Major | Art and Visual Culture Education
Minor | Teaching and Teacher Education
Kasey E. Power, PhD
I am an artist, educator, researcher, mentor, and student advocate whose work centers on art education, teacher development, curriculum, and educational innovation. My research and teaching are grounded in a deep care for cultivating creativity, curiosity, and meaningful learning while supporting educators as thoughtful designers of their own practice.
In my current work at the University of Florida, I teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, support emerging researchers and art educators, and explore new directions in curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher preparation. I am particularly interested in approaches that move beyond compliance-driven models of education and instead center inquiry, relationships, professional judgment, and human agency.
My current scholarship also considers how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, are reshaping teaching and learning. Across this work, I encourage educators to question established structures, examine the hidden curriculum, and imagine more responsive, creative, and human-centered possibilities for education.
Social Media &
Lesson Planning
More than ever, preservice, novice, and veteran art teachers use social media and other online resources to aid in lesson planning and curriculum development. But are all resources created equal? During dissertation research, which involved preservice art educators during their semester of student teaching, I developed a prototype application that 1) offers a usable framework from which to assess online resources, 2) guides art educators through the traits of effective lesson plans, and 3) offers downloadable lesson plans.
Teaching
Experience
Art education is a field that can impact lives from infancy to old age, both within and outside of traditional school settings. With experience teaching students from preschool to the graduate level, I've learned that the desire to learn, create, and solve problems is not only the purview of education, but of all creative endeavors in all people. Thus, my teaching experience has also been leveraged to pursue creative goals outside of the classroom, including curriculum development, marketing, branding, and small business start-up.
Powell, H., & Power, K. (in press). Dominican Republic, Wexford Ireland: Connecting the elements, exploring the unfamiliar through ephemeral (transient) cartography. In H. Powell (Ed.), Memory pedagogy. Routledge.
Powell, H., & Power, K. (in press). Explorers’ dispositions in inquiry. In H. Powell (Ed.), Memory pedagogy. Routledge.
Power, K. (2023). Lesson planning in the age of social media. Fresh Paint, 46(2), 62-65.
UPCOMING: Florida Art Educators Association — St. Petersburg, FL
Presentation | October 2026
FAEA Live! Podcast Recording: Talking with Artists, Educators, and Leaders About the State of Our Field
UPCOMING: Florida Art Educators Association — St. Petersburg, FL
Presentation | October 2026
Hosting as a Critical Literacy in Art Education
Florida Art Educators Association — St. Petersburg, FL
Presentation | October 2024
The Ethical Responsibility to Foster Studio-Based Classrooms
National Art Educators Association — San Antonio, TX
Presentation | April 2022
Lesson Planning in the Age of Social Media
Emerging Conversations Symposium — The University of Arizona
Presentation | November 2021
I Saw It, I Liked It, I Taught It: Preservice Art Teachers' Use and Transformation of Online Resources in Curriculum Development
Art Education for Social Justice Symposium Presentation—
The University of Georgia
Presentation | February 2020
Responding to the Challenge to Care: Curricular Suggestions for Social Justice Art Education (Co-Presented with Dr. Jeff Broome, Dr. Bryna Bobick, Dr. ALyssia Ruggiero, & Cindy Jesup)
American Educational Researchers Association Conference Presentation —Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presentation | April 2019
The Staying Power of Status Quo Scripts: Preservice Teachers’ Field-based Encounters with the Masculinity Narrative in Elementary School Settings (Co-Presented with Dr. Kathy Carter)
National Art Educators Association Conference Presentation — Boston, MA
Presentation | April 2019
Teaching Care and Empathy in Preservice Art Education Programs
Emerging Conversations Symposium —The University of Arizona
Presentation | November 2017
Teaching with care: Utilizing the Art Classroom to Accommodate Adolescent Depression and Anxiety