curriculum vitae
Current Appointments
2025 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
Education
2024 Dual-Title PhD in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
Dissertation Title: Glitch Feminist Worldbuilding for Reproductive Justice
Dissertation Committee Chair: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Passed Defense: October 2, 2024
2016 MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
2013 BFA in Studio Art with Visual Communications Emphasis, University of Arizona.
Teaching Experience
Pennsylvania State University
Spring 2025 Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) 230N: Dangerous Bodies.
Spring 2025 WGSS 100: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Fall 2024 WGSS 301: Sexualities, Gender and Power: Feminist Thought and Politics.
Fall 2023-Spring 2024 WGSS 120: Sex, Gender, and the Body.
Summer 2023-Summer 2024 WGSS 106: Representing Women and Gender in Literature, Art, and Popular Cultures (Web, Asynchronous).
Fall 2022-Spring 2023 WGSS 106: Representing Women and Gender in Literature, Art, and Popular Cultures.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Art Education 225: Diversity, Pedagogy, & Visual Culture.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Art 20: Introduction to Drawing for Non-majors (Web, Asynchronous).
Previous Appointments
2016 Teaching Artist, Oregon College of Art and Craft Community Outreach/Youth Program, Portland, OR.
2015-2016 Teaching Assistant, Pacific Northwest College of Art Continuing Education Pre-College Program.
2015-2016 Teaching Assistant, Pacific Northwest College of Art Continuing Education Youth Program.
2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant to Prof. Stephen Slappe. Intermediate Video, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant to Prof. Linda Kliewer, Offsite Projects, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Honors and Awards
2024 Judith Hardes Graduate Research Award in Reproductive Justice, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2024 Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial Graduate Dissertation Research Award, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2024 General Education Microgrant supporting teaching, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2023 Curatorial Residency, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA.
2023 Judith Hardes Graduate Research Award in Reproductive Justice, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2023-2024 Judith Hardes Graduate Teaching Assistantship & Grant in Aid, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2023 Sara Woods Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2022-2023 Graduate Teaching Assistantship & Grant in Aid, Department of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.
2021-2022 Graduate Teaching Assistantship & Grant in Aid, Art Education Program, The Pennsylvania State University.
2020-2021 University Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University.
2015 Caldera Artist Residency, Sisters, OR.
Publications in Refereed Journals
Condit-Summerson, M. (2024). Tears at school: Affective encounters, feminist pedagogical spaces, and the Judy Chicago office. Visual Arts Research, 50(2), 29-43. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/943309
Keifer-Boyd, K., Lewis, B., & Condit-Summerson, M. (2024). Participatory mapping of critical encounters in public spheres: Feminist glitching with Augmented Reality. Visual Arts Research, 50(2), 1-13. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/943307.
Condit-Summerson, M. (2023). “How do we break what is broken?”: An exploration of glitch feminism in art/education. Studies in Art Education, 64(4), 426-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393541.2023.2255086
Condit-Summerson, M., & Summerson, J. (2023). Nymphaea: Lovers’ letter to water lilies. Visual Culture & Gender, 18, 18-28. https://vcg.emitto.net/index.php/vcg/article/view/173
Refereed Conference Presentations
2025 National Art Education Association Conference, Louisville, KY, Pre- and Post-assessment in a Multicase Study of Antiracism Toward Racial Justice Art Education Modules, Co-Presenters: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Richard Agbeze, Marie Huard, Eunkyung Hwang (March 22).
2025 National Art Education Association Conference, Louisville, KY, Mentorship, Collective Inquiry, and Publication on Glitch Feminist Art Pedagogy, Co-Presenter: Karen Keifer-Boyd (March 22).
2025 Feminist Perspectives on Body, Disability, and Health, Penn State University, Virtual/Visceral Worlds: An Immersive Reproductive Justice Exhibition (March 5).
2024 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Detroit, MI, Panel Chair, Emergent Threads and Current Conversations in Feminist Arts-based Research, Co-Presenters: Eunkyung Hwang, Brandi Lewis, Pin-Hsuan Tseng (November 17).
2024 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) 15 Conference, New York City, NY, Amateur Pedagogy: A Workshop on Centering Curiosity and Creation in the Humanities Classroom, Co-Presenter: Ege Altan (October 18).
2024 National Art Education Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Feminist Glitching as Pedagogy: A Physical/Virtual Exhibition Toward Reproductive Justice (April 5)
2023 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Baltimore, MD, Aesthetic Interventions: Approaches to Feminist Arts Pedagogy, Co-Presenters: Ian Danner, Eunkyung Hwang, Brandi Lewis, Pin-Hsuan Tseng (October 7).
2023 Art Education Research Institute (AERI) Annual Symposium, Doctoral Pecha Kucha Session, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Glitch Feminist Art Pedagogy: A Teacher Inquiry (October 20).
2023 Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Glitching Affect Matter(s), Co-Presenter: Karen Keifer-Boyd (October 19).
2023 Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) Conference, University of the Arts London and Virtual, Undoing Algorithmic Teaching Topographies, Co-Presenters: Karen Keifer-Boyd & John Summerson (September 22).
2023 Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) Conference, University of the Arts London and Virtual, Fostering Resistance Through Digital Cultures and Art Pedagogies: Exploring Emerging Trends, Co-Presenters: Fouz Aljameel & Ye Sul Park (September 21).
2023 International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey and Virtual, Glitches as Fractures: Theorizing a Glitch Feminist Art Pedagogy (September 8).
2023 NAEA Conference, San Antonio, TX and Virtual, Augmented Encounters: 50 Years Later: From Womanhouse 1972 to Wo/Manhouse 2022, Co-Presenter: Karen Keifer-Boyd (April 15).
2023 NAEA Conference, San Antonio, TX and Virtual, Reframing Art Education Histories and Metanarratives Through Experimental Visual Unmapping, Co-Presenters: Michelle Bae- Dimitriadis, Eunkyung Hwang, & Ye Sul Park (April 15).
2023 NAEA Research Conference, San Antonio, TX and Virtual, Participatory Mapping of Critical Encounters in Public Spheres, Co-Presenters: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Elham Hajesmaeili, & Brandi Lewis (March 17).
2022 Curriculum & Pedagogy Conference, State College, PA, Participatory Arts-Informing Critical Encounters in Public Spaces, Co-Presenters: Karen Keifer-Boyd, Fouz Aljameel, Shawna Dory, Naomie Fassal, Elham Hajesmaeili, Brandi Lewis, Keisha Oliver, Ye Sul Park, Pin- Hsuan Tseng, Catherine Wieczorek-Berkes (October 19-20).
Invited Presentations & Lectures
International
2021 International Conference on Disability Studies, Arts & Education Conference, Exhibition Opening, “Indigeneity & Disability Justice Art,” Virtual, Art-work in the Intersections: Interpreting the works of Panteha Abareshi through a Black feminist disability framework (October 9).
National
2024 NAEA Coalitions for Feminisms in Art Education (CFAE), Interventions of Feminism and DEI&B within Researching, Teaching, Artmaking and Social Networking Spaces Panel, Glitching Matters: Virtual Worldbuilding as Feminist Pedagogy, Virtual (November 2).
2024 Guest Lecture in Prof. Glynnis Reed-Conway Art Education Graduate course, Intersectionality in Visual Arts Curricula, Moore College of Art & Design (July 11).
2023 NAEA Women’s Caucus 50th Anniversary Meeting, Virtual, Glitch Feminist Pedagogy, Co- Presenter: Karen Keifer-Boyd (April 11).
2023 NAEA Conference, NAEA Women’s Caucus Meeting, Virtual, Visioning Feminist Research in Art (April 14).
2022 Women & Masks: Arts-based Research Conference, Boston University & Virtual, Panelist, Politics of Masks: Feminist Perspectives (April 24).
2022 NAEA Conference, Represented NAEA Women’s Caucus in Cross-SIG panel, What Curiosities Guide Our Research? Envisioning Future Connections Between Researchers in Social and Critical Theory, Virtual (March 4).
2021 NAEA Conference, NAEA Women’s Caucus Meeting, “Diverse Voices in Feminisms,” Virtual, This Is What a Feminist T-Shirt Looks Like: Marketplace Feminism and Visual Culture (March 4).
Regional
2023 Graduate Research in Art Education Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, A Glitch Feminist Art Pedagogy for Reproductive Justice (November 4).
The Pennsylvania State University
2024 Guest Lecture in Prof. Jill Wood WGSS 458 undergraduate course, Critical Issues in Reproduction, The Pennsylvania State University (February 14).
2023 Guest Lecture in Prof. Andrea Miller WGSS/Communications 597 graduate course, Feminist Technologies Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (November 30).
2023 Guest Lecture in Prof. Jill Wood WGSS 452 undergraduate course, Women’s Health Issues, The Pennsylvania State University (November 2).
Collaborative Research Projects as Co-Investigator
2023 Glitching Algorithmic Bias in Virtual World-Building, The Pennsylvania State University, Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd.
2022-Present Racial Justice Art Education Curriculum Development, The Pennsylvania State University, Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd.
2022-Present Wo/Manhouse Stories, Belen, New Mexico and The Pennsylvania State University, Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Keifer-Boyd.
Service
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Member of Reproductive Justice Committee (2025).
Research Assistant, Course Re-design, World Campus WGSS 106: Representing Women and Gender in Literature, Art, and Popular Cultures (Web, Asynchronous) (2023).
Graduates in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Executive Board, Treasurer (2022-2023).
Visiting Artist Workshop Coordinator, Visiting artist Sophie Sandberg Story Sharing Workshop: Art and Activism: Chalking Back Against Harassment at Penn State (April 21, 2023).
Conference Co-coordinator, Breaking Barriers: Agents of Change Conference (Hybrid) (February 23-25, 2023).
Graduates in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Executive Board, Conference Chair (2021- 2022).
[Re]Emergence: [Re]imagination, [Re]vision, and Revolution International Conference (Virtual) (February 25-26, 2022).
Art Education Program, The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Art Education Association Co-President (2021-2023).
Visiting Artist Lecture Co-coordinator, Visiting artist vanessa german lecture Love & Power and Studio/Research meetings with graduate students (April 28, 2023).
Panel Co-organizer, The New Curriculum: Decolonial Realities, Caribbean InTransit Art Journal International Conference, Presenters: Glynnis Reed-Conway, Norma Watson, Keisha Oliver (January 30, 2023).
Graduate Student Mentorship Program Co-coordinator (2021-2022).
Art Education Faculty Search Committee Member, School of Visual Arts (Spring 2022).
Service to the Profession
Artist/Educator in Residence & Arts Committee Board Member, The Print Factory, Bellefonte, PA (2024-present).
Guest Co-editor of Visual Arts Research, Volume 50, Number 2, Issue 99 (2024).
Editorial Review Board, Art Education journal (2024).
Editorial Review Board, Visual Culture and Gender journal (2024).
Invited Panelist, Undergraduate BFA Thesis Mid-Term Reviews, Pacific Northwest College of Art (2021-2022).
Invited Artist Workshops
2023 Community Zine Workshop, State College Poetry Fest, 3 Dots Gallery, State College, PA (February 11).
2023 Community Zine Workshop, The Print Factory, Bellefonte, PA (February 2).
2022 Community Zine Workshop, Woskob Gallery, State College, PA (October 7).
2022 Community Zine Workshop, 3 Dots Gallery (May 10).
2022 Zine & Xerox Transfer Workshop for Poetry & Comparative Literature students, 3 Dots Gallery (March 26).
2020 Panelist, Unlimited 2020 Artist Panel, Page Space Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art (October 30).
2018 Founding and Funding a Collective, BridgeLab Career Services, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Certifications
2021 Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching, Center for Pedagogy in Arts & Design, College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University.
Related Professional Experience
2016-2018 Co-Founder, Gallery Operator, and Curator, Killjoy Collective Gallery, Portland, OR.
2016-2018 Senior Admissions Counselor, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Professional Affiliations
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Coalition for Feminisms in Art Education (CFAE)
LGBTQ+ Interest Group
Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education
International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma (inroads)
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP)