Brief Biography

Kristin Vanderlip Taylor, EdD is an Associate Professor of Art Education at California State University, Northridge. She is National Board certified in Early/Middle Childhood Art and previously taught visual art to students in grades TK-8 in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Dr. Taylor has been a member of the California Art Education Association and the National Art Education Association since 2002. In 2022, she was awarded Outstanding Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by CAEA, and in 2017 received the NAEA Pacific Region Elementary Art Educator Award. She served as an at-large representative for the Professional Learning through Research committee (NAEA) and co-founded the MOCA PD Lab, a visual art community of practice, and the CSUN/CSULB Art Ed ColLab, a mentoring community of practice for beginning visual art teachers from CSUN and CSULB.

Dr. Taylor's research interests include: collaboration, transdisciplinary curriculum design, visual and critical literacy, and building sustainable visual art communities of practice for ongoing professional learning. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy (ELAP) from Pepperdine University (2018) and her Masters Degree in Art Education (2007), Single Subject credential in Art (2005), and Multiple Subject teaching credential (2003) from California State University, Northridge.

Research 

communities of practice social issues contemporary art education transdisciplinary learning

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