Research
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Teaching

Lynn is an artist, archivist, researcher, and educator focused on pre-service teacher training and community-based educator-caregiver relationships with a background in exhibit design and activation for small and large arts institutions.

Teaching

Narrative Formats: In lessons on storytelling and cultural representation students were able to try-out zine making among other formats. Story prompts were created by blindly selecting an animal, career, and adjective.

Arts-Integration for Primary Educators

The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH
Instructor of Record; Art & Curriculum Concepts for Teachers (ARTEDUC 3900) | Fall 2023, 2024, 2025; Spring 2024, 2025

In taking over instruction for a section of this course, I moved to lesson building as per an ongoing survey of the needs of my students. The “Arts Integration Toolkit” operates as a multi-assignment scaffolding project. Students are able to discuss real-life concerns in the classroom, explore how best to implement them in the form of a unit, and build resources for each lesson. With my addition of “mini facilitations” students, can act out and reflect on the roles, needs, and concerns of arts instruction through group-built 20-minute larts-integrated esson plans. Additional lessons included peer-to-peer resource instruction, development of curriculum maps and unit plans, and deep dives into artists and art forms using the Art21.org website as a launchpoint.

Critique Café: Students worked in groups to facilitate learning around various television episodes, readings, and videos/podcasts utilizing VoiceThread to have voice-forward critical understandings and debates.

Critique Café: Students worked in groups to facilitate learning around various television episodes, readings, and videos/podcasts utilizing VoiceThread to have voice-forward critical understandings and debates.

Student Feedback: In recent departmental student survey of instructions, feedback was positive for the course, noting its

Media Literacy in an Online Course

The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH
Instructor of Record; Criticizing/Understanding Television (ARTEDUC 2700) | Summer 2024, 2025; Spring 2026

Through critical watching, reading, discussing, creating, and reflecting, I helped learners develop skills in persuasive and ethical media critique, essential for engaged cultural citizenship—especially in the age of AI and digital storytelling. I introduced VoiceThread to the asynchronous online course to engage students differently to empower their use of voice and enhance the value of debate. This approach of thoughtful individual and group analysis prepares learners to navigate and contribute responsibly to the evolving media landscape. The CritiqueCafe’s allowed for otherwise physically separated students to group together and facilitate an online conversation (see below) between their peers. To broach the ever-concerning topic of AI in visual production, students completed a final project creating and self-critiquing a television show proposal based on the themes and terminology from the course (see below).

: Students worked in groups to facilitate learning around various television episodes, readings, and videos/podcasts utilizing VoiceThread to have voice-forward critical understandings and debates.

Collage and Printmaking: In our exploration of art methods for primary grade classrooms, students were able to learn layered collage/blackout poems and styrofoam printing techniques later expanded into full lesson plans.

Engaging & Critiquing the Arts

University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
Facilitator, Co-Instructor: JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts | 2022-2023

The JustArts Fellowship is an Arizona Arts initiative to advance equity in the arts by asking student leaders to identify challenges and propose creative solutions that increase student access to meaningful arts experiences. The program is limited to 5 awarded scholars.

Graduate Teaching Assistant; Engaging Visual Culture (ART 150B1) | Spring 2022

In this course, students engage with concepts and practices of visual culture (which includes art) as they relate to our daily lives and to our own productive and consumptive practices.

Guest Lecturer on Museum Practice; Foundations of Art & Visual Culture Education | November 2021

Invited visiting lecturer on museum practice. This lecture taught the basics of exhibition and programming in a museum space and a brief history of those practices. The course is limited to 30 undergraduate art education students.

Graduate Teaching Assistant; Special Topics: Rehearsals in Antiracism (FA 495A/595A) | Spring 2023

This special topics course prioritized unlearning and reflection through arts-based methods to foster new ecologies of well-being in antiracist work. Throughout the course, learners engaged in deep introspection and critical examination of the structures and systems perpetuating intersectional racial injustices. The course was limited to 10 undergraduate and graduate students.

Community Arts Workshops

Working through multiple spaces, I have collaborated with organizations and student groups to create arts programs through a number of topics like mental wellness, inclusion, and cultural and student identity. Through various art forms including: 3D sculptures, painting, sketching, candlemaking, and cyanotype, participants were able to make meaningful art while learning process.

Service

Professional Service & Leadership

  • Co-Web Designer (Ex-Officio), International Society for Education Through Art (InSEA) | 2025-Present

  • Editorial Assistant; Handbook on Critical Arts-Based Methods (Upcoming), Routledge | 2024-Present

  • Editorial Assistant; Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (jCRAE) | 2024-Present

  • Editorial Review Board; Art Education Journal, National Art Education Association (NAEA) | 2023-Present

  • Editorial Design Layout; Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education (jCRAE) | 2022-2024

  • Graduate Research Fellow; Museum as Prism: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Docent Training | 2022

  • Proposal Reviewer; Committee on Multiethnic Concerns, National Art Education Association Conference | 2021

  • National Art Education Association Policy Review Committee | 2021-2022

  • National Art Education Association Committee on Multiethnic Concerns, Ad-Hoc 50th Anniversary Committee | 2020-2021

University Service

  • Vice President; Ohio State University Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus | 2025-Present

  • Graduate Advisor; Women Who Serve | 2025-Present

  • Historian; Ohio State University Black Graduate and Professional Student Caucus | 2024-2025

  • Treasurer; Ohio State University Arts Administration, Education, and Policy, Arts Priori | 2023-2024

  • Graduate Council Representative; University of Arizona Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VASE) Committee | 2021-2023

  • Art & Visual Culture Education Program Representative; University of Arizona College of Fine Arts Graduate Council | 2021-2023

  • Vice President; University of Arizona Black Graduate Student Association | 2021-2022

  • University of Arizona Arizona Arts Diversity & Inclusion Committee | 2021-2022

  • Co-Chair; University of Arizona Emerging Conversations Symposium | 2021

My research expands the definition of educators to include caregivers, grounding this work in the fugitive pedagogies of othermothers. She explores how these pedagogical traditions intersect with the arts and community-based educational interventions, contributing to a ‘village’ model of support for young Black learners and those who care for them—both within and beyond the boundaries of formal schooling.

Research & Design

Research Interests

  • Critical (fugitive) pedagogies

  • Othermothering/motherwork practices

  • Community-based art education

  • Participatory action research

  • Teacher education/resources

  • Black archival practice and theory

  • Exhibit design/spatial planning

  • Community-museum partnerships

  • Dream it.

  • Digital Design: 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; NCCHR, Georgia

  • students in front of display of 5 panels talking with each other

    Exhibit/Education Design: 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; NCCHR, Georgia

  • Curatorial Assistant/Design: Austere Imaginary; Ko Gallery, Nigeria

Presentations & Publications

Invited Talks

  • (Award Lecture) Robinson, K. L. (October 2025). Manifesting the village: Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator capability [Conference session]. Art Education Research Institute, College Station, PA.

  • Robinson, K. L. (September 2025). Manifesting the village: Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator capability [Conference session]. Graduate Research in Art Education Symposium, Columbus, OH.

  • Robinson, K. L. (28 February, 2025). Black othermothering, arts-based interventions, and curriculum building toward educator efficacy [Symposium]. Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum, Columbus, OH.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

  • wilson, g. j., Robinson, K. L., Hill, I., & Summey, S. (Upcoming). Composing otherwise: Black Studies and the future of arts-based education research [Conference session]. American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, CA.

  • wilson, g. j., Banner, T., Robinson, K. L., Hill, I., & Summey, S. (Upcoming). Black Studies and Art Education: Fugitivity, Black Archives, Black Gazes, and Other Modes of Knowing [Conference session]. National Art Education Association, Chicago, IL. 

  • Sachdeva, N. M. & Robinson, K. L. (22 June, 2025). Cultural Resources and their Preservice Educator Counterparts [Conference session]. Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, Albuquerque, NM.

  • Robinson, K. L. (May 2025). Brown Sugar Paradigms Pt. I [Conference session]. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL.

  • wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Robinson, K. L., Singh, A. (April 2024). Putting Critical Theory into Practice: Centering Positionalities of the Global Majority for Art Education [Conference session]. National Art Education Association, Minneapolis, MN.

  • wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Robinson, K. L. (2023, October 27-28). Critical Arts Praxis: Moving Beyond Performativity. In Skaggs, R. (Chair), Resilient Artists, Resilient Communities [Symposium]. Barnett Symposium, Columbus, OH. 

  • Robinson, K. L., wilson, g. j., Sachdeva, N. M., Smith, K. C. (2023, October 20). Gesturing toward the Undone as Creative Provocation - Rehearsals in Antiracism pt. II [Conference session]. Imagining America National Gathering, Providence, RI.

  • Kraehe, A., wilson, g. j., Collins, T., Robinson, K. L. (February 2023). Creative Pathways to Servingness through the Arts [Webinar]. Centering Servingness Webinar Series, Tucson, AZ.

  • Robinson, K. L., Vargas, R. M., wilson, g. j., (November 2022). Embodied Encounters: Engaging Arts-Based Processes to Move Beyond Racial Conversations [Conference session]. Facing Race Conference, Phoenix, AZ. https://facingrace.raceforward.org/speaker/k-lynn-robinson 

  • Robinson, K. L. (November 2021). Decolonizing the Museum May Be, in Fact, Deeply Colonial: A Case for Radical Renaming. In K. L. Robinson & M. Alves (Chairs), Heirlooms: Growing throughlines of knowledge in the arts and education [Symposium]. University of Arizona Emerging Conversations, Virtual.

  • Carter, B., Robinson, K. L., Acuna, E., Uralov, D., Ketema, T., Gordon, M. (November 2021). The Robinhood of 3D: Democratizing volumetric capture for more accessible and innovative learning environments [Paper presentation]. International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation, Virtual.

  • Carter, B., Robinson, K. L., Acuna, E., Gordon, M. (October 2021). Volumetric Capture, Community Democratization, and the Digital Humanities [Conference Session]. Facebook Summit, Virtual.

  • Carter, B., Robinson, K. L. (August 2021). Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge through Holographic Orality: A primer on volumetric video streaming in a museum setting [Conference session]. Association of African American Museums Annual Conference, Virtual.

  • Robinson, K. L. (March 2021). Museum Multivocality through AR. In A. Coleman (Chair) Re-Imagining History: Dismantling Master Narratives of Art Education History. National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Virtual.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Robinson, K. L. (accepted for publication in 2026). Review of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Studies in Art Education. 

    Robinson, K. L. (2025). Collective actions: A response to the Whitney Museum of Art and a case for Black archival and aesthetic practices as movement building. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 42(1), 43-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/jcrae.7517.