Geralyn (Gigi) Schroeder Yu
gsyu2@unm.edu
EDUCATION
University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, PhD Curriculum and Instruction, 2012
Curriculum, Aesthetics, and Teacher Education
Dissertation: Professional Development through the study of Children's interests: The Use of collaborative inquiry and documentation protocols among Early Childhood Teachers
University of Arizona, MA, Art Education, Honors- Pi Lambda Theta, 1998
Thesis: The changing field of art history: Implications for instruction museum and classroom
UNIVERSITY TEACHING HISTORY
2019- present Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Art Department, Art Education, August 2019 -present
2017-2019, Adjunct Faculty, University of New Mexico, Art Education
2013-2019, Part-Time Faculty, Mentor Network Designer, Early Childhood Program,
Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque New Mexico
2007-2010, Instructor, Millikin University, Teacher Education Department
2001-2005, Adjunct Faculty, DePaul University, Teaching and Learning Department – Visual Arts
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023 UNM College of Fine Arts: SEED Grant Support Award
2023 UNM Research Allocation Committee Faculty Award. The relationship between art education and the Reggio Emilia Approach
2023 UNM Two Provost Faculty Travel Awards. NAEA San Antonio and InSEA Conference, Turkey
2023, May UNM Faculty Creative Research Award: Drawing Residency, Jemez Springs, NM
2022 Drawing residency: Drawing Canyon, Sage, and Sky, Jemez Springs, New Mexico (Facilitated by Sara Schneckloth, Professor of Drawing, University of South Carolina
2021-2022 Mentoring for Arts Education Scholars Program, An international mentoring program for arts education scholars. Sponsored by RMIT University, Australia. (Mentor: Kim Snepvangers from University of New South Wales, Australia)
2020-2021 New Mexico Art Education Association: Art Educator of the Year
2020-2021 New Mexico Art Education Association: Higher Education Educator of the Year
2021 University of Vermont: Prospect School and Center Practitioner Fellowship Award.
Researching the Prospect School Archives: UVM Special Collections.
2017-2018 New Mexico Art Education Association: Art Advocate of the Year
2021-2022 UNM Student Experience Fellow. A national, multi-institution effort to improve student success and equity by increasing belonging, growth mindset, & other learning mindsets.
2021-2022 UNM Center for Regional Studies Faculty Award. Building Identity through Place and Storytelling.
Spring, 2021 UNM Faculty Scholarly and Creative Research Award. Art as Inquiry
UNM ART EDUCATION COURSEWORK AND MENTORSHIP
ARTE 2214: Art for Elementary and Special Teachers Undergraduate
ARTE 310: Elementary Art Teaching – Undergraduate (developed course)
ARTE 460 PreK-5th Grade Student Teaching
ARTE 470 6th – 12th Grade Student Teaching
ARTE 505/305: Introduction to Art Education. Undergraduate, Graduate (developed course)
ARTE 510/410: Curriculum Development in Art Education. Undergraduate, Graduate
ARTE 550/450: Topics in Art Education: Place and Pedagogy (developed course)
ARTE 500: Historical Foundation in Art Education, Graduate
ARTE 572/472: Art Criticism and Aesthetics for Teachers. Undergraduate, Graduate
ARTE 580/480 Art Education Internship
ARTE 581 and 582: Research Communities: Development and Defense, Graduate
ARTE 585 (ARTE 572): Applied Research in Art Education – Graduate
ARTE 590: Contemporary Issues in Art Education – Graduate ARTE 591: Problems in Art Education – Graduate
ARTE 591 Advanced Field Experiences, Graduate Level ARTE 598: Thesis Credit in Art Education
UNM ACADEMIC SERVICE
2019 – present UNM College of Education - Assessment Coordinator for Art Education Teacher Preparation
2021-2023 UNM Museum Council, College of Fine Arts Faculty Representative for university-wide committee
2023-present UNM Art Department: Department Area Service (DASC) Committee
2022-present UNM Art Department, Webpage Redesign Committee
2023 UNM Art Department, Chair, Strategic Planning Committee
2023 UNM Art Department Popejoy Dissertation Prize Ad Hoc
2020 –present, UNM Art Department Strategic Planning Committee
2021-2022 UNM Art Department, Executive Committee, Chair Appointed Position
2021-2023 UNM Art Department, Member, Curriculum Committee
2020-2022, UNM Art Department, Member, Recruitment Committee
2019 –2022 UNM Faculty Advisor Art Education Graduate Student Association (AEGSA)
2019 - UNM Art Department Undergraduate Event Committee
UNM FUNDED SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
2023-2025 The Relationship Between Art Education and the Reggio Emilia Approach. In collaboration with Dr. Kristin Taylor, California State University-Northridge. Community of practice comprised of art education faculty, students, and practitioners investigating the potential relationship between Reggio Emilia Approach and the art education teacher preparation. Includes study week in Reggio Emilia, Italy. UNM RAC grant funded.
(2022-2023) Our relationship to nature. Principal Investigator. UNM Art Education in collaboration with Collaborative Teachers Institute. Professional development that partners early childhood educators with teaching artists to co-construct STEAM inquiry approach projects investigating the natural environment for eighty young children and families. Funded by LANL Foundation grant. Project culminated in a traveling exhibition, presented at UNM Masley Gallery, Santa Fe Public Schools, and Imagine Taos Exhibition. Presentation: The Up Close, Underneath, and Far Away: Children, Artists, and Teacher Co-Researching. International Art in Early Childhood Education Conference, Exeter, England, June 2023. Article submitted to International Art in Early Childhood Journal, January 2024.
2023, June 4-8 and 2021, June 7-18) UNM Native Language Teachers Summer Institute: Where Language Happens. Facilitator. A Native Language immersion course and professional development institute for native language teachers from across the Southwest. Organized by University of New Mexico, American Indian Policy Program Faculty Dr. Chris Sims. Lead hands on art making workshops along with Art Department Clay Professor Clarence Cruz. Funded by the Bureau of Indian Education.
2021-2022 Building Identity through Place and Storytelling. Co-Principal Investigator. UNM Taos Education faculty, Pam Remstein. In collaboration with New Mexico Educators Rising, high school chapters. Collaboration with UNM Harwood, Taos educator Gwen Fernandez. A series of workshops for high school students from two contexts interested in becoming educators featuring regional artists/cultural workers sharing their work and stories. The series of artists include: Toby Morfin, Agnes Chavez, Rene Palomares, and Trish Martinez. F. Following each presentation participants engage in reflective dialogue, connecting artistic thinking with educating. Funded by UNM Center for Regional Studies.
2020-2021 UNM Art Department Gale Memorial Virtual Speaker Series: Interrogating Spaces: Alternative Discourses in Art Education. A speaker series that investigated contemporary art as pedagogy within art education contexts. Included well known artist/educators: Dr. León de la Rosa Carillo, Dr. Amy Kraehe, Dr. Jorge Lucero, Albuquerque High Art Teachers, Elena Baca – National Hispanic Cultural Center, Zach Pine – environmental artist/educator, William Estrada, Dr Heather Kaplan, and Dr. Jennifer Combe.
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS (with Outputs)
(2023-2025) Mosaic Marks Word Materials Exhibition Project. A cross regional (Tucson, Arizona, New Mexico, and Chicago) study of children’s expressive mark-making and the relationship to verbal languages. The study culminates in an exhibition that reflects the multiple ways children and teachers investigate mark-making. The project includes hosting the Reggio Children exhibition at Explora Museum, June-August 2024. Funded by NM Arts ($7,500) and Kellogg Foundation ($50,000)
(2022-present) Chicago Art Partnerships in Education –CoLab Project: Case Study of teaching artists. Co-Principal Investigator. This research aims to reveal two CoLab teaching artists’ dynamic practices that emerged due to their collaboration with teachers and students during public school classroom arts-based inquiry projects. Research Funded by National Endowment for the Arts. Presentation: Embodied Narrative Inquiry: What Can a Program Evaluation Set in Motion. AERI Presentation, October 2023. Abstract submitted for International Journal of Education through the Arts Special Issue, December 2023.
(2021-2024) University of Illinois Chicago Gallery 400 and Jane Hull Museum. Learning Together: Art Education and Community. An exhibition and engagement program that explores Chicago’s rich history of arts education, facilitated by Gallery 400 (G400) and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (JAHHM). Together the two exhibitions will explore how pedagogical art practices in Chicago have constituted a democratic practice, whether in small classroom group settings, or in neighborhood scale groups or communities. Initial Symposium held June 5, 2021. Terra Foundation Funded. Exhibition September 2024.
(2021-2022) East Tennessee State University and University of Michigan. Co-Principal Investigator: The collaborative artistic development processes of early childhood and art educators. With Jane Broderick, East Tennessee State and Seong Hong Bock, University of Michigan. (June-August 2021). The purpose of this study is to learn Reggio inspired early childhood educators’ and art educator’s perceptions about art as inquiry in the early childhood classroom. The study involves co-designed virtual workshops for early childhood and art educators from 12 different U.S. contexts and programs. Presentation shared at the Association for Constructivist Teaching, October 24, 2021. 2021. UNM Faculty Scholarly and Creative Research Award. Article submitted Art Education Policy Review, January 2024.
(2019-2023) Webster University and Lewis University. Co-Principal Investigator. Webster University and Lewis University and Reggio Children, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Investigation of Reggio Emlilia Approach in Emergent Bi-Lingual Early Childhood Settings. Included interview with Reggio Emilia, Italy educators and U.S. educators. Co-Authored book: Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L, Yu, G. & Reyes, J. Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge, July 2023. InSEA World Congress
conference presentation, August 2023. AERA presentations, April 2024.
2018-2020 Paradise Valley Community College and Musical Instrument Museum. Collaborative Research Project: The Intersections of Early Childhood Education and the Arts. The purpose of this research is to investigate art in early childhood contexts using a Participatory Action Research approach. Participants were recruited through the Leading Learners Council: Paradise Valley Community College, Paradise Valley, Arizona, Musical Instrument Museum, ChildsPlay Theater, Funded by First Things First Arizona. Final Report: December 2020. Presentation shared at the National Association of Young Children, November 9, 2021. Article published: International Journal of Education & the Arts, July 2023.
EXTERNAL GRANTS
(Re-Applied and waiting for results, February 1, 2024). National Endowment for the Humanities K-12 Summer 2024 Institute: Reimagining the U.S./Mexican Border Through Multimodal Storytelling and Arts-Based Inquiry. In collaboration with UNM Latin American Studies (Emmy Tither, K-12 programming), University of El Paso (Heather Kaplan), and 516 ARTS. $175,000.
2023 Kellogg Foundation. Collaboration between UNM Art Ed, Collaborative Teachers Institute, New Mexico Reggio Emelia Exchange, and Explora Children’s Museum. Funding for workshops, North American Reggio Emilia Alliance Conference, and Mosaic Marks Words Materials, Exhibition from Reggio Children. $50,000.00
(2022-2023) LANL Foundation: Our relationship to nature. Professional development with teaching artists and early childhood educators for classroom experiences. Created traveling exhibition. $5,000
2023 New Mexico Arts: Crossing Boundaries. Collaboration between UNM Art Ed, Collaborative Teachers Institute, New Mexico Reggio Emelia Exchange, and Explora Children’s Museum. Drawing as Language Workshops (Sara Schneckloth and Rachel Zollinger) and Mosaic Marks Words Materials, Exhibition from Reggio Children. Selected through the UNM competition process. $7,.500
(Not funded, April 2022). Mellon Grant: Experiencing the City as Place: Encountering Latinidad Through Play and Art Making. With Heather Kaplan (UTEP) and William Estrada (University of Illinois). $100,000
CONSULTANT WORK
(2014-present) Co-founder New Mexico Collaborative Teachers Institute
The Collaborative Teachers Institute (CTI) began in 2014 as a community of practice made up of early childhood educators from New Mexico, including classroom teachers, parents, program directors, art educators, and museum and nature-based program educators working within diverse contexts. CTI members share the common goal of creating interdisciplinary, aesthetic inquiries based on the interests of children, families, and educators. Using a reflective process through the study of pedagogical documentation, CTI members work to make the complexities of young children’s creative processes and inquiries visible.
(2020-present) Co-Teacher and Program Development. PreSchool Adventures in Art. Albuquerque Museum.
Young Children and Caregivers Art Class. Developed a side-by-side curriculum where both children and adults engage in individual and collaborative art making.
(2016-2021) Paradise Valley Community College, Facilitator, The Collaborative Educators Institute.
Professional Development Series: Study of Creativity and Imagination (2020-2021), Borders, Bridges, and Intersections: The Geography of Early Childhood and the Arts. (2019-2020). The Study of Artists’ Studios (2018-2019).
PREK-ELEMENTARY GRADE ART TEACHING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2012-2018, Early Childhood Art Resource Teacher, Albuquerque Public Schools
Developed framework for PreK collaborative art inquiry projects with children and teachers. Designed early childhood art education professional development experiences for Prek classroom teachers. Developed community collaborations with Albuquerque Museum and Bernalillo County Open Space.
2012-2014, Project Manager, Wonder of Learning Exhibition Project. Albuquerque, NM. Organized hosting of the Wonder of Learning exhibition from Reggio Children Italy. Wrote grants (over $200,000); designed and implemented professional development initiatives, and managed team of volunteers.
2003-2005, K-2nd Grade Art and Drama Teacher, Lake Bluff, Illinois, Public School
1999-2003, Student Art Coordinator, Chicago Commons Child Development, Reggio Emilia inspired agency serving infants – school age children and families. Multi-site program in economically challenged areas of Chicago. Co-designed national and international professional development based on the Reggio Emilia Approach.
1997-1999, K-5th Grade Art Teacher, Nash Elementary School, Tucson, Arizona
EXHIBITIONS
Curated Exhibitions
(2024, January
(2023, November 3-22, 2023). Emerging Artists Curated Exhibition: 17 New Mexico Middle and High Schools, 71 students. UNM Masley Gallery.
(2023, October 15-November). Our relationship to Nature. Early Childhood STEAM Project. Santa Fe Public Schools District Office.
(2023, August 21-September 6). Our Relationship to Nature. Early Childhood STEAM project. UNM Masley Gallery
(2023, March 23-April 2). Our Place: Young Children’s artworks from 1977 Latin America and Present-Day
New Mexico. UNM Masley Gallery.
(2023, January 23-February 2). UNM Art Education All Program Exhibition: What’s the big idea? UNM Masley Gallery. (2022, January). UNM Art Education All Program Exhibition: All Together Now. UNM Masley Gallery.
(2020, October 5-November 6) Honoring Loss Exhibit and Artists Talk, Co-curator with UNM Art History student Angie Rizzo. UNM Masley Gallery.
Personal Artwork Exhibited
(2024, June) Language of the Landscape. USSEA Conference Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Juried
(2022, March 4-26). Dwelling, mixed media. Water is Life. Tortuga Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Juried
(2022, October 27-November 6). Excavation I and Excavation II. New Mexico Art Education Association Member Exhibit.
(2021, August 15-31). InProgress – Photography designed on silk fabric. Inner Landscape – Drawing with natural pigments.
New Mexico Art Education Association Member Exhibit. Juried.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L, Reyes, J., & Yu, G.S. (2023). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Chung, M., Yu, G.S., Pollitt, J. (projected 2026). The Right to Be Heard: Listening as a Transdisciplinary Practice. Submitted February 2024 Routledge Studies in Curriculum Theory, series editor William F. Pinar.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Yu, G.S. (forthcoming, 2025). We Are Aware: Creating Space for Young Children’s Aesthetic Points of View as Socially Engaged Art Practice. In Heather Kaplan & Christine Thompson (Eds.) All Children are Foreigners: Challenging Myths and Misconceptions in Early Art Education. (Projected 2025). Bloomsbury Publishing.
Fyfe, B., Lee-Johnson, Y.L, Reyes, J., & Yu, Schroeder G. (2023). Introduction to our research, framing constructs, and purposes. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Fyfe, B., Yu, GS, Reyes, J., & Lee-Johnson, YL (2023). Moving the conversation forward. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Oviedo, J. & Yu, G. (2023). Studio art teachers’ perspectives on multimodality and the hundred languages in early childhood multilingual contexts. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach.Routledge
Reyes, J. & Yu, GS (2023). Words Unspoken: The radical pursuit of culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogical documentation. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Reyes, J., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., & Fyfe, B. (2023). What we learned from our conversation with Reggio Emilia Educators. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (2023). Breathing new life: The graphic languages, translanguaging, and metaphoric language with young children in multilingual contexts. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee- Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds). Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Lee-Johnson, Y.L., & Reyes, J. (2023). The Metaphorical Context of the Atelier as a Border Crossing Space: Exploring Relationships in Young Children’s Languaging and Translanguaging Processes. In B. Fyfe, Y. Lee-Johnson, J. Reyes, & G. Schroeder Yu (Eds).
Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach. Routledge.
Yu, G., Browne, J., & Halligey, A. (2023). Making meaning, creating (in) community: An international dialogue on community art education within early childhood contexts. In C. Lin, A. Sinner, & R. Irwin (Eds.), Transversalities: International Perspectives on Community Art Education. Intellect Publishers.
Yu, G. & Bliss, M. (2022). Where did all the yellow go: Empathy for yellow (Visual Essay). In G. Coutts & T.Eca (Eds). Learning Through Art: International Pictures of Practice, InSEA Publications.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Horwat, J., Yu, G., & Grube, V. (accepted 2024). Good Mourning: Existing with Loss while Living in the Anxious Now.
Social Theory in Art Education. v.43
Palmer, K., Yu, G., Aprill A. Palmer, K., Yu, G. S., & Aprill, A. (2023). Co-constructing sustainable collaborations in early childhood settings through the arts. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 24(6). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370063301
Yu, G. (2021). Re (Searching) Meaning: Aesthetic teaching and learning outside the box. Visual Art Research Journal, 47(2).
Yu, G. (2021). Transformations: In Progress (Visual Essay). IMAG, 12.
Yu, G. (2021). Re (Searching) Meaning: Aesthetic teaching and learning outside the box. Visual Art Research Journal, 47(2).
Yu, G. (2021). Transformations: In Progress (Visual Essay). IMAG, 12.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Yu, G. (abstract accepted, 2024). A Collection of Children’s Artworks as Imaginative Openings. International Journal of Art and Design Education, Special Issue: Imagination.
Yu, G., Broderick, J. Hong, S. (2024). The Language of Collaboration: Art as Inquiry: Early Childhood Teachers and Art Educators Co-Constructing Ideas about Collaboration through Drawing. The Art Education Policy Review.
Yu, G., Reyes, J. & Goubeaux, P. (2024). Uncertainty and Reciprocal Relationships: Collaboration Laboratory as an Ecology of Practices. Studies in Art Education
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Yu, G. & Kaminsky, J. (2022). Reflections on Co-Researching and the Reggio Emilia Approach. The International Reggio Emilia Exchange.29(1).
Yu, G. & Roanhorse, V. (2021). Connection to the land: An interview with Victoria Roanhorse (Navajo educator). Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 28(1).
Rankin, B. & Yu, G. (2020). Learning from my encounters with Loris Malaguzzi, 1981-1989 (2 Part Interview). Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 27(2) and 27(3).
Yu, G. & Thompson, N. (2022). Embracing differences through an ecology of relationships. In R. Wilson, Nature for Every Child.
Gryphon House.
Yu, G. (2019). Reflections on school wide research as professional development. Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange. 26(3).
Bliss, M., Sosa, D., & Yu, G (2019). Bringing the outside inside. In L. Gandini & C. Topal (Eds.), Beautiful Stuff in Nature (2nd ed., pp. 116-121). Davis Publications.
Bliss, M., Sosa, D. & Yu, G. (2019). Big skies. School Arts Magazine. (March 2019).
PROGRAM EVALUATION REPORTS
Yu, GS, Reyes, J., Goubeaux, P. (2023). Documentation as Medium within an Ecology of Practices. Chicago Artist Partnerships in Education Program Evaluation Report, Fall 2023. CAPE
Goubeaux, P. & Yu, GS (2023). SciArt Santa Fe. New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.
Yu, G., Reyes, J. & Goubeaux, P. (October, 2022). Reciprocal Relationships: Chicago Artist Partnerships in Education Collaboration Laboratory (CoLab) as an Ecology of Practices. Program Evaluation Report, Spring 2022.
Yu, G. & Aprill, A. (June, 2020). Intersection of early childhood education and the fine and performing arts. Final Report Submitted: First Things First, Paradise Valley Community College.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Yu, G & Putnam, H. (2020-2024). PreSchool Adventures in Art. Young Children. And Caregiver Program. Albuquerque Art Museum.
Yu, GS (2020-2021). New Mexico Wildlife Federation, Nature Niños. Co-Facilitator/Curriculum Designer
Wonderlings Educator Certificate.
Yu, GS (2019). Art Start Docent Tour Guide. Albuquerque Museum.
PROFESSIONAL EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Innovations in Early Education: Editor Spring and Summer Issues (2019-present)
The International Reggio Emilia Exchange Associate Editor: Peer Review Issue
Visual Arts Research Journal
University of Illinois Peer Reviewer (2022-present)
Common Ground Research Network Peer Reviewer: (2020-present)
The Design Principles and Practices Journal Collection
Peter Lang Publishing Peer Reviewer: (2021)
REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
Yu, G. & McDonald, H. (2023, June 21-23). Co-Researching in Nature with Young Children: The Up Close and Underneath.
International Art in Early Childhood Conference. Exeter, UK.
Yu, G. (2023, April 15). A History of Prospect School Collections (1965-1991): Revealing the Imprint of the Maker. National Art Education Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.
Yu, G., (2023, April 15). Giving time: Becoming an art educator and cultivating being learners and researcher. Panel Presentation. G. Yu, J. Horwat, and V. Grube. Confronting the cult of speed in academic capitalism: Slowing down through holistic art education approaches. National Art Education Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.
Yu, G. (2023, April 13). Confronting misconceptions about messiness in early childhood artmaking. In Kaplan, H., Cinquemaniu, S. Yu, G., Chung, KD. Panel Presentation Unmaking Myths About Early Childhood Art Education and Children. National Art Education Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (November 21, 2022). Drawn Together: Graphic Languages, Translanguaging, and Metaphoric Language with Young Children. Research in Early Childhood Education Conference. Tromso Norway.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (November 20, 2022). Speaking back to Neoliberalism: The Radical Pursuit of Pedagogical Documentation with Linguistically Minoritized Young Children. Research in Early Childhood Education Conference, Tromso, Norway.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (November 20, 2022). Sustaining Practices: Past, Present, and Future Pedagogies. Research in Early Childhood Education Conference. Tromso Norway.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (November 20, 2022). Co-Researching with children the Up Close and Underneath. International Research in Early Childhood Conference, Tromso Norway.
Yu, G. (2022, October 20). ReMixing in In/Between Spaces and Cultivating Something New. Panel Presentation Sikkema, S., Yu, G., Jardim, G. Co-constructing artmaking as site/event/encounter. Alliances & Commonalities Conference.
Stockholm University, Sweden.
Kaplan, H., Cinquemaniu, S. Yu, G., Chung, KD. (June 21, 2022). Panel Presentation. Unmaking Myths About the Art Studio and Young Children. Re-Conceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference. University of Vancouver.
Yu, G., Chung, M., Combe, J., Lewis, L. (2022). Historical Trends In/Between Art Education Curriculum and Early Childhood Pedagogies in Art Teacher Preparation. National Art Education Association Conference. New York City.
Makemson, J. & Yu, G. (March 4, 2022). Programs Renewed: Discussing New Directions in University-Level Art Education.
National Art Education Association, New York City.
Yu, G., Broderick, J., Hong, S. (2021, October 24). Art as Inquiry: Early Childhood Teachers and Art Educators Constructing Together. Association of Constructivist Teaching Virtual Conference. San Diego.
Yu, G. & Aragon, M. (2021, October 23). Wandering, Wondering, and Making: Creating Multi-sensorial Relationships with and in Natural and Virtual Environments. Creata-Vision New Mexico Art Education Conference, Portales, NM.
Yu, G., Putnam, H., & Aragon, M. (2021, July 17). Seeking Alternative Narratives: A Just and Equitable Art Curriculum for the Future. United States Society for Arts Education. Re-imagining Inclusivity and Cultural Diversity in Art and Visual Culture. Virtual Conference.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (2021, November 30). In Collaboration with Others: Dialogue, Graphic Languages, and Translanguaging.
3rd International Conference Paolo Freire: The Global Legacy.
Yu, G. & Reyes, J. (2021, June 9). Educators Drawn Together: A community of practice creates images from the field and offers counternarrative during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Association for Visual Pedagogies. Exploring Visual Worlds of Education. Virtual Conference. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Yu, G. (2021, April 16). The Glitching Project: Art Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 Quarantine. UNM Colloquium for Innovative Teaching: Post-Pandemic Pedagogy.
Makemson, J. & Yu, G. (2021, March 4). Teaching Resiliency: Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work and Stay in Art Classrooms. National Art Education Association Virtual Conference.
Yu, G., Aragon, M., Putnam, H. (2021, March 4). Applying Systems Thinking to Art Curriculum Development. NAEA Virtual Conference.
Sunday, K., Yu, G., Combes, J. & Kaplan, H. (March 28, 2020, conference cancelled). Transformative pedagogies for early childhood art education [Panel Presentation]. National Art Education Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
Yu, G. (2020, March 28, conference cancelled). An arts-based inquiry approach to investigating natural phenomena in an early childhood setting. National Art Education Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
Yu, G., Aragon, M., & Putnam, H. (2020, March 27, conference cancelled). Applying systems thinking to art curriculum development.
National Art Education Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
Yu, G., (2019, October 31 – November 5) Releasing the imagination: An aesthetic approach towards teachers as leaders [Paper for panel presentation]. Teacher leadership at the center of re-constructing the culture of the school. 27th Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference, Las Cruces, NM.
Yu, G. (2019, October 26). An arts-based inquiry approach to investigating natural phenomena in an early childhood setting.
New Mexico Art Education Association Conference, Taos, NM.
Sims, C., Tyson, K., Yu, G. (2019). Examining the influences of the Reggio Emilia Approach: The implications for New Mexico’s children. Poster session presented at the College of Education Research Showcase, October 25, 2019, University of New Mexico.
Yu, G., Aragon, M., & Putnam, H. (2019, October 25). Josef and Anni Albers: Relational thinking with color theory. New Mexico Art Association Conference, Taos, NM.
Coyle, J., Snider-Bryan, C., & Yu, G. (2019, September 25). PreK and museum play. Programs for preschool learners. Mountain Museum Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
Yu, G. & Schiefelbein, I. (2019, March 5). In dialogue: Children, artists, teachers and materials. New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS/GUEST LECTURES
Yu, G. (2022, May 15). The Atelier as a State of Mind. Keynote Speaker. Pinnacle Presbyterian Preschool Early Childhood Conference.
Yu, G. (2021, November 6 & &, 2021). Photography as a Visual Language: Co-Researching with Children Up-close and Underneath. Tucson Children’s Project.
Yu, G. (2021, September 9) Place and Pedagogy: Seeing Space as an Ecology of Creative Practices. Chicago Artists Partners in Education. Virtual presentation for staff retreat.
Yu, G. (2021, September 7, 2021). Connecting Body, Heart, and Hands. UNM Arts and Medicine Program. Guest Lecture. Yu, G. (2021, June 9) Studying Space through Drawing with Young Children. Capliano University, British Columbia.
Visual Art and Early Childhood Education Course. Sylvia Kind Instructor. Virtual Guest Lecture Presentation. D’Adamo, K., Hetland, L., Rankey, J., Rice, L., Marshall, J, Winner, E., Yu, G. (2021, March 5) A Conversation About
Intertwining Pedagogies. National Art Education Association, Virtual Conference.
Yu, G. (2020, August 25). The wonderful life of materials: Rethinking the studio. CAPE (Chicago Artists Partners in Education) Presents: A Dialogue on Family Learning During the Pandemic.
Yu, G. (2020, January 25). Presenter and conference facilitator. The intersections of early childhood education and the fine and performing arts. Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
Yu, G. (2019, August 29). Keynote Speaker. The role of documentation in early learning settings.
Our Beginning Early Learning, Seattle, WA
FACILITATED WORKSHOPS AND BOOK STUDIES
Yu, G. (November 17, 2023). Inquiry with Materials. Art and Early Childhood Educators, Santa Fe Public Schools.
Yu, G. & Bliss, M. (August, 2023). Santa Fe Public Schools Early Childhood Department. Painting as Inquiry.
Yu, G. & McDonald, H. (June 21-23, 2023). Drawn Together: Children, Educators, and the Natural World. International Art in Early Childhood Conference. University of Exeter, UK.
Yu, G. & Putnam, H. (February 11, 2023). Side by Side: Young Children and Caregivers Making Art Together. Early Childhood Mentor Network. Albuquerque Museum.
Yu, G., McDonald, M., Etchemendy, T. (August 27, 2022). The Collaborative Teachers Institute Summer Institute. UNM Taos Campus.
Yu, G. (2022, January 4). The Possibilities of Loose Parts. Santa Fe Public Schools Early Childhood Program.
Yu, G. (2021, July 21). Workshop Facilitator: The Many Languages of Inquiry through Arts Based Learning. LANL Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Yu, G., Putnam, H., & Aragon, M. (2021, March 5). Workshop Facilitators: Wondering and Wandering: Creating Multisensorial Relationships with and in the Bosque. New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Yu, G. (2020, January 3). Workshop Presenter: The Clay Atelier. Santa Fe Public Schools, NM.
Yu, G., Rankin, B., & Remstein, P. (2020, October). Virtual Book Study: Loris Malaguzzi and the Teachers. Sponsored by: New Mexico Reggio Emilia Exchange.
Yu, G. (2019, August 6). Workshop Presenter: The language of the arts in early childhood settings. Santa Fe Community College Professional Development Day, Santa Fe, NM.
Yu, G. (2019, June 27-29). Atelier Facilitator. North American Reggio Emilia Alliance Conference, Peachtree School, Atlanta, Georgia.
SERVICE: INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL AND NEW MEXICO
(2024). Nominated Chair New Mexico Arts Education Advocacy Council.
(2024-2026) Nominated Chair. Early Childhood Interst Group. National Art Education Association.
(2020-present) New Mexico Arts Education Advocacy Council, Finance and Diversity and Inclusion Committees
(2023). United States Society for Art Education Conference Planning Committee.
(2022). Bright Start Early Learning Alliance: Voices of Children Advisory International Council.
(2020 present) Design Team: EXPLORA - STEAM Early Learning Campus.
(2021-2022) Design Team United Community Academy Albuquerque Public Schools Charter School. Directed by Kiran Katira, UNM Community Engagement Center.
(2021) New Mexico Arts, Grants Reviewer
(2020-2022) New Mexico Art Education Association Higher Education Representative
(December 19, 2020) Scholastic Arts, Juror
(2017-2019). Co-Chair: Five Study Collaborative State (Arizona, California, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico): Study Week to Reggio Emilia, Italy May 26 – June 1, 2019