Karen Mcgarry
Department Chair & Associate Professor of Art Education
Karen McGarry is an artist educator and works as a teacher educator, guiding preservice art teachers into professional educator roles through visual art education certification. Her work as a K12 art educator and higher education teacher educator began in 2009, working in California, New York, Ohio, and now Michigan. McGarry has contributed scholarship presentations at state and national conferences for art education and graduated from the NAEA鈥檚 School for Art Leaders in 2025. She serves as the Visual Art Section Editor for the International Journal of Education and the Arts, volunteering her service and expanding scholarship engagement. She employs Arts-Based Research practices to guide her work, continually developing her A-R-T-identity: Artist-Researcher-Teacher. Service-learning and social justice practices ground her work as a Teacher Educator, emphasizing equity, diversity, inclusion, access, and belonging while preparing and mentoring tomorrow鈥檚 art educators as they build their own informed, professional A-R-T-identities.
Allison Runyan
Lecturer and Certification Officer
Amy Ruopp
Dean of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor
Karen Mcgarry
Department Chair & Associate Professor of Art Education
Nylise Viau
Program Manager
Kristine Broderick
Adjunct Faculty
Wendelin Wilson
Adjunct Faculty
