SAVS
School of Art and Visual Studies
Jody Stokes-Casey is an Assistant Professor of Art Education. She earned her PhD in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation Art Education Shaping Historical Narratives in the Mississippi Delta: A Polyptych Study of CARE was awarded the 2022 American Education Research Association Arts & Inquiry Outstanding Dissertation Award and was a runner up for the 2022 National Art Education Association Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education. Her research utilizes oral histories and creative forms to explore histories, historying, and historiographies of art education with particular focus on rural arts education spaces and the [United States] South.
She also earned an MA in Art History and certification in Museum Studies from the University of Memphis and a BFA in Art Education from the University of Tennessee at Martin. She has taught art at all grade levels K-12 in public schools and has worked in education departments in the National Civil Rights Museum and the Brooks Museum of Art, both in Memphis, TN. She publishes nationally and internationally in the fields of art education, art history, and museum studies. She continually serves on boards and committees for national and state organizations for art educators.
She is interested in supporting the artist / researcher / teacher identities of her students and encourages them to recognize and take ownership of their multi-faceted roles as arts educators.