Dr. Sally Pirie Accepted Into Craigardan Summer Visual Arts Residency Program

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Dr. Sally Pirie, a professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, was recently accepted into a Visual Arts residency and teaching fellowship program at the Craigardan organization that will begin this summer. 

Craigardan is a nonprofit arts organization and educational working farm in the Adirondack Mountains that hosts creative residencies, public courses, arts events, and community farm programs. Their Visual Arts Residency program, hosts visual and performing artists for two weeks or longer who are working on projects, research, or workshop teaching in a retreat environment. 

Dr. Pirie, who will be working on comics-based research at Craigardan, is interested in arts-based and comics-based qualitative and ethnographic research methods. She is the Principal Investigator of the Gender Moxie Project, which uses an interdisciplinary and art-informed lens to understand the experiences of transgender and gender-diverse children.