Mary Stokrocki is a professor in the School of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and affiliate faculty member with ASU’s Barrett Honors College and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. She has taught for more than 35 years, including 10 years at the middle and high school level in New York and Boston and 23 years at the university level in Ohio and Arizona. She joined ASU in 2010.
Her research centers on multicultural teaching and learning in the U.S., including Yaqui, Pima/Maricopa, Ak-Chin, Apache and Navajo reservations in Arizona, as well as internationally in the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and Turkey. The recipient of 11 grants, her most recent research focuses on visual culture studies and alternative learning contexts, such as the aesthetics of the shopping mall, preschool class in a museum, computer graphics classes, Internet sites for the homeless, and in carnivalesque settings. In 2012, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the National Chiayi University’s Department of Fine Arts at the Graduate Institute of Visual Arts. She developed a course titled “Digital Ethnography in Virtual Worlds,” which explored the educational uses of teaching and learning on Second Life in Taiwan.
Professor Stokrocki has authored seven books, more than 25 book chapters and 120 journal articles. Her awards and honors include the 2014 Distinguished Lecture Award and Address in Education (autobiography) and the 36th honoree in the History of Art Education for her ethnographic research. She has presented her work at more than 100 national and international conferences. She holds memberships or served on the board of a number of professional associations, including the American Anthropological Association, American Educational Research Association, Arizona Art Education Association, Gold Canyon Arts Council, International Art Education Association, International Society for Education through Art, National Art Education Association, New Media Consortium, Society for Visual Anthropology, Superstition Area Arts Cultural Alliance and United States Society for Education through Art.
In addition, Stokrocki consults widely, locally, nationally and internationally, including two years as a curriculum consultant in Turkey for the National Higher Education Development Project, sponsored by the World Bank.
Arts education, multicultural teaching and learning, visual culture studies, alternative learning contexts, and educational use of Second Life
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 680 | Practicum |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARE 301 | Studio Art & Human Development |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARA 311 | Art Appreciation and Human Dev |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARE 370 | Teaching Visual Culture |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARE 510 | Visual Culture Research |
ARE 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARA 311 | Art Appreciation and Human Dev |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARE 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARE 370 | Teaching Visual Culture |
ARA 484 | Internship |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARE 540 | Teaching Art/Cultural Contexts |
ARA 584 | Internship |
ARE 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 592 | Research |
ARA 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
ARE 690 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 692 | Research |
ARE 695 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 792 | Research |
ARE 795 | Continuing Registration |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARA 311 | Art Appreciation and Human Dev |
ARE 394 | Special Topics |
ARA 394 | Special Topics |
ARA 484 | Internship |
ARE 494 | Special Topics |
ARE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ARE 592 | Research |
ARE 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 598 | Special Topics |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
ARE 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 792 | Research |
ARE 795 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ARE 301 | Studio Art & Human Development |
ARA 394 | Special Topics |
ARA 484 | Internship |
ARE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARE 510 | Visual Culture Research |
ARE 525 | Research on Art Instruction |
ARA 584 | Internship |
ARE 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARA 592 | Research |
ARE 592 | Research |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
ARE 690 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 692 | Research |
ARE 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 792 | Research |
American Anthropological Association
American Educational Research Association
Arizona Art Education Association
Gold Canyon Arts Council
International Art Education Association
International Society for Education through Art
National Art Education Association
New Media Consortium
Society for Visual Anthropology
Superstition Area Arts Cultural Alliance
United States Society for Education through Art
Doctoral students
Master's students
Stokrocki has been teaching for 35 years. Ten years at the middle/high school level in New York and Boston; Five of which she was Chair of Art Department, and 23 years at the university level in Cleveland, Ohio and Tempe, Arizona.