 2010.

  • Paragraph Gallery PAGES: Book as Medium, Catalyst, Venue Exhibition. Kansas City, MO. 2010.

  • Columbia University Teachers College Macy Gallery Alumni Exhibition: New York, NY. 2010.

  • Adelphi University Artists and Authors Exhibition: Garden City, NY. 2010.

  • New York Open Center - Graphic Novel Works in Progress: New York, NY. 2010.

  • Serve and Project Cyberfeast Exhibition: online.

  • Art From Detritus Gallery Exhibition: Turner Halls, MA. 2010.

  • The Ecstatic Exhibition. Curious Matter Gallery: Jersey City, NJ. 2010.

  • Art from Detritus Exhibit. Pure Light Gallery: Turner Falls, MA. 2010

  • Eve Sedgwick "Doing Things With Words" Memorial Exhibition: New York, NY. 2010.

  • Art House Co-op. Color Exhibition and Book. Brooklyn, NY. 2010.

  • International Fiber Collective Dream Rocket Project. Various - Huntsville, AL. 2010.

  • Food For Thought Exhibition at Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center: Newark, NJ. 2009.

  • Artists and Authors Exhibition at Adelphi University. Garden City, NY. 2009.

  • Creative Cups Exhibition at Adelphi University: Garden City, NY. 2009.

  • Artisan Gallery Gala at the National Art Education Association Convention: Minneapolis, MN. 2009.

  • National Art Education Association Women's Caucus Exhibition: Minneapolis, MN. 2009.

  • Arthouse Sketchbook Project: Volume III: Multi-venue show (New York, Boston, Philly, DC, Chicago). 2009.

  • Adelphi University Art Department Faculty Show: Garden City, NY. 2008.

  • Ceramics exhibition at Opus 99. Solo exhibition and guest lecture. Cambridge, MA. 2008.

  • State University of New York Faculty Conference Gallery. online. 2008.

  • International Fiber Collaborative Installation: Syracuse, NY. 2008.

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