James Haywood Rolling Jr.

School of Art

Professor, Arts Education
Program Coordinator

James Rolling

054 Comstock Art Facility
Syracuse, NY 13244-5050



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Starting in March 2021, James Rolling will be stepping into a new role as the 37th President of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), founded in 1947 as the leading professional membership organization for art + design educators in our mission to teach creativity at all levels of society.

Rolling is having a good time these days working as the main script consultant for a new children’s television show being piloted by the Jim Henson Company for PBS, aimed at introducing kids to their own creative superpowers by learning through the arts. But what thrills him the most is that he is about to publish an inspirational coming-of-age memoir that traces his upbringing as a painfully shy child raised in a struggling inner-city New York neighborhood—a candid self-portrait of a Black boy often reprimanded for daydreaming too much who grew up to become an artist, an art teacher, and a scholar.

Education

  • Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
  • 2003 Ed.M., Teachers College, Columbia University, NY
  • 2001 M.F.A., Syracuse University, NY
  • 1991 B.F.A., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NY
  • 1988, Diploma with Honors High School of Art and Design
  • 1980, New York State Art Teacher Certification (Permanent)

Expertise

Art + design education; creative leadership; arts-based + narrative research methods; social justice + urban education; visual culture + identity politics; and community-engaged scholarship

Courses taught

  • Creative Processes and Curriculum Structures
  • Creative Leadership & Social Responsibility (online course)
  • Arts in Context
  • Art, Activism, (Post)Modernity
  • Contextual Studies (new first-year School of art rotations)
  • Narrative Inquiry in Research & Creative Practice
  • Creative Leadership & Social Responsibility (online course)
  • Making Methodology: Exploring Arts-based Research
  • Drawing I - Observation
  • Foundations of Art Education
  • Philosophy of Art Education
  • Art & Design Based Curriculum-Making Principles for Urban and Inclusive Education (online course)
  • Creativity in Practice
  • Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Social Responsibility in Art Education
  • Developing Visual Literacy in a Visual Culture
  • Art Educators as Contemporary Artists
  • Seminar in Art Education
  • Making Methodology: Exploring Arts-based Research in Art Education
  • Narrative Inquiry in Qualitative Research
  • Teaching and Writing the Graphic Novel (co-taught w/Marcelle Haddix)
  • Teaching & Leadership for Social Justice

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