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Lisa Lenarz
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
Art
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Lisa Lenarz Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
Art
Specialty area(s)
Art Education
Brief biography
Lisa Lenarz earned her M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT and her B.S. in K-12 Art Education from UW-La Crosse. She also studied at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD). She has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work has been shown most notably at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) in Bregenz, Austria, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her research, informed by years of teaching art in K–12 schools and higher education, focuses on the role of the art educator as a ‘teaching artist’ and on interdisciplinary models of art education that deepen learning and cultural connections.
Current courses at UWL
ART 361 - Field I in Art Education
ART 461 - Field II in Art Education
ART 401 - Foundational Practices in Art Education
ART 403 - Contemporary Practices in Art Education
EDS 492 - K-12 Student Teaching Seminar for AWLME (Art, World Language, and Music Education)
ART 302 - Visual Language in the Global Classroom (as Faculty-led Japan Study Abroad & Asynchronous/Online sections)
Education
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT | M.F.A., Studio Art
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, WI | B.S., Art Education
Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, MN | Fine Arts, Painting & Sculpture
Career
Teaching history
UW-La Crosse
Associate Professor (2022-current)
Assistant Professor (2018-2022)
Associate Lecturer (2017-2018 & 2012-2014)
Viterbo University
Adjunct Faculty (2014-2017)
School District of La Crosse
Art Teacher K-12 (2008-2018)
Professional history
Pump House Regional Arts Center
Gallery Committee (2010-2013 & 2018-2021)
Board Member, Youth Art Coordinator, & Instructor (2008-2013)
Wisconsin Arts Board
Grant Proposal Review Panelist (2019)
WAEA (Wisconsin Art Education Association)
Co-Interim President Elect (2013-2014), Web Designer (2012-2014), Advocacy Representative (2011-2012), & Elementary Education Representative (2010-2011)
Research and publishing
Research
Grant-funded Projects
Increasing Knowledge and Familiarity of Contemporary Indigenous Artists and their Works (2024-2025) Creative Communities, Wisconsin Arts Board (WAB)/National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant. To read more about the project and research, click here.
Published Articles
Lenarz, Lisa M. (2018/2019). Engaging Marginalized Students Through the Visual Arts. ASCD Journal (Associate for Supervision and Curriculum Development), December/January (Issue).
Editor/Mentor of Published Student Research
Bernhagen, M., Smith, S., & Sonnek, A. (2020). Testing Creative Lines of Inquiry in the Art Classroom (1014494990 780430603 L. Lenarz, Ed.). Journal of Undergraduate Research, XXIII. https://www.uwlax.edu/urc/jur-online/volume-xxiii-2020.
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