华体会

Director, Creativity & Innovation at CC

Education

Professional Positions Held (selected)

Director, Creativity & Innovation, 华体会 (2024-present)

Director, Creativity Lab, 华体会 (2023-2024)

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer Education Department, 华体会 (1996-2023)

Faculty Fellow in Creativity and Innovation, 华体会 (2021-2023)

Faculty Research Fellow, Provost's Office, 华体会 (2020-2021)

Director of Museum Education, Fine Arts Center at 华体会 (2017-2020)

Mellon Faculty Fellow for the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Alliance (2016-2017)

Assistant Chair, Education Department, 华体会 (2016-2017)

Interim Chair, Spring Semester, Education Department, 华体会 (2014)

Associate Director of Education Programs/Director of K-12 Programs, Education Department, 华体会 (2003-2010)

Co-Director, Partnership for Civic Engagement, 华体会 (2008-2011)

Director, College Aiding Program, Education Department, 华体会 (1999-2008)

Honors

First Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Alliance (2016-2017)

Mortar Board Honoree of the Year; Honors Convocation, 华体会 (2006, 2009)

Order of Omega Honoree, 华体会 (2007)

Partnership Award, Center for Service and Learning, 华体会 (2007)

Service-Learning Advocacy and Support Award, School District 11, Colorado Springs (2007)

Teacher of the Year: Arts, Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs (1993)

Teacher of the Year: Pioneer Elementary, School District 20, Colorado Springs (1993)

Publications

Articles & Book Chapters

Stanec, K., Taber, M.R., 2024. Using Visual Notetaking to Promote Participatory Equity in a Science and Math Methods Course. New Perspectives in Science Education: Conference Proceedings, 13th Edition. Published by Liberiauniversitaria, Florence, Italy

Hunter, J., Stanec, K., 2025. Cultivating Creative Thinking at 华体会. Palgrave Handbook of Applied Creativity Programs in Higher Education. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York (in publication).

Courses Taught at 华体会 (selected)

ED370 Arts Integration: Creating Critical Thinkers and Connected Communities (ED520/ED529) Teaching the Expressive Arts in the Elementary Grades for MATs) (1996-2017)

ED210 Power of the Arts, Theory and Practice; Cornerstone Initiative Couse (2004-2022)

ED478 Advanced Methods: Critical Pedagogies in Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction (2015-2016)

ED580 Specialized Internship Program (2012-2017)

ED120 Youth Empowerment (2013-2015)

ED556 Action Research for Secondary and K12 MATs (2010-2011)

Professional Involvement (selected)

Board of Directors, Museum of Dance, San Francisco (2022-present)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education (KC PIE), Washington DC (2017-2020)

Arts Business and Education Consortium (ABE), Colorado Springs (2004-present)

Supervisor of Secondary Art Student Teachers, 华体会 (2007-2013)

Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society Chapter Counselor, 华体会 (2006-2012)

Secondary Clinical Liason, Coordinator of Secondary Supervisors, 华体会 (2004-2006)

Committee Work at 华体会 (selected)

FAC Performing Arts Implementation Committee for Strategic Planning (2018-2019)

Co-Chair for Strategic Planning Subcomittee for Bemis School of Art; Implementation Committee for Bemis School of Art (2016-2018)

IDEA Space Advisory Board (2014-2017)

Strategic Planning Action Team: Center for Immersive Learning and Engaged Teaching (2013-2017)

Grant and Funding Work (selected)

Key team member on $1,024,000 grant: Humanities for Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practice and Social Justice, 华体会 (2021-present)

Supported work to secure and report-out on various grants for the FAC museum (2017-2020)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education Teaching Artist grant (2019)

Supported Advancement team on $1million estate gift

Special Projects (selected)

Researched, designed, piloted Possibility Books (PB), a pedagogical approach that develops creative thinking by intentionally connecting disparate ideas to content and goals.  The practice involves specific materials and a series of adaptable prompts which create a safe space for participants to explore co-creation of learning. Utilizing mark-making to access embodied knowledge and centering identity perspectives as assets, PB creates value for diverse perspectives. Most students in the PB pilot (85%) agreed that the method contributed to their sense of community, wellness, creativity mindsets, and recommended PB be used in other courses.

Created Multiple Narratives, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation to connect K- 12 writing to art while collaborating with CC students, local 4th/5th graders, docents and curators at the CS Fine Arts Center. Project shifts the act of looking at art from an art-historical model (privileging information about the art itself) toward more inclusive realms (focusing on student voice). Created to incorporate critical pedagogies that question authoritative voice, knowledge and cultural equity. Included substantial educational technology component that utilized the art museum to honor students’ voice and perspective (2016-present)

Presentations and Professional Development Offerings (selected)

Possibility Books for FabIndia School, Bali, India (remote and in person) (2024)

Possibility Books: a Bridge for Forward Thinking, CREA conference, Italy (2024)

Visual Notebooks to Value Many Ways of Knowing, CREA conference, Italy (2023)

Empowering Student Voice through Art, Crayola Webinar Panelist, International (remote) (2021)

Prioritizing Visitoe Voice NAEA Museum Subdivision Preconference Presentation (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives Quantum 10: Equity in Education International Conference (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (remote) (2021)

Multiple Narratives: An Approach to Looking at Art, Call 2Art Unconference (remote) (2020)

Arts Integration as Critical Pedagogy, for ED478: Advanced Methods: Inclusive Pedagogies in Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction, 华体会 (2017-2019)

Continuing Professional Education (selected)

Kennedy Center Partners in Education Meeting and Conference, Washington DC (2018-2020)

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) National Training Through Advanced Practicum (2018-2020)

Difference Matters, Dr. Brenda Allen, Fine Arts Center, CC, Colorado Springs (2019)

Alliance of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) National Conference (2018, 2019)