Sarah E. Kleinman

art historian and curator
Teaching
I have taught college-level courses on modern and contemporary art and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Metropolitan State University of Denver, and have guest lectured on contemporary art, African Diaspora art, African American art, and Trinidad's Carnival and Festival arts at various institutions in the U.S. and abroad. At the Center for Visual Arts at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, I draw on critical pedagogy, close looking, and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to facilitate object-based study in studio art classes.

In the interdisciplinary, museum-based undergraduate seminar The Human Condition: An Arts Perspective, I supported instructors of record in exploring the museum as an experiential learning site in response to thematic concerns about the human condition (war, emotion, fear, othering, rituals surrounding death, suffering, the body) and conducted in-depth scholarly research to adapt the course into a classroom-based seminar.



College-Level Seminars


Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Art History
Instructor: ARTH 366 Contemporary Art
Summer 2024
Summer 2023
Summer 2022
Summer 2021
Summer 2020

Instructor: ARTH 366 Modern and Contemporary Art II
Spring 2018

College-Level Studio Art 


Metropolitan State University of Denver
Department of Art
Instructor: ARTS 2666 Beginning Watermedia
Spring 2024

Instructor: ARTS 3666 Advanced Watermedia
Spring 2024


Graduate Teaching Assistantship


Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Art History
ARTH 361 The Human Condition: An Arts Perspective
Susan Glasser • Spring 2017
Held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with Art History Honors and Pre-Med students.

ARTH 361 Curating Art Exhibitions
Susan Glasser • Fall 2016
Hybrid, international modality with students based in Richmond and Doha, Qatar

ARTH 361 The Human Condition: An Arts Perspective
Margaret Lindauer • Fall 2015; research assistant, Spring 2016
Held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with Art History Honors and Pre-Med students.

ARTH 366 Modern & Contemporary Art II
Colin Lang • Spring 2015

ARTH 103 Survey of Western Art I
Charles Brownell • Fall 2014



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